The fact that was repeated about Katherine Massey was that she had written an letter to the newspaper calling for gun control the year before she was murdered. Katherine Massey made things happen. Eve L.

Anti-gerrymandering activists in Ohio worked for decades to pass a constitutional amendment to curb gerrymandering. Then Republican lawmaker Matt Huffman came along and finally made it happen.

Sandy and Lonnie’s daughter, Jessi, died back in 2012, when a gunman opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. Since then, they’ve organized their whole lives to be able to reach out to other parents like themselves.

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

Washington Post reporter, Isaac Arnsdorf, and producer, Zoe Chace, continue the story about the takeover of the Republican party. Together, they hit the road to document how the presence of the MAGA newbies are changing things on the ground in Arizona. Isaac is writing a book all about the MAGA plot to take over America.

Bim Adewunmi finds a window into Andre Mackneil’s world through TikTok. (4 minutes)

Ira introduces us to Santa Allen. A man who is NOT the real Santa Claus but who will – for the first time ever – be sitting in a chair, dressed as Santa, asking little children what they want for Christmas this year.  He’s nervous.

Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talks to researcher Mary Koss about how she came to see a thing that others couldn’t, and about what she did with that knowledge. (15 minutes)

Zoe Chace spends time with a lawmaker in Missouri on the day Roe fell who’d worked her whole life for this moment and can’t believe it’s really here.

Ira talks with a radio announcer in Truckee, California, about the increasingly alarming content of his fishing reports.

Lilly Sullivan talks with former science reporter, Kelsey Padget, who’s on a mission to disabuse the world of its incorrect assumptions about an allegedly murderous creature: the black widow spider. (10 minutes)Kelsey Padgett will be hosting an upcoming weekly podcast about big history rivalries and gossipy petty feuds. Dr.

Officer Anderson is fired based on the chief’s findings. But that’s not what’s said publicly.

Ira Glass follows Ken as he tries to figure out whether or not the man who reached out to him actually scammed him. Ken learns about a mysterious bot that may have been involved and worries his life may be in danger.

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

One of the last independent newspapers in Russia finds new ways to cover a war that the government doesn’t want them to cover.

A game of telephone played on the podcast Normal Gossip reveals how gossip spreads, and why stories change from person to person.

Documentarian Maisie Crow has been following the fight to stay open by the Jackson Women’s Health Clinic, for ten years. Now the Supreme Court decision is forcing their doors shut for good.

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

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.

Hamza and Brian visit Tahir Alam, the alleged mastermind of a plot to ‘Islamize’ Birmingham’s schools.

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

Two co-workers notice something off about the new guy at work.