Lean Out with Tara Henley

As I put the finishing touches on my next book, on declining trust in the media, I wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped my thinking on the media — including today’s episode. Since the election win for Donald Trump, we are seeing a renewed sense of scorn for Republican voters in parts of t

As I put the finishing touches on my next book, on declining trust in the media, I wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped my thinking on the media — including today’s episode. The period often referred to as The Great Awokening is winding down now, and we’re starting to get a better underst

In this turbulent era, for many of us there is a moment in every day when anxiety steals over us. We pause, and in that rare period of stillness, the fears surface — but sometimes, if we’re lucky, so too do the reflections and the insights. My guest on today’s program has called this interlude “the catastrophe hour,” a

Now that the dust has settled on the Canadian federal election, we can pause for a moment and assess where we are at as a country. What lessons can we take from the election results? My guest on today’s program has been polling Canadians for decades — and he says that we are now a divided nation. Darrell Bricker is the

One of the most polarizing policies of the pandemic era was the extended school closures. Critics have now been validated, with The New York Times reporting that “a growing body of research shows that pandemic school closures came at a steep cost to students” — while doing little to stop the spread of the virus. My gue

Last week, at the English-language election debate, the leaders’ press scrums were cancelled after tensions between media outlets erupted into shouting in the press room, and other confrontations. This incident is a distressing example of how polarized our press has become. But of course, we are not the first country t