The story of former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged sexual assault against a hotel maid has been all over the American media this week. Surprisingly, it has also been all over the French media, which normally turns a blind eye to the politico's transgressions. Not anymore, says NPR’s Paris correspondent ...

More than 900 people are estimated to have died in street protests in Syria as Bashar Al-Asad’s government cracks down on dissent. The regime has also taken its fight online, exploiting activists’ reliance on social networking sites in order to combat opposition. The EFF's Jillian York talks about the innovative ...

Last week, one of the FCC commissioners who voted in favor of the recent Comcast/NBC merger announced she was quitting her job for a new position—with Comcast. It's a clear conflict of interest. It's also not unique. Regulators routinely end up working in the industry they used to regulate. Washington ...

The federal committee created to oversee Microsoft after its antitrust settlement in 1997 disbanded this month. Brooke talks to writer and Senior FTC adviser Tim Wu talks about that case and its legacy.

Does the internet allow users to limit their interaction to like-minded people, or does access to the World Wide Web expose users to new points of view, different from their own? The question has seemingly been asked for as long as the internet has been around. In his new book ...

Morgan Spurlock's latest film is about product placement and co-promotion, financed entirely by product placement and co-promotion. Spurlock talks to Bob about his film, " Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" and about the compromises filmmakers make in order to secure Hollywood ad revenue.

Joseph Wershba, a former CBS news reporter and "60 Minutes" producer died last Saturday at the age of 90. In 1948, along with Edward R. Murrow, Wershba helped produce the CBS’s first salvo against McCarthyism. We spoke to Joe and his wife Shirley in 2005 about the film "Good Night, ...