Podcast Episodes

The Bitter Work Behind Sugar

Sugar is a big part of Americans’ daily diet. But who harvests some of that sweet cane?  

Reporters Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel visit Haiti…

4 years, 3 months ago

Forever Wars

Since 9/11, the power of the U.S. military has been felt around the world in the name of rooting out terrorism. But at what cost? From Fallujah in Ir…

4 years, 4 months ago

Fighting Fire with Fire

Year after year, wildfires have swept through Northern California’s wine and dairy country, threatening the region’s famed agricultural businesses. .…

4 years, 4 months ago

The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster

Sixteen-year-old Myon Burrell was sent to prison for life after a stray bullet killed an 11-year-old girl in Minneapolis in 2002. Amy Klobuchar, who …

4 years, 4 months ago

For 20 years, I saw no peace

We open with a story from Aysha, a Kabul resident in her mid-twenties, who we’ve been checking in with over the past few months. Aysha was born in Pa…

4 years, 4 months ago

Minor violations

Shelter staff have called 911 on migrant kids for minor offenses. In some cases, police have arrested, jailed and even tased those kids. 

When unacco…

4 years, 4 months ago

Juvenile (In)justice

Larissa Salazar grew up in Wyoming, and when she was in eighth grade, she got in a fight on a school bus. That snowballed into her spending 16 months…

4 years, 5 months ago

The teen reporter, the evictions and the church

Three stories from local reporters who uncovered injustice and inequality in their hometowns, from an eviction crisis in Ohio to a Hitler-quoting sta…

4 years, 5 months ago

Into the COVID ICU

Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated from medical school during the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor for her first months working at a hospital in…

4 years, 5 months ago

Baseball Strikes Out

In the early 2000s, rampant steroid use across Major League Baseball became the biggest scandal in the sport’s history. But fans didn’t want to hear …

4 years, 5 months ago