Went long for PCHH today, as MICHAEL rolls into theaters and attempts to do a friction-free reset on the legacy of an artist who was my very first and most intense pop cultural obsession. This was a tough but rewarding project to work on: www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

Reupping for the post-Friday crowd. Here there be premise spoilers, as well as the increasingly evergreen plea to directors (and Zendaya herself) to LET ZENDAYA'S CHARACTERS BE BLACK ONSCREEN!* *Casting a black actor as one of her parents to show up and say a handful of lines is not enough!

Had so much fun talking about my love of the Olympics with Olympics agnostic Glen Weldon and actual Olympics reporter Rachel Treisman, who was kind enough to make room in her very busy Milan schedule to sit in with us.

Wrote about Tyra Banks performing something like "accountability" in the new Netflix docuseries, and how the only real way this occurs has less to do with what *she* says than what everyone else involved with the show says in contrast/rebuttal to her: www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...

It was a thrill to team up with our friends and colleagues at It's Been a Minute to unpack the Super Bowl halftime show, and Bad Bunny's joy as an act of resistance: www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...

At the start of every year, I write a column for NPR trying to predict big media trends. Must say, I have never written a more pessimistic column w/one shining hope: Today's media consumers have more power than they realize, and they are using it. READ: https://loom.ly/0NqWH54