From sick children in a Texas detention center.

Outbreaks of scabies, shingles, and chicken pox were spreading among children who were being held in cramped cells.

To a billionaire's alleged pedophile ring.

Epstein paid underage girls as young as 14 to massage him.

We are paralyzed by the news that addicts us.

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

I'm Brooke Gladstone, and we offer options to paralysis.

We hear about conspiracy theorists who live in the optimism of their fantasy.

At the end of the day, the bad guys are going to go to jail,

and the president is not a multifully accused sex offender

himself, but a true and noble hero.

And climate scientists for whom knowing too much is a burden.

I veer on the side of grief right now as I'm talking to you.

I can feel this compression in my chest.

And some wisdom on the art of doing nothing after this.

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

Bob Garfield is out. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This week, we came up for air after the eviction series and the money show to review

the stories we hadn't covered, among them the malignant neglect of the most vulnerable of children

at the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas, and the chronicle of an alleged, sordid, squalid rape

committed by our commander-in-chief.

And we started to feel a little numb. And that obviously isn't good for any of us, or for the

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