Podcast Episodes
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Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time. Then, early one morning in 2008, the Black teenager died during a tra…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Great Arizona Water Grab
A Saudi-owned farm in the middle of the Arizona desert has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskanda…
2 years, 5 months ago
It's Not Easy Going Green
When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and sola…
2 years, 5 months ago
Guatemala’s War on Journalists
Reveal revisits a story produced in collaboration with a Guatemalan journalist who is now in prison. José Rubén Zamora was jailed last summer after h…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Leaks
Before Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry and Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency could spy on all of us, there w…
2 years, 6 months ago
They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare age…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Culture War Goes to College
From book bans to uproar over critical race theory, American classrooms have been on the front lines of the culture war. And there’s one state that’s…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex
“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Post-Roe Health Care Crisis
It’s been nearly one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that protected abortion rights for half a century.…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest el…
2 years, 7 months ago