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    620: To Be Real

    Jul 14, 2017
    Most of the time, we show the world a pretty superficial version of ourselves. "How about that weather?" But this week—people who try to go deeper, to get to something real, in some unexpected places: war, magic and porn.

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    621: Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville

    Jul 21, 2017
    This week we look at two different towns grappling with a question the country is trying to make sense of – who do we let in? One town has immigrants that became the focus of national news. The other, a small town in Alaska, hardly has any immigrants at all.

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    Jul 28, 2017
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