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What Makes Us Free?

What Makes Us Free?



What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might feel like a squishy term that's hard to define and un…


Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Does America Need a Hero?

Does America Need a Hero?



Captain America: an all-American superhero. Clad in red, white, and blue, he carries only a shield. And he fights only when he must. When it's right.

But what happens when what's right isn't so clear?…


Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Iran and the U.S., Part Three: Soleimani's Iran

Iran and the U.S., Part Three: Soleimani's Iran



The Iran-Iraq war, 9/11, and the story of Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani, from his rise to power, to his assassination, by the U.S., to the power his legacy wields now.

This epis…


Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Iran and the U.S., Part Two: Rules of Engagement

Iran and the U.S., Part Two: Rules of Engagement



Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the fraught moment we're in today.

This episode originally ran …


Published on 2 months ago

What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows

What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows


Episode 348


The Supreme Court is issuing its final decisions of the term this month. But it's been extraordinarily active since January, in part because the Trump administration has submitted over a dozen emerge…


Published on 2 months ago

Iran and the U.S., Part One: Four Days in August

Iran and the U.S., Part One: Four Days in August



The U.S. and Iran have had a tense relationship for decades — but when did that begin? This week, we feature our very first episode about an event from August 1953 — when the CIA helped to overthrow …


Published on 2 months ago

Abortion Before Roe

Abortion Before Roe



Abortion wasn't always controversial. In fact, in colonial America it would have been considered a fairly common practice: a private decision made by women, and aided mostly by midwives. But in the m…


Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The First Department of Education

The First Department of Education


Episode 346


Whose job is it to educate Americans? Congress created the first Department of Education just after the Civil War as a way to help reunify a broken country. A year later, it was basically shut down. …


Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Woman Behind The New Deal

The Woman Behind The New Deal



From Social Security and the minimum wage to exit signs and fire escapes, Frances Perkins transformed how people in the U.S. lived and worked. Today on the show: how a middle class do-gooder became o…


Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

We the People: Search and Seizure

We the People: Search and Seizure


Episode 344


The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable? That question has fueled a century's worth of court rulings that…


Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago





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