Retro Report on PBS

Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past.

Episodes

  • Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator

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    Flawed research predicting remorseless teen killers led to life sentences.
  • Horses: Wild, But Not Free: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Horses: Wild, But Not Free

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    Wild horses are caught in a battle between the government, ranchers and environmentalists.
  • How Fears Over the Measles Vaccine Took Hold: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    How Fears Over the Measles Vaccine Took Hold

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    Vaccine skepticism was fed by a discredited 1998 study which still has repercussions today
  • Sorry/Not Sorry | Andy Borowitz: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Sorry/Not Sorry | Andy Borowitz

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    Andy examines the tropes and clichés politicians use to cling to power after a scandal.
  • The Birth of Free Agency: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Birth of Free Agency

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    Today’s superstar athletes reaping the benefits of free agency owe a debt to Curt Flood.
  • Trump's War Against the Press: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Trump's War Against the Press

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    President Trump’s efforts to clamp down on White House leaks have echoes of Nixon.
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    Episode 3

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    Bystander behavior; a Navy scandal; psychedelic drugs; wayward trash barge; zany theories
  • LSD Gets Another Look | Full Report: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    LSD Gets Another Look | Full Report

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    Psychedelic drugs, associated with the 1960s, are now treating depression and anxiety.
  • She Rocked the Pentagon | Full Report: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    She Rocked the Pentagon | Full Report

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    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.