Click Here (Radio Show)

This week on Click Here: the propaganda you don’t really notice – at least not at first. It doesn’t come in loud or obvious. Instead, it just… blends in. A look at how it works – and how it can start to feel normal before you even realize it’s there.

Ownership used to feel simple: you buy it, it’s yours. Not anymore. In the digital age, companies can lock down what we own, change it after purchase, and even train AI on our work without asking. So what does ownership mean if we don’t control it?

We still talk about space as if it’s silent. Empty. But it isn’t anymore. It’s starting to feel a lot like Earth — crowded, competitive… a little chaotic. This week, we follow a fragile lunar lander that paved the way for the Artemis II mission, trace the growing cloud of debris circling above us… and ask what happens when the systems we depend on — GPS, communications, the invisible infrastructure of daily life — have to survive in that kind of congestion.

AI doesn’t just analyze the world anymore – it reflects us back to ourselves. Three stories about what happens when machines start to recognize our thoughts, our desires, and even our emotions — and what that reflection reveals – not just about technology… but about us.

In much of America, being offline means being left out. Yet millions still live in places where reliable internet never arrived. This hour, we explore why the digital divide persists—and what it will take to finally close it.

This week: North Korea is one of the most isolated countries on earth. And yet it’s producing some of the most sophisticated hackers in the world. And here’s the unsettling part: If you’ve hired a remote IT worker recently, there’s a chance they weren’t who they said they were. For the hour, we look at how the Hermit Kingdom is striking back.

This week: the internet goes dark in Iran. A social media pioneer disappears in China. And a Syrian activist learns that exile doesn’t always mean escape. Three stories about how governments control the narrative… by controlling what the world is allowed to see.

Judgment, empathy, faith — once the essence of being human — are increasingly becoming problems for software to solve. This week, we examine what happens when technology takes on our most moral work: preaching with compassion, guiding conscience, and even helping decide who lives and who dies.

Ransomware once felt random. Now it feels organized. This week on Click Here, we trace how cybercrime turned corporate — from a Texas attack that rippled outward, to the private chats of a top ransomware gang, to a hacker on the FBI’s radar.

Today’s crime scene evidence isn’t always physical. Sometimes it lives online – in networks, on servers, in code. And the thing about digital clues.

We imagine space as endless and untouchable. But the truth is, it’s starting to feel more like us: bustling, inventive, and sometimes a little mess.

History and technology have always favored the people who figure out how to slip through the cracks. This week: How ordinary people outsmart systems that have stopped working… and find new ways to keep us connected.

We were promised a hands-free future — cars that drive themselves, think for us, and even fix their own mistakes. But when software is behind the wheel, responsibility gets harder to pin down. This week, Volvo’s near-miss, a car hacker’s warning, and a philosopher’s take on blame in the age of automation.

Behind the headlines about ICE raids is a largely unseen technological system—one that shapes who gets found, followed, and detained. This hour, we look at the tools ICE relies on to track immigrants, and the unexpected ways advocates and volunteers are turning technology back on the agency itself. From ankle monitors to crowdsourced alerts, it’s a story about code, surveillance, and the quiet power of watching the watchers.

What if nature isn’t silent — we just didn’t know how to listen? This hour, Dina Temple-Raston explores AI trained to hear whale conversations, a viral forecast that reminded us why humans still matter, and a new way of thinking about how much power smart machines really need