We try to tell the story of life in America through portraits of life on four different corners, in four different states across the nation.
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We want to believe our lives can be changed by the ideas contained in a book.
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People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it.
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It’s the late 1960s, and a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death with the new science of cryonics. But freezing dead people isn’t easy. And apologizing for the mistakes you make along the way? Even harder.
Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering — are they right?
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One family faces the Trump administration’s ban on trans people serving in the military, and responds with a surprising secret weapon.
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Regular people trapped inside Greek myths.
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We spend an hour in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, behind and desperate, with people trying any damn thing they can think of.
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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.
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Back in the 1950s, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, federal officials sat down and pondered what American life would actually look like after an atomic attack. They faced a slew of practical questions like: Who would count the dead and