Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow 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, 1 month ago
What Trump’s Tariff Shock Will Cost You
Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s Deportation Black Hole
On March 15th, federal agents rounded up more than 230 Venezuelan nationals who were then deported to El Salvador and locked up in the country’s noto…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope.
David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works…
1 year, 1 month 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, 2 months ago
She Launched “The Daily Show.” Now She’s Fighting Red State Abortion Bans.
The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead’s path to advocacy was a curvy one. She started out as a comedian, first as a stand-up and then working on Th…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Strike That Broke a Supermax Prison
At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era o…
1 year, 2 months ago
Exclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Fraud, waste, and abuse: That’s what inspectors general are tasked with investigating throughout the federal government. But in his first week in off…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s departm…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bird Flu, Measles, and Trump’s Ticking Time Bomb
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million people in the US alone. While life has returned to …
1 year, 2 months ago