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Back to SearchThe 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
American Rehab: A Desperate Call
Reporter Shoshana Walter gets a message from a stranger: Penny Rawlings has just read one of Walter’s stories about Cenikor, a drug rehab with a faci…
3 years, 9 months ago
Afghanistan's Recognition Problem
There isn’t a single country in the world that recognizes the Taliban as a legitimate government. And neither do many Afghans. One year after the U.S…
3 years, 9 months ago
My Neighbor, the Suspected War Criminal
In July, a popular uprising in Sri Lanka forced the country’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to step down and flee the country. Rajapaksa is accused …
3 years, 10 months ago
No Retreat: The Dangers of Stand Your Ground
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitte…
3 years, 10 months ago
Inside the Global Fight for White Power
From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups that stretches around the world. The reporting tea…
3 years, 10 months ago
All the President’s Pardons
When he was president, Donald Trump used the pardon power to help friends and political allies. Now we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 committee hearings …
3 years, 10 months ago
Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a novel form of currency that bypasses banks, credit card companies and governments. But as Elizabeth Shogren reports, the process of crea…
3 years, 10 months ago