Producer Alix Spiegel reports on the city of Pacifica, California. A huge fight erupted there after it was asked to start planning for sea level rise.

Like a lot of parents, Yibin Li’s dad dedicated himself to making sure his daughter stayed on a path that would lead her to a better life than his. But the obstacles her dad had to surmount to achieve this are unlike those any parent anywhere has faced.

Writer Marie Phillips has a short story about a strange man in a parking lot, offering to grant one wish.

For most of their history, salmon were born upstream and swam to the ocean before coming back as adults to spawn. But humans have disrupted the route the salmon take to the ocean.

Our producer Zoe Chace goes to Fairview Heights, Illinois, where Planned Parenthood has opened a massive new abortion clinic just across the river from Missouri. Abortion is banned in Missouri and lots of the surrounding states now that Roe has been overturned.

Margus Morrison was a school bus aide, father of six.

The official investigation by the city of Muskegon into the officer’s past gets underway– and we have a transcript of what went down! Finally we hear the officer – and his wife – explain themselves.

When school closed and threw routines into disarray, one mom and daughter figured out a new way to make it work.

Ruth Whitfield. 86 years old. There was a detail repeated often came to Ruth Whitfield, the oldest victim.

Michelle Navarro attended a Catholic youth group retreat when she was thirteen.

Alex Edelman grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in Boston. But one year, unexpectedly, his family decided to celebrate Christmas – for what he says are very Jewish reasons.

An elections administrator in Texas, Heider Garcia, uses a radical approach to try to win over election skeptics: tactical patience.

Ira’s story of Yibin Li continues.

Clay Elder grew up Mormon, with a fear of outsiders. That changed on a visit to New York City.

Rob and Reyna Mathis go house hunting with their family in Muskegon, Michigan. What they find in a police officer’s home prompts an upsetting debate.

Ira summarizes part one of our story.

As Kyiv empties out, Ukrainian photographer Yevgenia Belorusets documents her interactions with those who stayed behind. (15 minutes)Her diaries were published by ISOLARII.

After every school shooting a political debate reemerges about guns. Meanwhile, kids keep going to school.

Muskegon’s City Manager and Chief of Police have to figure out what to do about their employee who’s now in the spotlight.

The pandemic moved lots of families around, and many children simply vanished from school, in person, and online.

Amy Bloom tells the story of her husband, Brian, getting Alzheimer's and wanting assisted suicide. Her search to find a way to do that led her to Dignitas, in Switzerland.

There’s a group chat for Nigerian students living in Ukraine that got totally upended by the war.

Reporter James Spring visits a refugee camp in Tijuana, Mexico filled with Ukranians fleeing the war.

Maisie Crow is back to take us inside the Jackson clinic once again, as they rally themselves to see all the patients they’d scheduled for the next month to come in in the next ten days, before the ban goes into effect.