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Mr. Rogers and the Fight for Public Media

On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday, we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life...

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Mr. Rogers and the Fight for Public Media

On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday, we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life...

19.03.2026 4

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Exploding Pintos, Imploding Politics: Celebrating 50 Years of Fearless Journalism

Fifty years ago, in a small San Francisco office above a fast-food restaurant, a handful of plucky journalists started a new magazine. It was a time...

19.03.2026 5

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The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston

In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital...

14.03.2026 20

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How RFK Jr. is Dismantling America’s Health Policies

The new food pyramid says it all. In January, the federal government released updated dietary guidelines for Americans that reimagine the pyramid by...

11.03.2026 7

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The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air

Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors...

07.03.2026 20

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Iran, the US, and the Making of a New Middle East

US and Israeli military strikes against Iran that killed several of the country’s top officials, including longtime supreme leader Ayatollah Ali...

04.03.2026 5

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Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right

The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth...

28.02.2026 10

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Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”

Just a few years ago, historian and activist Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, he became one...

25.02.2026 10

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As the Trump Administration Erases Black History, These Writers Are Keeping It Alive

One of the unmistakable throughlines of the second Trump administration is how it’s overhauling policies that directly affect African Americans,...

21.02.2026 10

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The Man Who Taught Nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr.

Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist...

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Taken by ICE

Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She’s a rising star in the city who was nominated for a James Beard...

16.02.2026 10

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How Project 2025 Is Reshaping Our Country

During the 2024 presidential campaign, a conservative playbook emerged. Created by the Heritage Foundation, this 900-plus-page document was a roadmap...

11.02.2026 8

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How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back

In a Minnesota town outside the Twin Cities, Emily is a nurse who treats many immigrant patients. She can’t locate a patient who just had a test...

07.02.2026 10

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Bad Bunny, Billionaires, and the Business of Sports

From financial scandals to transgender rights, DEI, and Bad Bunny performing in this weekend’s Super Bowl, there’s no shortage of sports stories...

04.02.2026 10

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How Trumpism Is Trickling Down to Your Town

Donica Brady lost her job after the Trump administration cut grant funding to bring solar power across the country, including to tribal nations. She...

31.01.2026 9

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He Helped Build the Religious Right. Now He’s Fighting ICE.

On January 24, a US Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis after he was held down by multiple federal...

28.01.2026 10

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How Sports Became a Battleground Over Trans Rights

During an NCAA women’s swimming championship in March 2022, two seniors tied for fifth place. The race was unremarkable except for one fact: One of...

24.01.2026 9

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How ICE Became Trump’s Very Own Paramilitary Force

Over the last few weeks, Minneapolis has looked like a city under siege. The Trump administration has sent roughly 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota...

21.01.2026 20

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A Dictator Deposed—What Now for Venezuela?

Journalist Mariana Zúñiga woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of explosions and military planes in Caracas, Venezuela. Her WhatsApp...

17.01.2026 8

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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...

10.01.2026 10

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What Trump’s Venezuela Attack Means for the World

Last week, US forces entered Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a nighttime raid. On Monday, they were...

07.01.2026 10

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The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug

In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into...

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How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist

Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, he wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream...

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A Decade of Reveal

The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an...

27.12.2025 10

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The Bible Says So…or Does It?

Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But the years he spent in...

24.12.2025 10

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Fancy Galleries, Fake Art

In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another–works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy...

20.12.2025 10

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Lessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago

Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour. “Operation Midway Blitz” started in September and, for...

13.12.2025 40

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Trump’s Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power

The second Trump administration has made tearing down parts of the federal government a priority. And some of those efforts have been literal. In...

10.12.2025 6

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The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear

Earlier this fall, hundreds of activists from all over the world crowded onto several dozen boats and set sail for Gaza. Their goal: Break through...

06.12.2025 10

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One on One With Trump’s Black MAGA Pastor

Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in President Donald Trump’s orbit. It all started last summer when...

03.12.2025 8

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Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers

In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the...

29.11.2025 10

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In Rural America, Public Radio Saves Lives

When a typhoon hit Alaska, public radio station KYUK was on the air, broadcasting critical information about conditions, evacuations, and search and...

22.11.2025 10

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Why America Is Obsessed With True Crime

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a street in New York City. He was convicted of murder several years later and given the maximum sentence—25...

19.11.2025 6

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In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons

Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault...

15.11.2025 20

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Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them.

About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in part because executions have been on the decline in the US. But...

12.11.2025 8

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The Deputies Who Tortured a Mississippi County

When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s...

08.11.2025 10

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I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.

Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How...

05.11.2025 8

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An Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished

In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes...

01.11.2025 10

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America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash.

If you had to describe the last decade or so of political life in America, the list would likely include the following: The Black Lives Matter...

29.10.2025 7

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A Midnight Phone Call. A Missing Movie. Decades of Questions.

Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, contact information, the misdeeds people have tried...

25.10.2025 10

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Al Letson at No Kings: Hope, Fury, and Inflatables

On October 18, roughly 2,700 No Kings demonstrations took place around the US. Organizers estimated that 7 million protesters came out to denounce...

22.10.2025 5

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Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire

In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for...

18.10.2025 7

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How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist

Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, he wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream...

15.10.2025 7

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Immigrants on the Line

Mackenson Remy didn’t plan to bypass security when he drove into the parking lot of a factory in Greeley, Colorado. He’d never been there before....

11.10.2025 6

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The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy

OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to...

08.10.2025 4

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So You Don’t Understand Crypto. Buckle Up.

The growth of crypto—decentralized digital currency that doesn’t rely on the backing of a bank or government—is one of the most transformative...

01.10.2025 5

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The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin: Part 1

Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the...

30.09.2025 10

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Baltimore Mayor to Trump: Don’t Send Your Troops

When Brandon Scott took office in late 2020 as one of the youngest mayors in Baltimore’s history, he pledged to reduce the number of homicides and...

24.09.2025 6

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Kids Under Fire in Gaza

When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking...

20.09.2025 4

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