Radio

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

New research finds the famous tagline on political ads makes issue-oriented attacks seem more legitimate.

A history of classic trucker country, complete with playlist.

A look back at the influential history of one of the sporting world's most elite events, which has also managed to attract attention from the masses.

This one was actually a real button, too.

Inventors have been trying to find a way to silence ads since way before Spotify, Pandora and Grooveshark

Forget cellphones. The real danger from distracted driving is the car radio—according to observers in the days before Sirius, in-car DVD players, and even web browsers.

The origin of the soundbite can be traced to the 1924 U.S. presidential election, the first one ever covered heavily by a broadcast medium, radio.

In simpler times the mere presence of a home-built police scanner was lauded as a home course in law enforcement. But has Twitter killed the police radio star?