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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.
Stories about 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?
Stories about the power of blood.
How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos.
Three friends come together to protest the murder of George Floyd. Over time, they end up in very different places.
Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.
Stories of people summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.
Things lost in the past year that we haven’t talked about much.
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
People going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like.
Stories about people who were born the year our show first aired.
Stories about food and people who set out on very particular missions with food.
Stories of people changing their minds.