Reveal

President Donald Trump has pledged allegiance to what he calls America’s “energy dominance.” This is good news for the oil and gas industry. We examine what this means for Alaskan villagers coping with climate change, Native American artifacts in Utah and birds flying over the U.S.

We continue our ongoing investigation into what happens to immigrant children after they’re detained by the U.S. government. Then, we travel to the Gulf Coast to learn why last year was the costliest hurricane season on record.

We hike through the jungles of El Salvador to find an elusive fleet of shark-fishing boats that are implicated in overfishing and possible human trafficking. And we investigate a U.S.-based seafood company that purports to be a model of sustainability.

Masha Alyokhina, a founding member of the Russian feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot, challenged Vladimir Putin with art. She paid with time in prison. Reveal host Al Letson talks with Alyokhina about standing up to authoritarianism and the campaign to release other political prisoners while World Cup attention is on Russia.

President Donald Trump said he was ending family separation at the border this week. But we’ve stayed on the story, investigating the issues that remain: children being drugged at migrant shelters, asylum-seekers being denied at ports of entry and the problems with Trump’s new detention plan.

In 1996, Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, purchased a farm with a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Twenty years later, the USDA foreclosed on the property and evicted him. Reveal investigates his claim that he was discriminated against because of his race.

Last time we did a show about U.S. immigration policies, listeners texted us hundreds of questions. This week, we answer your questions about immigration.

They belonged to an elite police task force charged with getting guns off Baltimore’s streets. Instead, the plainclothes cops roamed the city, robbing people on the street, breaking into homes to steal money, drugs or guns and planting evidence on their victims.

The collision of the opioid epidemic with criminal justice reform has created a boom for the rehab industry. Those with wealth and insurance often are able to pay thousands of dollars for private long-term programs.

Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter have been uncovering the ways that some drug rehabs exploit their desperate clients. In this episode, they describe to host Al Letson the shocking things they found at one rehab in the mountains of North Carolina.