Off Course

#765 - 18 March 2022

Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.

School's Out Forever

#764 - 11 March 2022

The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?

The Other Mr. President

#763 - 25 February 2022

Stories about Vladimir Putin. Did he come to power in 1999 by killing hundreds of innocent Russians? How’s he really seen in his home country? This show is a mix of old and new stories we’ve done about him.

Apocalypse Creep

#762 - 11 February 2022

A woman wakes up and discovers her backyard has disappeared, and other stories from places slowly coming apart.

The Trojan Horse Affair

#761 - 4 February 2022

A while back, one of our producers Brian Reed was in England giving a speech about the podcast he'd hosted, S-Town. A journalism student approached him, asking for advice about a story he wanted to look into – something that’d been big news in Britain, something he’d thought about for years. Brian and the student, Hamza Syed, decided to team up to try and solve the mystery at the heart of that story. The original idea was to put this on our show, but it got too big. Too many twists and turns! This week, it rolls out as a spectacularly great podcast called The Trojan Horse Affair. We’re excited to bring you their first episode today.

A City Walks Into an Investigation

#760 - 28 January 2022

Last week's story continues, about a Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery. This week: the police officer suffers the consequences and so does the couple.

A Couple Walks Into a House

#759 - 21 January 2022

Rob and Reyna Mathis make an unsettling discovery in the home of a local police officer. Soon, their whole city is asking questions about who the officer really is and what he's been doing.

Talking While Black

#758 - 7 January 2022

Think back to two summers ago, the summer of 2020, when a series of violent, highly-publicized killings of Black Americans sparked outrage and a national movement to eradicate racism and its evils. That movement gave way to a newer, reactionary one, a backlash that is playing out in schools and school board meetings across America. Host Emanuele Berry shares stories about Black people who got tangled up in this current backlash in both extreme and very personal ways. This episode won a 2023 duPont-Columbia Award.

The Ghost in the Machine

#757 - 31 December 2021

People use machines to find people they lost.

But I Did Everything Right

#756 - 10 December 2021

People earnestly doing what they're told, and absolutely not getting what they were promised.