From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

This week we seek answers to our domestic troubles by looking east to Poland,

a country wrestling with disinformation, xenophobia, and a battle over its own story.

The assumption that we had finished with those arguments

and that we'd all learned the lessons of the Second World War or whatever piece of history you want to point to was wrong.

Poland's new Holocaust speech law.

It was passed this year and it bans any claims that the country collaborated with Nazi

Germany during World War II.

Four years ago I believed that I lived in a democratic country which is in the heart of Europe.

This is not a problem that should be given to the public prosecutor, but rather to educators.

The proper answer to ignorance is education.

Okay, so these elections were won by illiberal, but we should hope and work for the future

and we should win next elections.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is out this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Since the election of Donald J. Trump, we in the United States have become accustomed to a degree of

fabulous.

I've done more for black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln.

The president's self-aggrandizement provides the framework for his alternate reality.

We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.

We're going to take a look.

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