Podcast Episodes

The Ballot Boogeymen

In August 2020, Guillermina Fuentes was trying to get out the vote in her small Arizona community. Outside a polling place, she handed a few absentee…

3 years, 2 months ago

Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2

In the second half of our two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), members of the Pine Ridge community put pressure on the Ca…

3 years, 2 months ago

Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1

In a two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), we expose the painful legacy of boarding schools for Native children.  

These s…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion

When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the mov…

3 years, 3 months ago

Minor League Pay

From the Frisco RoughRiders to the Dayton Dragons, minor league baseball teams are a classic American tradition. But their players are not covered by…

3 years, 3 months ago

After Ayotzinapa: Arrests and Intrigue

Eight months after Reveal’s three-part series about the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students in 2014, the government’s investigation is in hi…

3 years, 3 months ago

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDow…

3 years, 3 months ago

The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie

This episode explores two stories of fights over the right to vote. 

Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote claims to have evidence of widespread voter …

3 years, 4 months ago

American Rehab: Shadow Workforce

Picture stepping into a drug rehab. You’re looking for treatment, but instead, you get hard work for no pay. For decades, this type of rehab has quie…

3 years, 4 months ago

American Rehab: A Venomous Snake

By the end of the 1960s, Synanon was a widely respected drug rehab with a celebrated treatment program. It had intake centers and commune-style rehab…

3 years, 4 months ago