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#829 - 10 May 2024
For years, Majid believed that if he could testify in court about what happened to him when he was held in a CIA black site, a judge and jury would give him a break. Finally, he got a chance to see if he was right.
#828 - 5 April 2024
People taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world.
#827 - 22 March 2024
The things we break and the ones we can't fix.
#826 - 15 March 2024
People waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed.
#825 - 1 March 2024
A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza named Yousef Hammash, between early December and now. He talks about what he and his family are experiencing, sometimes as they are experiencing it.
#824 - 23 February 2024
Your mother and I have something we want to talk with you about.
#823 - 2 February 2024
An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.
#822 - 26 January 2024
What it means to have words—and to lose them.
#821 - 19 January 2024
People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it.
#820 - 22 December 2023
A major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out for them?