Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Bass, Raman trade barbs throughout a testy mayoral debate
20/08/2026 | 51min
Plus, their plans for homelessness and housing; a young woman diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis finds relief in weightlifting, our weekend film reviews, and Evan Kleiman’s heaven on Earth.
Why Pico-Robertson’s Orthodox Jews are scootering on Shabbat
19/08/2026 | 52min
Plus, why polling missed the mark this primary season. A promising potential skin cancer vaccine. And a new biography of Howard Zinn looks at how A People’s History of the United States became a bestseller.
Buss vs. Buss: Spicy sibling dispute over Lakers sale
18/08/2026 | 52min
Plus, LA’s jazz version of the disastrous Fyre Festival, political commentator and feminist Molly Jong-Fast on why she wrote about her facelift, and World War II internment of Japanese-Americans as told in a new novel.
Meta faces $1.4 trillion reckoning in ‘tobacco moment’ lawsuit
17/08/2026 | 34min
Plus, how evangelical Christians’ embrace of President Trump is costing them young worshipers, and longtime Dodgers pitcher Tommy John has died. He’s the namesake of a now-common surgical procedure.
Air Force One switcheroo a ‘Russian nesting doll of scandal’
13/08/2026 | 52min
Plus, a new study finds people really don’t like it when other people use GLP-1s to lose weight, our weekend movie reviews, and breakfast burritos do’s and don’ts with Evan Kleiman.