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Sesame Street
Episode Date: March 20, 2025Big Bird, politics, and the ABCs: how a television show made to represent New York City neighborhoods like Harlem and the Bronx became beloved by fami...
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Winter is Coming
Episode Date: March 13, 2025Dinosaurs, Carl Sagan, and nuclear war. There was a moment in the not-so-distant past when we learned what drove the dinosaurs extinct — and that disc...
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We the People: Succession of Power
Episode Date: March 6, 2025The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential was missin...
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Health Insurance in America
Episode Date: February 27, 2025Millions of Americans depend on their jobs for health insurance. But that's not the case in many other wealthy countries. How did the U.S. end up with...
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The Evolution of Presidential Power
Episode Date: February 20, 2025What can and can't the president do — and how do we know? The framers of the U.S. Constitution left the powers of the executive branch powers delibera...
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The Anti-Vaccine Movement
Episode Date: February 13, 2025The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been...
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Birthright Citizenship
Episode Date: February 6, 2025Wong Kim Ark was born in the U.S. and lived his whole life here. But when he returned from a trip to China in August of 1895, officials wouldn't let h...
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The Kingdom Behind Glass
Episode Date: January 30, 2025Who owns stolen art? Today on the show, the bloody journey of a Benin Bronze from West Africa to the halls of one of England's most elite universities...
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We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Episode Date: January 23, 2025The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagi...
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Ralph Nader, Consumer Crusader (Throwback)
Episode Date: January 16, 2025Whether it's pesticides in your cereal or the door plug flying off your airplane, consumers today have plenty of reasons to feel like corporations mig...
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History of the Self: Dreams
Episode Date: January 9, 2025Our dreams can haunt us. But what are we to make of them? From omens and art to modern science, we tell the story of dreams and the surprising role th...
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History of the Self: Aging
Episode Date: January 2, 2025Defeating old age? In 1899, Elie Metchnikoff woke up in Paris to learn he had done just that. At least, that's what the newspaper headlines said. Befo...
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History of the Self: Love
Episode Date: December 26, 2024How did love – this thing that's supposed to be beautiful, magical, transformative – turn into a neverending slog? We went searching for answers, and...
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Embedded: The Black Gate
Episode Date: December 24, 2024In the Xinjiang region of western China, the government has rounded up and detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups. M...
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History of the Self: Smell and Memory
Episode Date: December 19, 2024"History" can seem big and imposing. But it's always intensely personal – it's all of our individual experiences that add up to historical events. Ove...
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Going to the Source of L.A.'s Water
Episode Date: December 16, 2024Throughline associate producer Anya Steinberg talks to supervising senior editor Julie Caine about her reporting trip to Owens Valley in northeastern...
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When Christmas Went Viral
Episode Date: December 12, 2024Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But in 19th-century London, it went viral. When Charles Dickens published...
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Seeking Asylum in the U.S.
Episode Date: December 5, 2024The U.S. has long professed to be a country where people can seek refuge. That's the promise etched into the base of the Statue of Liberty. But it's n...
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The Lord Of Misrule (Throwback)
Episode Date: November 28, 2024By the time his book went to press in London, on November 18, 1633, Thomas Morton had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. His crim...
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The Mother of Thanksgiving
Episode Date: November 21, 2024The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha Hale had on her mind when she sat down to write a...