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887: Two Is One, One Is None!
3w agoTap to summarizeOne family faces the Trump administration’s ban on trans people serving in the military, and responds with a surprising secret weapon.
Transcribe →886: Blackout
May 1Tap to summarizeSince the war began in Iran, we've heard very little from people inside the country — and there's a reason for that. The entire country has been under an internet blackout. We worked with reporters Roxana Saberi and Fatemeh Jamalpour to get voice memos out of the country. Even though it was dangerous and difficult, people wanted to be heard.
Transcribe →885: Bless This Mess
Apr 10Tap to summarizeAt a time when the U.S. government is trying to make American history tidier, we try to learn from the mess. Including the untold, messy story of Paul and Essie Robeson.
Transcribe →884: The Idiot
Mar 27Tap to summarizeM. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at Serial Productions—who invented the true-crime podcast more than a decade ago—and from The New York Times.
Transcribe →883: Call Your Parents
Mar 20Tap to summarizeIn the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.
Transcribe →882: Give a Little Whistle
Mar 6Tap to summarizeTwo lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
Transcribe →881: I Want What I Want
Feb 20Tap to summarizePeople deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
Transcribe →880: What Is Your Emergency?
Jan 30Tap to summarize911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
Transcribe →879: A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a Bar
Jan 16Tap to summarizeWhen a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway? A group of Syrian comedians test the limits of their newfound freedom, a year after the fall of the brutal Assad regime.
Transcribe →878: New Lore Drop
Jan 9Tap to summarizePeople discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
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