Act One: The Old Guard
LaDonna sets out to understand how this place is run.
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Act Four: We Keep the Wall Between Us As We Go
Where do parents go when they’re deported? For some, the answer is: as close as possible to their kids. That often means Nogales, Mexico.
Act Seven: Oslo
In Norway, Kirk tracks down fugitive feathers.
Act Two: Exit Through The Gift Shop
The bizarre experience of being a guest in museum dedicated to the worst day of your life.
Act Two: Kitchen Sink
All the little and not-so-little ways the Trump administration is tightening its scrutiny of immigrants.
Prologue
Ira wonders aloud, when it comes to DACA, with broad support from most Americans, including the majority of Trump voters, leaders of both parties and the president himself: Why is a permanent solution so hard? Why are politics so hard? (2 minutes)
Prologue
Zoe Chace goes to a conference hosted by Turning Point USA, where college students get trained to fight political battles.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass goes to Tijuana, Mexico where people trying to come to the U.S. asking for asylum have devised a new way to keep track of their place in line. (11 minutes)Cindy Carcamo first wrote about this story for the Los Angeles Times.
Act Two: Jury
Jonathan Goldstein talks to Sven Berger, a juror still hung up over an assignment he served ten years ago. Jonathan is the host of Heavyweight from Gimlet Media, which just began its third season.
Prologue
Sean Cole explains why he decided that he would speak with a British accent—morning, noon and night—from the age of fourteen until he was sixteen, and how he believed the lie that he was British must be true.
Prologue
LaDonna Powell starts her new job out on the tarmac at the airport.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks with Ben Calhoun about how Democrats are furiously trying to retake New York’s 19th congressional district. The sitting Republican is considered very vulnerable, and has been the subject of weekly protests that even have a house band.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks to Congressman Mark Pocan and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal about a bold bill they sponsored last week.
Prologue
Producer Diane Wu tells Ira the story of a woman and her quest to find out who sent her a mysterious gift.
Act One
Hannah Dreier with ProPublica spent a year reporting in Brentwood, Long Island where three teenagers mysteriously disappeared. All three were considered runaways by the Suffolk County Police.
Act One: Ready As You’ll Never Be
Marjory Stoneman Douglas had just completed a schoolwide upgrade on their emergency plans, just a month before the mass shooting at their school. Producer Robyn Semien talks to two teachers at the school about how that training both benefited them, and didn’t.
Act Two: Book Fishing In America
In Richard Brautigan's novel "The Abortion," he imagines a library where regular people can come and drop off their own unpublished books. Nothing is turned away.
Act Two: The Flautist
Edwin's life in a rarified world of flutes and feathers.
Act Two: Hole in the Wall
Producer Neil Drumming has steadfastly avoided one bar in his neighborhood because of the controversy that surrounds it—until recently, when he noticed that lots of people he didn’t expect to go there were becoming regulars.
Act Two: Unbelieving
Cody's parents try to get him to unlearn some of what AJ taught him—and it's difficult.
Act Two
Hannah Dreier’s story continues. She confronts former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini with her findings.