Since the collapse of coal, Eastern Kentucky has lived through a procession of supposed revivals. Each new idea was treated as something close to salvation. We spent four days driving across the state and it became clear that things like crypto mining and AI data centers may not offer a break with history – just a continuation of it.

Earlier this month, a photo of former national security advisor Mike Waltz sneaking a peek at his phone during a Cabinet meeting went viral. Micah Lee explains how that moment exposed a massive security flaw – and a possible backdoor into government chats.

Today, a first installment of a five part series we’re doing 1A, we call CyberMonday. We take dive into one of our Click Here episodes and take calls from listeners. The first installment: DOGE is vacuuming up federal data and using it in ways that no one ever has before, with very little oversight.

Radio Free Asia has broken news on everything from a mystery illness in Wuhan to Uighur detentions in northwest China. Now it is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. We speak with Bay Fang, RFA’s president, about its battle to survive.

The Trump administration is trying to defund Radio Free Europe… a kind of megaphone for democracy that’s been broadcasting since the Cold War. RFE Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva spent months in a Russian prison because of her work for the station and now she worries about what will fill the void, if it is silenced.

Military decisions used to take months — maybe even years. Cyberwarfare decisions can happen in milliseconds. Lt. General Charlie "Tuna" Moore, former deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, explains how soldiers without cyber skills are already a step behind.

In late 2023, Nick Lawler got a call from someone claiming to be an FBI agent. The man said that the utility Nick ran in Littleton, Massachusetts, was the target of an elaborate, international hacking operation. It set off an unlikely series of events that involved a small community, Chinese state hackers and the quiet threat hiding in our most basic infrastructure.

Meet Mando: an IT guy by day, cybercrime fighter by night. And his mentor? One of the most prolific data thieves ever. Together, they’re rewriting the rules of digital justice.