Wannabes Six

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.

David Kestenbaum desperately wants to set the record straight for everybody about whether aliens regularly visit earth.

Senior Editor David Kestenbaum talks with a different kind of advocacy group: animal scientists doing their best to save a particular species before it winks out of existence. (16 minutes)

Senior editor David Kestenbaum helps his kids set up an ant farm.