Law and Border

As President Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office, producer Valerie Kipnis talks to Ukrainian soldiers on the front line who wonder about what his administration could mean for them. (14 minutes)

Editor Nancy Updike tries to make sense of this current moment by talking to a master of dark comedy, Armando Ianucci. (19 minutes)

Six million Syrians fled the country after the start of its civil war.

Stephanie Foo talks with two Army officers with very different political views about the week’s results.

Several people who just woke up on red-eye flights talk about their dreams.

Lots of people in America share actual beds, but almost never see each other; flight attendants have crash pads near airports, oil rig workers carry their own sheets and sleep in shifts in an RV.