The 5 Best Long Shadow Podcast Episodes
1) Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?
After both towers of the World Trade Center were hit on September 11, 2001, first responders coordinated the largest emergency response in New York City’s history. But their heroism at Ground Zero was...Show More
2) Generation Lockdown
Raised on lockdown and active shooter drills, Gen Z has endured an onslaught of mass shootings — and emerged from them inspiring a wave of activism, a powerful gun safety movement, and hope.
3) Trailer: Long Shadow: Rise of the Far Right
The Ruby Ridge raid, the Waco siege at the Branch Davidian compound, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jan. 6 insurrection… they are all explosive moments in recent U.S. history. But connect the dots bet...Show More
4) Was there a “fifth plane” on 9/11?
After the first two hijackings, the nation’s air traffic controllers quickly and efficiently grounded thousands of planes flying to and over the continental United States. Their quick thinking is said...Show More
5) What was the target of United Airlines Flight 93?
Every defense mechanism the U.S. government had on 9/11 failed except for one: the passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93. They were on the final plane to be hijacked that day and heard ...Show More
6) The Red Pill
A toxic army of trolls goes after women in the gaming industry, giving birth to an online movement of disaffected men. This "manosphere" contributes to the resurgence of Donald Trump and a constitutio...Show More
7) Going Viral
After the twin disasters of the massacre in Myanmar and the 2016 election, social media undergoes a reckoning in the halls of Congress… until a novel virus uncorks a global pandemic and a contagion of...Show More
8) Weapons of Mass Distraction
North Korea hacks a movie studio over a screwball comedy, inspiring America’s enemies to launch cyberattacks against the U.S. To roil an election, one even unleashes a network of trolls pitting ordina...Show More
9) Enragement Equals Engagement
With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry. Over the course of a decade, its algorithm drives the world...Show More
10) The Facebook Revolution
In Egypt, a ragtag group of young activists uses social media to spark a revolution and remove a dictator from power. They credit Facebook with the fall of the regime… until the platform is turned aga...Show More