Episodes
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Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator
S1 Ep8 |Flawed research predicting remorseless teen killers led to life sentences.
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Horses: Wild, But Not Free
S1 Ep4 |Wild horses are caught in a battle between the government, ranchers and environmentalists. - Embedded Video LinkImage
How Fears Over the Measles Vaccine Took Hold
S1 Ep4 |Vaccine skepticism was fed by a discredited 1998 study which still has repercussions today - Embedded Video LinkImage
Sorry/Not Sorry | Andy Borowitz
S1 Ep4 |Andy examines the tropes and clichés politicians use to cling to power after a scandal. - Embedded Video LinkImage
The Birth of Free Agency
S1 Ep4 |Today’s superstar athletes reaping the benefits of free agency owe a debt to Curt Flood. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Trump's War Against the Press
S1 Ep4 |President Trump’s efforts to clamp down on White House leaks have echoes of Nixon. - Embedded Video LinkImage
Episode 3
S1 Ep3 |Bystander behavior; a Navy scandal; psychedelic drugs; wayward trash barge; zany theories - Embedded Video LinkImage
LSD Gets Another Look | Full Report
S1 Ep3 |Psychedelic drugs, associated with the 1960s, are now treating depression and anxiety. - Embedded Video LinkImage
She Rocked the Pentagon | Full Report
S1 Ep3 |How the 1991 Tailhook sexual assault scandal is still shaking up the military today.
About Retro Report on PBS
Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.
