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#734 - 19 March 2021
How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos. One of the biggest changes: most colleges have stopped requiring the SAT. For decades, there’s been a debate over whether schools should drop the test. What’s it mean that it finally happened?
#733 - 5 March 2021
This week, three men who came together to protest the murder of George Floyd. They were unified, loud, and impressive, but over time these three friends end up in three very different places.
#732 - 19 February 2021
Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.
#731 - 12 February 2021
Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.
#730 - 22 January 2021
Things we’ve lost in the past year — since the first American coronavirus case — that we haven’t talked about so much. Gossip. The chance to make new friends. And much larger stuff.
#729 - 8 January 2021
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
#728 - 25 December 2020
People going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
#727 - 18 December 2020
What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.
#726 - 11 December 2020
To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
#725 - 27 November 2020
For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food.
