In war, the first casualty is truth — and that includes the upheaval in Portland. Just ask Nancy Rommelmann, whose pieces for Reason Magazine feel like the only neutral dispatches from the epicenter of the country’s nervous breakdown. Reporters there are subject to harassment and a bizarre set of rules designed to obfuscate bad behaviour by the agitators who appear at night to cause trouble. Legitimate social justice actions are now overshadowed by murder and arson in a city where even a pandering mayor isn’t safe.

Sometimes what we need in life is to listen to stories and there’s none more compelling than that of Tim Treadwell, the amateur naturalist killed and eaten by bears in Alaska. Nick Jans has written an Alaskan insider’s take and is still emotional about what he learned. Tim Treadwell is not who you might think he is.

Highly esteemed Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch believes the politicized handling of COVID has cost thousands of lives and he brings evidence to support that claim. Risch confirms what we’ve suspected: that many of the big “science” decisions around COVID policy and drugs are not driven by smart public health policy, but by politics, greed and hubris. COVID now has its own acceptable talking points, fuelling a narrative that undermines neutral scientific endeavour.

We explore the wild west of stock trading, now being democratized by people wanting to grow their cash during COVID lockdowns. No longer the playground of just the rich and greedy, markets are being heavily influenced by retail traders and people investing for their own portfolio. Neal Roberts from Trader TV Live explains the ups and downs of trading stocks in the most exciting digital game sweeping the continent. He also warns to be very careful.

Why do women like Ghislaine Maxwell attach themselves to creepy men? The answer may lie in the strange case of Karla Homolka, one-half of the Barbie and Ken serial killer duo who shocked the world. Stephen Williams wrote the definitive book on the case and Trish produced the most-watched television documentary. Together they unpack the psyche of female accomplices.

Warning: Discussion of suicide. Recently a Conservative Christian Professor from the University of North Carolina was found dead in his home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Mike Adams had just accepted a buyout and retirement from the school after controversial tweets launched a cancel mob at him. His death brought not sympathy but rather nasty headlines and sometimes outright glee from his critics — a sign that society is falling fast. His close friend David French is shaken by Mike Adams’ death but also by the cruelty that attended it — both before and after he pulled the trigger.

What actually happened to George Floyd the day he died? What is it like for a young black man who is wrestled to the ground and held in a choke hold by an aggressive cop? Robert Branch says it is terrifying and he is still traumatized after his experience in 2015. Branch and his lawyer, Dante Pride, won a settlement for Branch who is putting his life back together after a yearslong ordeal to expose the truth.

The unrest continues and cynical corporate America embraces radical chic while betraying the people it claims to support. Chris Arnade knows the truth. A former New York banker, he chucked it all to document the lives of poor people, both Black and white.

New York Times Editor Bari Weiss quits and drops a brutal letter describing the dysfunctional 'woke-athon' the paper has become. We’ll deep-dive into what she wrote and also speak to another target of editorial purity—the brilliant writer Meghan Daum who was kicked off the cool kids’ table for writing a book challenging narrow-minded cultural orthodoxy.

Parts of Chicago are now an urban hellscape where young black men murder each other and children die in the crossfire. Pastor Donovan Price attends unfolding crime scenes where he ministers to the living and says prayers for the dead.

In an emotional and raw interview, black tour operator Don Folden tells how he stood his ground at the Emancipation Memorial in D.C. while being screamed at by an angry mob who wanted it to tear it down. A study in dignity and grace, he understands their frustration but also that they are misguided in their knowledge of the history of the monument.

Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi discusses his bold piece on how the media is destroying itself. It’s a professional risk, but he’s so tired of woke culture corrupting the news business that he’s laying it all out.

Sometimes controversial, always brilliant, Jonathan Kay talks the fall of Ronan Farrow, journalist Twitter mobs and the meltdown of The New York Times.

Philadelphia cardiologist Dr. Anish Koka brings a brave and explosive first-hand account of why so many people died of COVID in LT care facilities and explains why much of the reporting on the crisis was actually harmful.

In a gripping interview, acclaimed forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht takes us through the 10-minute tape that shocked the nation and offers a grim analysis of how Floyd died.

Skeptic Michael Shermer’s razor sharp analysis is just what the doctor ordered for our perilous trip through COVID-land.