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Decoding the political messages in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show
10.2.2026 | 52 Min.
Plus, a last-minute addition upends the LA mayor’s race, Instagram and YouTube face accusations their algorithms are addictive, and Tesla kills its iconic models S and X in favor of…humanoid robots.
Chuck Klosterman argues football’s hold on America will fade away
06.2.2026 | 52 Min.
Plus, more candidates consider running for LA mayor after a critical Los Angeles Times story about Mayor Karen Bass, and our film critics tackle a man in love with vacuum cleaner and a BDSM “dom-com.”
“He should resign.” Councilmember Nithya Raman on LA28 chair Casey Wasserman
05.2.2026 | 52 Min.
Plus, Raman's efforts to reform LA’s so-called “mansion tax,” big layoffs hit The Washington Post, a former Los Angeles Times editor gets candid about the future of news, and the origin of KCRW’s pie contest.
Artist An-My Lê’s desert photos of starscapes, and the sublime
04.2.2026 | 52 Min.
Plus, inhumane conditions at the immigrant detention facility in the Mojave Desert, deported migrants who become targets of the cartels when they return to Mexico, and why the show Survivor endures.
LAPD won’t enforce ICE mask ban. Is it legal?
03.2.2026 | 52 Min.
Plus, the latest Epstein files include LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman, LA County reports two measles cases as an outbreak surges in South Carolina, and how to create music kids and their parents will like.