Tonya Mosley
Stories
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Arts & Life
'White Robes and Broken Badges' exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan
Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped foil a plot to assassinate then Sen. Barack Obama. Moore explains how hate groups are growing.
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Arts & Life
'Sing Sing' offers a glimpse at life behind bars -- and the journey towards redemption
Filmmaker Greg Kwedar and formerly incarcerated actor Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin discuss their new film about the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program founded at Sing Sing prison.
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Arts & Life
Heat, flash floods and bandits: Migrants risk it all on the treacherous Darién Gap
Each year, nearly half a million migrants cross the perilous stretch of jungle between South and Central America. Pulitzer Prize-winning Atlantic reporter Caitlin Dickerson made the harrowing journey.
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Arts & Life
From 'E.T.' to 'Blade Runner,' how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever
In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other. In The Future Was Now, Chris Nashawaty chronicles how those movies shaped the genre and the movie industry.
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Arts & Life
Expert on dictators warns: Don't lose hope -- that's what they want
Autocracy, Inc. author Anne Applebaum says that today’s dictators — including Putin and Xi — are working together in a global fight to dismantle democracy, and Trump is borrowing from their playbook.
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Arts & Life
Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh'
Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household within an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. The title of his latest memoir comes from the Yiddish word for "yuck."
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Arts & Life
Filmmakers profile America's economically lost generation in 'Two American Families'
FRONTLINE documentarians Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes spent decades following two working-class families who lost well-paying manufacturing jobs and then struggled to regain their way of life.
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Politics
Understanding the resurgence of jobs in America's 'left behind' counties
David Madland of the Center for American Progress says new, “good” jobs are on the rise, but many of the workers don’t realize it’s a result of Biden’s new industrial policies.
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Arts & Life
Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores wealth and family trauma in 'Long Island Compromise'
Brodesser-Akner's novel centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman, and the impact, decades later, on his grown children. Her previous book is Fleishman Is In Trouble.
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Arts & Life
A member of the 'T-Shirt Swim Club' chronicles life as 'the funny fat kid'
Comedy writer Ian Karmel has been making fun of his own body since he was a kid. He wrote T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People along with his sister.