People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
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We hear from kids who are dealing with some of the country’s most contentious debates. Debates that are supposedly about them.
Two people go on excavations of their families’ pasts.
People taking it upon themselves to keep an eye on those in charge.
Getting to the facts can be difficult, but it’s always the right thing to do. Except when it isn’t.
An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.
When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were?
Ten people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY. Their stories, as you’ve never heard them.
Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?
An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?
Stories from the center of this moment of history, the day it happened.
Getting from A to B via Z.
Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.
The government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in — and getting results.
People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.
A man is thrust into a new world he didn’t ask to visit.
Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.
Stories of resistance from Hungary and Russia.
People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems.
People who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.
The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?
Stories about Vladimir Putin.
Stories from places that are slowly coming apart.
A mysterious letter shocked Britain. But who wrote it?
Our story continues about the Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery.
An unsettling discovery in the home of a local police officer rocks an entire city.
People tangled up in our current racial backlash in both extreme and very personal ways.
People use machines to find people they lost.
People earnestly doing what they're told, and absolutely not getting what they were promised.
The story of an FBI undercover operation from 2006 that went terribly, and became the heart of a case heard at the Supreme Court.
Birds—the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreck, the lives they change.
Getting the point across — or trying to, anyway.
A man who was kept for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay gets out and issues an invitation to the people who kept him there.
We bring the movies to you.
Getting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance.
An hour devoted to embarrassing stories.
What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.
Who thought that would be good for a kid?
We made you a mixtape. Don't make a big deal out of it or anything.
People trying to escape all kinds of seemingly impossible situations.
The pandemic forced jobs to change, but then the workers changed, too.
Bad neighbors. What can you do about them?
What’s recovery mean, anyway?
Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful.
Solving problems using very extreme measures.
The bonds between sisters and how they get broken and fixed—or not.
People figuring out how to grieve, and doing a pretty good job of it.
An ode to life's daily practices, and what you learn from doing a thing every single day.
What happens when your own community suddenly turns on you?