Prologue

Chris Benderev speaks with writer Georgie Codd, who went searching for someone to be the father she never had.

For more than a decade, Boris Furman has meticulously tracked the whereabouts of his family members, averaging the latitude and longitudes to arrive at “The Family Average Location.” But nobody really knows why.

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld was interested in the toll that having a wakeup-moment could have on a family, and she heard about someone who had a moment like that over a decade ago.

Host Ira Glass walks through possible next steps with a pro-life activist who worked on the Texas SB8 bill, that set a precedent for enforcement of abortion bans throughtout the country.

Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.

Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union.