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#831 - 24 May 2024
How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.
#830 - 17 May 2024
The trial for the men accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks still hasn’t started yet. Family members of those who died that day are still hoping for some kind of accountability, more than 22 years later. This week, the story of how one victim’s sister is navigating this historic and twisted trial.
#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.
