Podcast Episodes

How Democracy Survived the Midterm Elections

Reveal host Al Letson talks with leading academics and journalists to take the temperature of American democracy: What did we expect from the midterm…

3 years, 6 months ago

The City (Revealed)

Robin Amer of USA Today’s investigative podcast The City shares the story behind a massive illegal dump that appeared in Chicago’s North Lawndale nei…

3 years, 6 months ago

Climate Makers and Takers

Sea levels are rising – and the United States has a lot to learn from countries that are already adapting. Reporter Shola Lawal of the podcast Thresh…

3 years, 7 months ago

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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago