The hallway scene from 2005 film Three Times

At some point last year I watched Three Times, a 2005 film directed by the great Hou Hsiao-hsien; I was instantly in love, and this scene captures a lot of reasons why.

Global economic collapse, as recorded for This American Life

As an individual radio producer directly creating content—not as a team leader or executive or whatever other roles he may assume in the future—it seems likely that Alex Blumberg's coverage of the 2008 financial crisis will be looked at as his crowning achievement. I think this clip is