Behind The Lens

Recent Episodes

Protected Speech or Anti-Semitism? A university syllabus draws scrutiny.

Posted October 10, 2025 • 00:26:04

Delaney Nolan on a Tulane program manager who was fired. Bernard Smith on "outrageous" phone call rates in jails after new FCC Chairman delays mandated...

Energy Monsters: AI data centers prompt concern about a ‘Digital Cancer Alley.’ Also, the first U.S. climate refugees have regrets

Posted October 3, 2025 • 00:26:48

Gus Bennett on Big Tech data centers that threaten more environmental and economic harm in Cancer Alley. Terry Jones on climate refugees 10 years after...

Odorless, invisible and deadly: Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to La. residents

Posted September 26, 2025 • 00:32:10

Delaney Nolan and Emily Sanders on an Exxon pipeline set to carry highly compressed carbon dioxide in St. James Parish. And Elise Plunk on a Tulane...

Ep. 283: After the Smitty’s Supply explosion, concerns for Lake Pontchartrain

Posted September 19, 2025 • 00:30:30

Reporter Delaney Nolan on environmental pollution concerns in the wake of the explosion at Smitty's Supply. [...]

Episode 282: Orleans Parish Prison after the storm ‘We’re still in here’

Posted September 5, 2025 • 00:30:04

Bernard Smith and Katy Reckdahl on the men trapped in the Orleans Parish Prison and Broad Street Bridge in the wake of the levee breaches after Hurricane...