Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTaken by ICE
A young woman clings to a tree as masked men try to peel her off. The men wrench one of the woman’s arms behind her back, then stuff her into the bac…
9 months ago
Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1
More To The Story: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a…
9 months ago
Will the National Parks Survive Trump?
From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent…
9 months, 1 week ago
Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery
More To The Story: The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,00…
9 months, 1 week ago
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a docu…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act
More To The Story: The Voting Rights Act turned 60 years old this month. The landmark piece of legislation is considered one of the most effective la…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers
Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effecti…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is removing homeless encampments from around Washington, DC. The announce…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
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” cho…
9 months, 4 weeks 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…
10 months ago