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Before he leaves the Senate for good, Republican Jeff Flake is trying to get a bill passed.
Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father.
Lotto fever grips the cast of Riverdance.
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The film tells the real-life story of Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star in the Pentecostal church and Oral Roberts’s protégé.
Footage of people rushing the fences in Melilla had appeared in Donald Trump’s first TV ad when he was running for president.
Stories from border walls all over the world, and of the strange ecosystems that arise around them.
We commissioned an original cover of “9 to 5,” by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, and it’s fantastic. Chana and Robyn talk about how the song came to be. Also, now you can download the song.
Once a wall is built, it becomes a fact on the landscape that can totally change the logic of the world around it. In the episode “The Walls,” we have stories about people at walls all over the globe. Fly around to visit the walls in each story.
A different kind of #MeToo story, about several women who worked for the same man.
Exactly how much are the animals that live in our home caught up in everyday family dynamics?
Stories about surviving the mishaps of love.
People who say the “wrong” thing and suffer the consequences.
A year into Trump’s presidency, stories of politicians—of both parties—unable to accomplish tasks that seem pretty straightforward.
A boy who can’t dribble gets a coach, a new best friend, and something to believe in.
People bungle simple operations on some of the most dangerous weapons in the world.
A study by economist Giovanni Peri, who worked with us on our shows about Albertville, Alabama.
When an Alabama town went from 98% white to one-fourth Latino, what did it mean for taxpayers, schools, traffic, crime?
What really happened when undocumented workers showed up in one Alabama town?
Jeff Sessions believes undocumented workers drove down wages in Alabama poultry plants. We commissioned a study to see if he’s right.
Blurring the line between animal and human.
Stories of people trying to unspool some of life’s certainties.
Stories about delays, including a town in Ohio known almost entirely for its speed trap.
Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight.
Neil Drumming looks back at a toy he loved that, in retrospect, probably wouldn’t love him back.
What should we make of right-wing groups like the Proud Boys, who believe “the West is the best”?
See Bill Alexander and Marvin Barnard transform from freshmen to seniors.
In 1967, the first black students integrated the South’s elite prep schools. One of the main reasons they were there? To benefit the white kids.