This week: 911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
What Is Your Emergency?
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This week: 911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
A woman boards her regular bus from New York to DC. She wakes up from a nap to find the driver has another destination in mind. link.podtrac.com/l61yg6q6
Trapped on a Bus
People on journeys they did not intend! Or agree to!
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July 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A woman boards her regular bus from New York to DC. She wakes up from a nap to find the driver has another destination in mind. link.podtrac.com/l61yg6q6
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. link.podtrac.com/iehabou3
Give a Little Whistle
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
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March 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. link.podtrac.com/iehabou3
Portland has been portrayed as "war-ravaged," under siege from Antifa. Right-wing streamers filmed it, Fox News amplified it, Trump is using it to justify a nationwide crackdown. We wanted to see the reality behind the story being told about this city. link.podtrac.com/431686w9
The Making Of
How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Portland has been portrayed as "war-ravaged," under siege from Antifa. Right-wing streamers filmed it, Fox News amplified it, Trump is using it to justify a nationwide crackdown. We wanted to see the reality behind the story being told about this city. link.podtrac.com/431686w9
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Home Depots in LA keep getting raided. Day laborers keep showing up to find work anyway. Months of this cat-and-mouse—what's that like? Anayansi Diaz-Cortes went to find out. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
What Is Your Emergency?
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Home Depots in LA keep getting raided. Day laborers keep showing up to find work anyway. Months of this cat-and-mouse—what's that like? Anayansi Diaz-Cortes went to find out. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
The president of the Black Student Union at the University of Utah fights to keep the B in BSU. link.podtrac.com/x1rke2j8
College Disorientation
Things are different on college campuses this year. We see inside the drama, with students and staff.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The president of the Black Student Union at the University of Utah fights to keep the B in BSU. link.podtrac.com/x1rke2j8
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April 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"Instead of counting how many hours a day the power is cut, we count how long it's back on." A dispatch from Cuba on rationing food, fighting flies, and life on just a few hours of power a day. link.podtrac.com/l61yg6q6
Trapped on a Bus
People on journeys they did not intend! Or agree to!
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July 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
"Instead of counting how many hours a day the power is cut, we count how long it's back on." A dispatch from Cuba on rationing food, fighting flies, and life on just a few hours of power a day. link.podtrac.com/l61yg6q6
A DC reporter found a box of art supplies on his stoop and decided, with zero experience, that he would become the official oil painter of Washington. It did not go exactly as planned. link.podtrac.com/6cxk5300
Not Today, Hades!
Regular people trapped inside Greek myths.
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June 8, 2026 at 2:04 AM
A DC reporter found a box of art supplies on his stoop and decided, with zero experience, that he would become the official oil painter of Washington. It did not go exactly as planned. link.podtrac.com/6cxk5300
A 25-year Social Security Administration veteran got called to a secret meeting with DOGE. They asked him to declare 6,000 people dead, with no proof that they had died. He said no. Then the list grew to 2.7 million. link.podtrac.com/6cxk5300
Not Today, Hades!
Regular people trapped inside Greek myths.
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June 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
A 25-year Social Security Administration veteran got called to a secret meeting with DOGE. They asked him to declare 6,000 people dead, with no proof that they had died. He said no. Then the list grew to 2.7 million. link.podtrac.com/6cxk5300
"I was angry that we were being manipulated." Immigration judges speak up about how different their jobs have become in the past few months. link.podtrac.com/jg02r5r2
The Hand That Rocks The Gavel
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
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September 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"I was angry that we were being manipulated." Immigration judges speak up about how different their jobs have become in the past few months. link.podtrac.com/jg02r5r2
When Courtney Maum was eighteen, her mother married a guy she despised. At their wedding, Courtney read a poem she wrote – a pretty dark poem! – which made her mother furious. More than 30 years later, they finally talk about it.
Intergenerational Space Travel
People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times.
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September 21, 2026 at 12:56 PM
When Courtney Maum was eighteen, her mother married a guy she despised. At their wedding, Courtney read a poem she wrote – a pretty dark poem! – which made her mother furious. More than 30 years later, they finally talk about it.
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May 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
now I need to make Tom Scott and make his lingo "Abandoned Mines" and make him platonic lifepartners with Tomska. Thanks Mae!
I have black dog hair all over my apartment, and it shows in particular, in my bedroom. When I have friends over, which is rare, I've been asked: "Why don't you vacuum that up?" and I say "I do. But I let it stay for a while because some day it won't be there anymore." #dogs #cats #lifepartners
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I have black dog hair all over my apartment, and it shows in particular, in my bedroom. When I have friends over, which is rare, I've been asked: "Why don't you vacuum that up?" and I say "I do. But I let it stay for a while because some day it won't be there anymore." #dogs #cats #lifepartners
This week: people catching surprising reflections of themselves and what they do with that information.
Suddenly: A Mirror!
A show about people who are suddenly confronted with who they are.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This week: people catching surprising reflections of themselves and what they do with that information.
People across the country have called 911 on ICE — for hit-and-runs, for broken laws, for shootings. Callers and dispatchers alike have to figure out what to do in this entirely new situation, where people are calling local police to do something about federal agents. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
What Is Your Emergency?
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
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Prologu...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
People across the country have called 911 on ICE — for hit-and-runs, for broken laws, for shootings. Callers and dispatchers alike have to figure out what to do in this entirely new situation, where people are calling local police to do something about federal agents. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh
This week: People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it. link.podtrac.com/i7xnisph
With Great Power
People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it.
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May 11, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This week: People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it. link.podtrac.com/i7xnisph
Sarah Vowell has a theory that you can tell the entire history of the United States by standing on one street corner—Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive in Chicago.
Four Corners
We try to tell the story of life in America through portraits of life on four different corners, in four different states across the nation.
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June 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Sarah Vowell has a theory that you can tell the entire history of the United States by standing on one street corner—Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive in Chicago.
A group of immigration judges, who rarely speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. link.podtrac.com/jg02r5r2
The Hand That Rocks The Gavel
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A group of immigration judges, who rarely speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside. link.podtrac.com/jg02r5r2
This week: Jad Abumrad tells the story of the "ideological genealogy” of Fela Kuti’s anti-colonial politics — his mother.
Bigger Than Me
When history comes knocking, you have to figure out what to do.
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Prologue: Brittany’s job is to answer anonymous calls...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This week: Jad Abumrad tells the story of the "ideological genealogy” of Fela Kuti’s anti-colonial politics — his mother.
"We could tell a [ICE] cadet up and down that they were going to get themselves killed in the field or get arrested or violate the law...but it didn't matter...they could still graduate, no matter what we saw them do." link.podtrac.com/iehabou3
Give a Little Whistle
Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
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March 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
"We could tell a [ICE] cadet up and down that they were going to get themselves killed in the field or get arrested or violate the law...but it didn't matter...they could still graduate, no matter what we saw them do." link.podtrac.com/iehabou3
@birbigs.bsky.social shares the questions his daughter asks him, and how trying to answer them revealed surprising reflections of himself.
Suddenly: A Mirror!
A show about people who are suddenly confronted with who they are.
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Prologue: Guest host Aviva DeKornfeld tells Ira G...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@birbigs.bsky.social shares the questions his daughter asks him, and how trying to answer them revealed surprising reflections of himself.
This week: Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
Office Politics
Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
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March 2, 2026 at 11:56 AM
This week: Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.