Podcast Episodes

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” chopped salad kit with poppy seeds. When she went to …

Published on 1 month ago

Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.

In the last few months, widespread starvation has gripped the Gaza Strip. United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza, home to…

Published on 1 month, 1 week 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 and Prevention say this leads to the best outcomes…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Bible Says So…or Does It?

Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But his years in graduate school also taught him that the way scholars talk abo…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump’s New World (Dis)order

During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad.

Once in office, he started talk…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”

Just a few years ago, historian and activist Dr. Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, Kendi became one of the leading voices on racism in America—…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals

In April 2024, medical staff testified before Louisiana’s House Health and Welfare Committee about just how bad things had gotten at the Glenwood Regional Medical Center. 

The West Monroe hospital had…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods

David Sirota is a journalist, former speechwriter to Bernie Sanders, and co-writer of the Oscar-nominated movie Don’t Look Up, about the threat of climate change. On this week’s More To The Story, Si…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

We Regret to Inform You

Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially in California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95 percent of police departments in the state and o…

Published on 2 months ago

Is AI Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear Disaster?

Earlier this year, Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that its experts were moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight. The hands have been mov…

Published on 2 months ago