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Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have (2021)
Is history always political? Who gets to decide? What happens when you challenge common narratives? In this episode, Throughline's Rund Abdelfatah an…
3 years, 10 months ago
Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon
At the start of the 20th century, only the most privileged could afford to go to college. Today, millions of students pursue higher ed — and owe $1.7…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Long Hot Summer (2020)
Things in the U.S. feel tense right now. Two years after a police officer killed George Floyd outside a Minneapolis corner store, videos of police vi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Throughline Presents: School Colors
School District 28 is located in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse places in the U.S.: Queens, N.Y. But the neighborhood served by this…
3 years, 10 months ago
Do Not Pass Go
There's more to Monopoly than you might think. It's one of the best-selling board games in history — despite huge economic instability, sales actuall…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Evangelical Vote (2019)
When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the door opened on one of those rare opportunities to tip the balance of the highest court in th…
3 years, 11 months ago
After Roe: A New Battlefield
The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade transformed the landscape of abortion rights overnight. For the doctors, lawyers, feminists, and others w…
3 years, 11 months ago
By Accident of Birth
In August of 1895, a ship called the SS Coptic approached the coast of Northern California. On that boat was a passenger from San Francisco, a young …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Modern White Power Movement (2020)
The recent shooting in Buffalo, New York, which authorities are investigating as a hate crime, has yet again highlighted the threat posed by domestic…
4 years ago
The Characters That Built China
Today, China is a global superpower. But less than two hundred years ago, the nation was in a state of decline. After what became known as the 'centu…
4 years ago