Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story. Learn more at revealnews.org/learn.
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The VA’s Deadly Pain Pill Habit
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs is prescribing highly addictive painkillers to vets at an alarming rate – an increase of 270 percent in the past 12 years. Meet the men and women who served our country, only to get strung out by their own doctors at home. The episode also includes the lawyer planning Edward Snowden’s defense, the attorney representing America’s worst charities and the professor data mining redacted documents.