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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 10 hours 4 minutes
Catch a Killer With Your DNA
Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool that combines DNA science with family tree research. Where will it take us – a crime-free world or a dark dystopia?
Commander-in-Tweet
These days, a presidential tweet can dictate the news cycle for days on end. But is it driving us to distraction?
America’s Drug War, Revealed (rebroadcast)
How a baggie of crack cocaine packed with fear, distortion and misconceptions, and one presidential address in the 1980s, helped shape the war on drugs.
Scuttling Science
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
The Right to Boycott (rebroadcast)
“It is wrong to boycott Israel” is a bipartisan message. But is banning the boycott a violation of First Amendment rights? Also, the story of a man who is trying to boycott Israel while living under Israeli occupation. And the story of Captain Boycott, who gave his name to a new kind of protest.
Farm Wars (Rebroadcast)
The herbicide dicamba is causing a civil war in farm country. Plus, honeybee rustling in California’s almond groves. Lastly, sulfur and its link to asthma in children.
Year of Return
Four hundred years ago, English pirates brought enslaved Africans to America’s shores. We reflect on how the legacy of slavery has reverberated through the generations to the present.
The Cost of School Choice
Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice.
Bundyville Revealed
A bombing in rural Nevada you’ve probably never heard of. A plot to blow up a government building. Reveal teams up with the podcast series, Bundyville, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Longreads, to see what happened to rancher Cliven Bundy’s supporters since his original armed standoff with the government.
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits.