Podcast Episodes

Your Retirement Investments Are Probably Fueling Climate Change

Reveal reporter Jonathan Jones was working on a story about a massive coal plant expansion in Montana when he wondered who was bankrolling the projec…

1 year, 3 months ago

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” cho…

1 year, 4 months ago

They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.

Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control …

1 year, 4 months ago

A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided

In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a docu…

1 year, 4 months ago

The COVID Tracking Project Part 3

At the height of the pandemic, COVID-19 was talked about as “the great equalizer,” an idea touted by celebrities and politicians from Madonna to then…

1 year, 4 months ago

The COVID Tracking Project Part 2

In March 2020, health care technologist Amy Gleason had a daunting task ahead of her. She was a new member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force’…

1 year, 5 months ago

The COVID Tracking Project Part 1

The United States has 4% of the world’s population but more than 16% of COVID-19 deaths. 

Back in February 2020, reporters Rob Meyer and Alexis Madrig…

1 year, 5 months ago

The Churn

Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop: emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around S…

1 year, 5 months ago

Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church

Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting…

1 year, 5 months ago

How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals

When the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department in California wanted to purchase new firearms, it sold its used ones to help cover the cost. The old …

1 year, 5 months ago