Cited is no more. We had a great run — over 100 episodes of one sort or another, major awards, and stories we are really proud of — but it’s time to move on. Still, Cited’s legacy lives on through the new projects our team makes, including Crac

Darts and Letters: Katichisms

Dec 24th, 2020 1h 17m

***This concludes our run of playing Darts and Letters on Cited. You will see the occasional episode cross-posted, but not each and every week. So now, if you’ve been listening to Darts and Letters here, it ends! You’ve got to subscribe to the

Darts and Letters: Prison Notebooks

Dec 20th, 2020 1h 1m

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can als

Darts and Letters: The Conquest of Bread

Dec 12th, 2020 1h 17m

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixi

Darts and Letters: Pew Research Center

Dec 4th, 2020 1h 31m

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them,

Darts and Letters: Trump, interrupted

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 18m

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today. We’re now up on all the places.*** We can breathe a sigh of relief with Biden’s victory, but it ain’

Introducing: Darts and Letters

Nov 18th, 2020 1h 15m

Introducing Darts and Letters, a show about intellectuals and the work that they do. But it’s not just for the Ivy crowd, it’s for everyone. Even people who hack darts, and people who wouldn’t be caught dead with a New Yorker tote bag. If you l

America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)

Aug 8th, 2020 57m 10s

Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut d

#8: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)

Jul 30th, 2020 50m 49s

Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. Here, the official history is one of scientific achievem

Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

Jul 27th, 2020 1h 16m

The phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of the WW1 and the Spanish Flu. But, as with the Spanish Flu, “returning to normalcy” …

The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)

Jul 16th, 2020 47m 38s

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addict

Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries

Jul 8th, 2020 53m 41s

Our whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. For some reason, the political vision is so curtailed here. Where is the manifesto for a new system? …

The Poison Paradigm

Jul 3rd, 2020 55m 48s

On a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in our food packaging, being dumped into our lakes and sewers, and in countless other

Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats

Jun 25th, 2020 1h 7m

There’s another coronavirus. This one, causing horrific swelling in cats, even killing them. Gilead Pharmacueticals might have a drug that can cure this feline coronavirus. Yet, they’re not sharing that drug, possibly because they’re scared

The Tamiflu Trials

Jun 17th, 2020 58m 51s

Medical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra, Kevzara, Favipiravir, the list goes on. They better pick the right one; because billions of dollar

What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide? (Rebroadcast with Update)

Jun 12th, 2020 57m 26s

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, millions of protesters around the world have marched against racism and police violence.In Canada, we know that Indigenous and Black bodies are incarcerated at far higher rates than their

Secondary Symptoms #5: I Can’t Breathe

Jun 6th, 2020 1h 1m

The brutal public lynching of George Floyd has sparked a rebellion against police violence and systematic racism. The mostly peaceful protests are courageously rising up, while the police respond with unrelenting force. This all-out war agai

The Battle of Buxton (Rebroadcast)

May 27th, 2020 30m 17s

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, o

Secondary Symptoms #4: The Covid Kings

May 23rd, 2020 56m 36s

This week, we put the pieces together and solve a different kind of mystery at the heart of Tiger King.I liked the show so much because it felt like the escapism I needed during a brutal pandemic. But actually, …

Made of Corn

May 20th, 2020 42m 40s

When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino groups took to the streets to protect their cultural heritage, setting off a 20-year legal saga.

Modifying Maize

May 13th, 2020 53m 15s

How the accidental finding of genetically modified corn in the highlands of Mexico set off a twenty-year battle over scientific methods, academic freedom, Indigenous rights, environmental law and international trade. Part one of two.

Secondary Symptoms #3: Pandemic Amnesia

May 7th, 2020 54m 33s

Last time we opened up too fast, we paid dearly. There were celebratory parades when Americans thought the 1918 Spanish Flu was over and done with. Unfortunately, the second wave was even worse.So this week on Secondary Symptoms, the …

The Pavillion

May 6th, 2020 52m 50s

Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tal

#3: The Pavilion

May 6th, 2020 52m 50s

Repeat After Me

May 5th, 2020 57m 47s

In 2011, an American psychologist named Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology.