Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

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The Hot Mess Express Spectacular!

We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock

Call for Anniversary Stories

Debi Thomas with Leslie Gray Streeter

Sinéad O'Connor with Allyson McCabe

What Even Is Justice? with Amanda Knox

Juvenile "Justice" with Josie Duffy Rice

Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman

Spring Tour Announcement!

Napster with Niko Stratis

Karen Carpenter Part 2 with Carolyn Kendrick

Valentine's Show A Go-Go Livestream announcement!

Trailer: Unreformed

Karen Carpenter Part 1 with Carolyn Kendrick

Baby Jessica with Blair Braverman

Beanie Babies with Jamie Loftus

Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman

The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth

Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman

Your Abortion Stories

Online Shopping with Amanda Mull

We’ll be back next week! (And a tour update!)

Hunting Serial Killers with Michael Hobbes

The Donner Party with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Henry Lee Lucas with Rachel Monroe

Porn Wars with Nona Willis Aronowitz

Eugenics with Eric Michael Garcia

West Coast Tour Announcement

Go Ask Alice Part 3 with Rick Emerson and Carmen Maria Machado

Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado

Martha Stewart with Sarah Archer

The Dyatlov Pass Incident with Blair Braverman

The Prison Boom with Shannon Heffernan

Go Ask Alice Part 1 with Carmen Maria Machado

Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz

How Email Took Over the World with Anne Helen Petersen

Juliet's Balcony with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Ronald Reagan and "The Welfare Queen" with Laci Mosley

Bonus: Groundhog Day with Josh Gondelman

CSI: Junk Science with Josie Duffy Rice

Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 3 with Jamie Loftus

Tom Cruise on Oprah’s couch with Willa Paskin

Talking Tammy Faye Bakker with Jessica Chastain

Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 2 with Jamie Loftus

Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 1 with Jamie Loftus

Reconstruction with Jamelle Bouie

True Crime with Emma Berquist

Ed and Lorraine Warren with Jamie Loftus

Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz

Mike Lives in a Downtown Hotel

Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco

The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

Re-Release: Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown

The O.J. Simpson Trial: Runaway Grand Jury

Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (The Debunking!)

Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 3)

Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 2)

Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 1)

Cancel Culture

The Chicks vs. The Iraq War

"Political Correctness"

The O.J. Simpson Trial: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. F. Lee Bailey

Vanessa Williams Part 2: Saving The Best For Last

Bonus: Dr. Oz

Vanessa Williams Part 1: Becoming Miss America

Bonus: "The Dark Knight"

The O.J. Simpson Trial: The DeLorean Detour

Tipper Gore vs. Heavy Metal: The Hearing

Tipper Gore vs. Heavy Metal: The Case Against "Porn Rock"

The Anti-Vaccine Movement

The O.J. Simpson Trial: The Arraignmaker

Shannon Faulkner & Sex Discrimination at The Citadel

The O.J. Simpson Trial: My Fair Paula

The O.J. Simpson Trial: Paula Escapes From L.A.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Losing Relatives to Fox News

The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 2)

The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 1)

Bonus: The "Twinkie Defense"

The Electoral College

Princess Diana Part 5: The Crash

Princess Diana Part 4: The Divorce

Halloween Re-Release: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Bonus: Why Are Dads on "Terminator 2"

Bonus: The President's Physical Fitness Test

Halloween Special: Creepy Encounters

Princess Diana Part 3: The Affairs

Princess Diana Part 2: The Wedding

Princess Diana Part 1: The Courtship

Killer Clowns

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Part 2: The Truth

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Part 1: The Lie

Deep Dive Week 4: Nancy Grace v. The Constitution

Bonus Episode! Sarah’s New Podcast “Why Are Dads”

The Stepford Wives

Wayfair and Human Trafficking Statistics

Disco Demolition Night

Murder

Deep Dive Week 3: Nancy Grace v. The Jury

Bonus Episode! Sarah and Mike on "The Feminist Present" Podcast

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Latest episode: Mon May 29 2023