At 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.
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What happens when a new guy comes on the scene and changes the way everyone relates to each other?
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M. 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
In 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.
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Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight.
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Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
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Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
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People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
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Kids using perfectly logical arguments and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
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