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Havana Syndrome from 2023-12-02T05:00
A sharp sound. Followed by body numbness. Difficulty speaking. Extreme head pain. Since 2016, U.S. officials across the world – in Cuba, China and Russia – have reported experiencing the sudden ...
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In Bondage to the Law from 2023-11-18T05:00
On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no...
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America Goes Psychedelic, Again from 2023-10-28T04:00
Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health...
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Cashing in on Troubled Teens from 2023-10-21T04:00
The first time Trina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was 12 years old. She was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. But instead, Trina would end up...
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From Victim to Suspect from 2023-10-14T04:00
Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a local restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to ...
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How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong from 2023-10-07T04:00
Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. But during the pandemic, Adams had to give him a reading test at home, and she ...
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Alphabet Boys Revealed from 2023-09-30T04:00
The summer of 2020 was a hinge point in American history. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police inspired racial justice demonstrations nationwide. At the time, the FBI was convinced t...
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The Spy Inside Your Smartphone from 2023-09-23T04:00
Around the globe, journalists, human rights activists, scholars and others are facing digital attacks from Pegasus, military-grade spyware originally developed to go after criminals. Some of the...
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How a 7-Year Prison Sentence Turns Into Over 100 from 2022-04-30T04:00
Anthony Gay was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. Gay lives with serious mental illness, and after time in solitary confi...
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Campaigning on the Big Lie from 2022-04-02T04:00
More than a year after the 2020 election, roughly a third of Americans continue to believe, without evidence, that the results of the election were illegitimate. And now, GOP candidates are tapp...
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Can Our Climate Survive Bitcoin? from 2022-03-26T04:00
Bitcoin is a novel form of currency that bypasses banks, credit card companies and governments. But as Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren reports, the process of creating bitcoin is extremely energy int...
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Behind the Blue Wall from 2022-03-05T05:00
A nanny in Nashville was having a picnic on a bike path with the kids she was caring for when a man emerged from his house and started cursing at them. The woman began recording and threatened t...
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Who Has Power and How Do They Wield It? from 2022-02-19T06:19:20
Washington, D.C.: The Difficulties of Firing Police Officers
A group of hackers attacked the Metropolitan Police Department in 2021, leaking 250 gigabytes of data and confiden...
After Ayotzinapa Chapter 3: All Souls from 2022-01-29T05:00
The final chapter of our three-part investigation into the abduction
of 43 Mexican students in 2014 looks at how an unexpected turn in Mexico’s politics leads to a new investigation with...
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After Ayotzinapa Chapter 2: The Cover-Up from 2022-01-22T05:00
The second chapter of our three-part investigation into the abduction of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014 digs into the government cover-up of the crime.
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After Ayotzinapa Chapter 1: The Missing 43 from 2022-01-15T05:00
It has been over seven years since 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Guerrero, Mexico, were taken by armed men in the middle of the night. They were never seen again. Th...
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Take No Prisoners from 2022-01-08T05:00
In December 1944, Frank Hartzell was a young soldier pressed into fierce fighting during the Battle of the Bulge. He was there battling Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne,...
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Mississippi Goddam Chapter 1: The Promise from 2021-10-16T04:00
Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time. Then, early one morning in 2008, the Black teenager died during a traffic stop with a White deputy. His family’s b...
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When Abusers Keep Their Guns from 2021-10-09T04:00
Reveal’s Jennifer Gollan leads an investigation that exposes the consequences of passing gun laws with no teeth. For the first time, Reveal tallies the number of intimate partners, children and ...
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Preview Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe from 2021-10-07T04:00
Sometimes one story can tell you everything about race and justice in America. Reveal’s new series, “Mississippi Goddam: the Ballad of Billey Joe” is that story. With a title inspired by Nina Si...
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A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders from 2021-09-25T04:00
For decades, Doctors Without Borders has been admired for bringing desperately needed medical care to crises around the globe and pioneering modern-day humanitarian aid. It’s an organization wit...
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The Bitter Work Behind Sugar from 2021-09-18T04:00
Sugar is a big part of Americans’ daily diet. But who harvests some of that sweet cane?
Reporters Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel visit Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic...
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Forever Wars from 2021-09-11T04:00
Since 9/11, the power of the U.S. military has been felt around the world in the name of rooting out terrorism. But at what cost? From Fallujah in Iraq to tiny villages in Afghanistan and Yemen,...
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Fighting Fire with Fire from 2021-09-04T04:00
Year after year, wildfires have swept through Northern California’s wine and dairy country, threatening the region’s famed agricultural businesses. . Evacuation orders have become a way of life ...
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For 20 years, I saw no peace from 2021-08-21T04:00
We open with a story from Aysha, a Kabul resident in her mid-twenties, who we’ve been checking in with over the past few months. Aysha was born in Pakistan. Her parents fled Afghanistan after th...
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Minor violations from 2021-08-14T04:00
Shelter staff have called 911 on migrant kids for minor offenses. In some cases, police have arrested, jailed and even tased those kids.
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The teen reporter, the evictions and the church from 2021-07-31T04:00
Three stories from local reporters who uncovered injustice and inequality in their hometowns, from an eviction crisis in Ohio to a Hitler-quoting state police training in Kentucky.
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Baseball Strikes Out from 2021-07-17T04:00
In the early 2000s, rampant steroid use across Major League Baseball became the biggest scandal in the sport’s history. But fans didn’t want to hear the difficult truth about their heroes – and ...
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Weapons with minds of their own from 2021-06-26T04:00
The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever greater control over battlefield technology. Will this give machines the power to decide who to kill?
Emission control from 2021-06-12T04:00
If we want to quickly combat climate change, we need to deal with “the other” greenhouse gas: methane. Methane leaks are heating up the planet and harming people who live where gas drilling take...
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Viral Lies from 2021-06-05T04:00
From anti-vaxxers to QAnon, we look at how misinformation spreads online – and the lives it disrupts.
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The Mystery of Mountain Jane Doe from 2021-05-29T04:00
In the summer of 1969, a young woman was found dead off a remote mountain trail in Harlan, Kentucky. She’d been stabbed multiple times. Her identity was a mystery, so locals referred to her as M...
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Why Police Reform Fails from 2021-05-08T04:00
Six years after Ferguson, St. Louis hasn’t seen a single substantive police reform. A group of young Black leaders have instead set their sights higher: taking control of city politics.
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Banking on Inequity from 2021-05-01T04:00
Congress spent hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue small businesses hurt by the pandemic. But Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money disproportionately went to White neighborhoods, leavin...
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The Rise and Fall of Madoff's Ponzi Scheme from 2021-04-24T04:00
After Bernie Madoff’s death, we dig into how he pulled off one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history. Reporter Steve Fishman explores what lessons the fallen financier’s story holds for today....
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The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster from 2021-04-17T04:00
Sixteen-year-old Myon Burrell was sent to prison for life after a stray bullet killed an 11-year-old girl in Minneapolis in 2002. Amy Klobuchar, who was Minneapolis’ top prosecutor, brought firs...
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Sick on the Inside from 2021-04-03T04:00
For decades, the United States has operated a system of private “shadow prisons” to house noncitizens convicted of federal crimes. Now, President Joe Biden has ordered these contracts to be woun...
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Minor League Pay from 2021-03-27T04:00
From the Frisco RoughRiders to the Dayton Dragons, minor league baseball teams are a classic American tradition. But their players are not covered by some classic American laws: Players can earn...
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Juvenile (In)justice from 2021-03-20T07:00
Larissa Salazar grew up in Wyoming, and when she was in eighth grade, she got in a fight on a school bus. That snowballed into her spending 16 months in a state juvenile facility.
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Protecting Kids from Abuse from 2021-03-13T05:00
For years, the Pentagon mishandled sexual assault cases involving kids living on military bases, until an Associated Press investigation jolted lawmakers into action.
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Remember Me This Way from 2021-03-03T05:00
In this special episode of the podcast, we hear the story of one of more than 500,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19. David León was a father of six; a small-business owner in Fresno, Calif...
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Into the COVID ICU from 2021-02-27T05:00
Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated from medical school during the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor for her first months working at a hospital in Fresno, California, as she grapples with iso...
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Timber Wars from 2021-02-13T05:00
Thirty years ago, activists and scientists turned a fight over the spotted owl and ancient trees into one of the biggest environmental conflicts of the century. The process transformed the way w...
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The Ticket Trap from 2021-02-06T05:00
Sports, theater and concert fans are itching for events to start happening again. So are clever ticket sellers who’ve figured out ways to cash in on unsuspecting customers shopping online.
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How the Pandemic Changed Us from 2021-01-30T05:00
Racial justice, police accountability, mutual aid, climate activism and warp-speed vaccines – we examine the ways our COVID-19 year changed American society.
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A Transfer of Power from 2021-01-23T05:00
Rage, chaos and conspiracies defined Donald Trump’s last days as president. As the nation swears in Joe Biden, we look at the long shadow cast by the White supremacist and anti-immigrant forces ...
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The Evolution of All-American Terrorism (rebroadcast) from 2021-01-16T05:00
Long before the attempted coup by his supporters, Trump fanned the flames of white supremacy & domestic terrorism. This week on Reveal, we track the increase in right-wing domestic terrorist...
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Democracy Under Siege from 2021-01-09T05:00
A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, aiming to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. How did we get here? We examine President Donald Trump’s rhetoric over the ...
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Take No Prisoners (Rebroadcast) from 2021-01-02T05:00
This episode originally was broadcast July 28, 2018.
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When Lighting the Voids (Rebroadcast) from 2020-12-26T05:00
This week, we present a special episode of Reveal produced by our partners at StoryWorks, a documentary theater company. “When Lighting The Voids” is an audio drama inspired by Reveal’s investig...
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Policing Pregnancy from 2020-12-19T05:00
If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, states could set their own rules about abortion. Some states have already closed clinics, and for those that remain they’ve added obstacles—like colle...
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All the President’s Pardons (Update) from 2020-12-12T05:00
President Donald Trump has granted clemency to several controversial people, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump’s friend and political operative Roger Stone. But ...
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Reproducing Racism (Rebroadcast) from 2020-12-05T05:00
As racial disparities in health come into the spotlight amid COVID-19, we explore how the legacy of racism affects maternal health in the U.S. Plus, we hear from doctors working hard to turn thi...
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Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Rebroadcast) from 2020-11-28T05:00
The story of how two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art, and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.
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The Bad Place from 2020-11-21T05:00
The vacant building that once housed the Riverside Academy in Wichita, Kansas, was covered in haunting graffiti: “Burn this place.” “Youth were abused here … systematically.” “This is a bad plac...
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Trump’s Global Echoes from 2020-11-18T05:00
The United States has traditionally been a leader of democracy internationally, taking a big role in establishing institutions such as the United Nations. But President Donald Trump’s “America F...
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United, We’re Not from 2020-11-14T05:00
Where does America go from here?
We talk with an asylum-seeking family, a Georgia woman on abortion access, and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter.
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The American Divide from 2020-11-07T05:00
Unborn babies' hearts are at risk as EPA caves to chemical companies’ 20-year effort to whitewash the science on the risks of an extremely dangerous and prevalent chemical, TCE.
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Stopping a Movement from 2020-10-31T04:00
In what may be the largest protest movement in the nation’s history, millions of Americans have taken to the streets this year to protest racism and police brutality. In response, the federal go...
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Remembering a White Supremacist Coup from 2020-10-24T04:00
On the eve of a contentious election, Reveal looks back to the nearly forgotten election of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that sti...
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An Adolescence, Seized from 2020-10-17T04:00
A 10-year-old Honduran girl came to the United States seeking asylum. Instead, she was detained – away from her family – for nearly seven years. Reporter Aura Bogado follows her story. After a l...
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An American Murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla from 2020-10-10T04:00
An American journalist and her mom are found murdered in Istanbul. Police say they caught the killer. Friends and family say the investigation was incomplete. In collaboration with ABC News and ...
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Whose Vote Will Count? from 2020-10-03T04:00
From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we travel to Wisconsin and Florida to examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections. Then we hear from postal workers about ...
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Catching Amazon in a Lie from 2020-09-26T04:00
Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers, but we’ve obtained numbers that show they’re getting hurt much more often than the company claims.
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COVID-19 in Confinement from 2020-09-19T04:00
At a time when self-isolation is the best way to avoid the pandemic, we examine two places where people have no choice but to live with strangers: nursing homes and prisons.
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America's Ring of Fire (Rebroadcast) from 2020-09-12T04:00
Wildfires are getting bigger, more expensive to fight and closer than ever to where people live. The consequences can be deadly. We examine how wildfires got so dangerous – and how some are figh...
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The Robert Mueller of Latin America from 2020-09-05T04:00
Crusading prosecutor Iván Velásquez has been called the Robert Mueller of Latin America. He’s known for jailing presidents and paramilitaries.
But Velásquez met his match when he went af...
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The Refuge Revealed (Rebroadcast) from 2020-08-29T04:00
The 40-year fight over drilling for oil in one of the world’s wildest places, Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is coming to a head. The Department of the Interior has just removed the f...
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Lost in Transplantation (Rebroadcast) from 2020-08-22T04:00
Quickly delivering donated organs to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are leading to delays in surgeries, putting patients in danger and...
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Monumental Lies (Update) from 2020-08-15T04:00
The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but the Confederacy didn't completely die with it. Monuments, shrines and museums are found throughout the South. We teamed up with Listen
American Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce from 2020-08-08T07:00
For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.
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American Rehab Chapter 7: The Work Cure from 2020-08-01T04:00
One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of backbreaking labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction?
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American Rehab Chapter 6: The White Vans from 2020-07-29T04:00
Before sunrise, a line of passenger vans heads to job sites across Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cenikor didn't want to show us where they were sending rehab participants to work. So we followed the v...
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American Rehab Chapter 5: Reagan with the Snap from 2020-07-25T04:00
Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to the inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president.
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American Rehab Chapter 4: Cowboy Conman from 2020-07-18T07:00
He’s a liar, a killer and a wannabe country music singer. Luke Austin finds Synanon in prison and borrows from its philosophy to create Cenikor. But graft and violence nearly destroy it.
American Rehab Chapter 3: A Venomous Snake from 2020-07-11T04:00
After amassing a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult, with mass sterilization, a paramilitary group and a rattlesnake in a mailbox.
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American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach from 2020-07-04T07:00:01
Cenikor’s bizarre form of rehab has its roots in Synanon: a revolutionary rehab that started in the 1950s on a California beach. Its charismatic leader, Charles Dederich, mesmerized the nation b...
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American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call from 2020-07-04T07:00
Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.
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An Old Hate Goes Viral from 2020-07-01T07:00
Since the coronavirus started spreading in the United States, members of the Asian American/Pacific Islander community have been verbally assaulted, coughed at and spit on, and even physically a...
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The Evolution of All-American Terrorism from 2020-06-27T07:00
The Trump years have seen an increase in domestic terrorist attacks linked by hateful ideologies that thrive online. Reveal teams up with Type Investigations to track each case and determine wha...
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Unrepentant from 2020-06-20T07:00
Despite revelations of clergy sex abuse and promises of transparency, a prominent Jesuit university does little to punish priests who cross the line.
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Divided States of the Pandemic from 2020-06-13T07:00
The federal government’s early failures to manage the coronavirus shifted a heavy burden to local officials. We look at how decision-makers in two states, California and Florida, found their way...
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The Uprising from 2020-06-06T07:00
As Americans take to the streets, we hear from the person prosecuting the police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing. We also hear from protesters around the country and remember the hist...
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Home School from 2020-05-30T07:00
Online learning works only if you can get online. Why tens of thousands of families are still caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
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Reproducing Racism from 2020-05-23T07:00
As racial disparities in health come into the spotlight amid COVID-19, we explore how the legacy of racism affects maternal health in the U.S. Plus, we hear from doctors working hard to turn thi...
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Homewreckers (Rebroadcast) from 2020-05-16T07:00
After the housing bust, a group of men profited by destroying the American dream of homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families. On Reveal, we learn how these Homewreckers did it and exp...
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(Un)protected from 2020-05-09T07:00
At a time when America is relying on health care workers more than ever, we look at why there’s not enough protective gear to keep them safe.
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Harpooned by Facebook (Rebroadcast) from 2020-05-02T07:00
As the pandemic sends more people online looking for entertainment, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits.
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Pandemic, Protests and Profits from 2020-04-25T07:00
Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not en...
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The Cost of COVID-19 from 2020-04-18T07:00
Can the biggest stimulus in modern U.S. history stave off home foreclosures, save businesses and prevent the worst economic crash since the Great Depression?
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Detained and Exposed from 2020-04-11T07:00
Social distancing, hand-washing and self-isolation are supposed to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But if you’re locked up in an immigrant detention center, it’s impossible to follow those ru...
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Essential Workers from 2020-04-04T07:00
While much of America shelters in place, farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees remain on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them from c...
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Quarantine Nation from 2020-03-28T07:00
Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough? Plus, why California abandoned medical stockpile...
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COVID-19 in the ER from 2020-03-21T07:00
As the new coronavirus spreads, an ER doctor in Seattle explains how he and other front-line physicians are learning to treat patients and keep themselves safe. Plus, more than eight years after...
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A Message from Reveal from 2020-03-19T07:00
Al Letson with a programming note on Reveal's upcoming episodes
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Containing the Coronavirus from 2020-03-14T07:00
As the new coronavirus spreads through the U.S., we chronicle how it came to California, with the voices of first responders, experts and passengers quarantined on a cruise ship docked in San Fr...
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American Rehab (Trailer) from 2020-03-11T07:00
Reveal is launching its first serialized investigation: American Rehab. In the midst of the worst opioid crisis in America’s history, Reveal uncovers a type of rehab that is flourishing by turni...
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The Refuge Revealed from 2020-03-07T08:00
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
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The Tell-Tale Hearts from 2020-02-29T08:00
Unborn babies' hearts are at risk as EPA caves to chemical companies’ 20-year effort to whitewash the science on the risks of an extremely dangerous and prevalent chemical, TCE.
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Scuttling Science (Rebroadcast) from 2020-02-22T08:00
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
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Six Years Separated from 2020-02-15T08:00
An asylum-seeking migrant girl is separated from her family at the border and enters U.S. custody at 10 years old. Now, she’s 17 and still in a shelter, even though her family is ready to take h...
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The honor walk from 2020-02-12T08:00
A new ritual called an honor walk is bringing solace to families who’ve lost a loved one and consented to have organs donated. Hospitals are organizing these walks as a way to honor the ...
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Lost in Transplantation from 2020-02-08T08:00
Delivering donated organs quickly to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are leading to delays in surgeries that put patients in da...
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Don’t Count on the Census from 2020-02-01T08:00
The census is approaching, but experts warn the count will be inaccurate. From the controversial citizenship question to a flawed online rollout, we look at why the census is struggling and whet...
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Fancy Galleries, Fake Art from 2020-01-25T08:00
How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art.
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Catch a Killer With Your DNA (rebroadcast) from 2020-01-18T08:00
This episode originally was broadcast Oct. 5, 2019.
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The lost homes of Detroit from 2020-01-11T08:00
Entire blocks of Detroit look abandoned because people fell behind on property taxes and lost their homes. But hundreds of millions of dollars of that tax debt never should have been billed in t...
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When Lighting the Voids from 2019-12-21T08:00
An audio drama inspired by Reveal’s investigation into a deadly explosion at a Mississippi shipyard, produced by our partners at StoryWorks, a documentary theater company.
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Think Globally, Report Locally from 2019-12-14T08:00
A high number of high school sports concussions. A low number of arrests for sexual assault. Reveal’s Reporting Network digs in.
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When Tasers Fail (rebroadcast) from 2019-12-07T08:00
A Taser is supposed to help police resolve a situation without using their guns. But in police departments across America, Tasers aren’t always living up to their promise, sometimes with lethal ...
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Building a Wall Out of Red Tape from 2019-11-30T08:00
Who qualifies for a visa? How much does it cost to become a U.S. citizen? Stories about the invisible barriers immigrants come up against when trying to apply for legal status.<...
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Amazon: Behind the Smiles from 2019-11-23T08:00
Shop. Click. And the next day, your purchase is on your doorstep. Amazon has changed the face of shopping, but at a surprisingly high cost to its workers. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday comi...
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Pushed out from 2019-11-20T08:00
Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked because youth incarceration reform focuses so much on boys. Reporter Ko Bragg expl...
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Development Arrested from 2019-11-16T08:00
**How does a seventh grader end up in solitary confinement in an adult jail? Reporter Ko Bragg takes us to Mississippi to learn about a set of laws that automatically send kids into the adult le...
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The Secret List of Convicted Cops from 2019-11-09T08:00
A reporter is threatened with prosecution, an officer outruns his past, and our host sits down with the president of the largest U.S. association of police officers to ask the question: ...
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Pardon Me (Rebroadcast) from 2019-11-02T07:00
As the House of Representatives continues its impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, we go back in time to the Nixon administration, when the threat of impeachment and a presidential par...
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The Lynching of Thomas Finch from 2019-10-26T07:00
In 1936, an unarmed black man was killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. We explore why the city doesn’t recognize the case as a lynching.
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Homewreckers from 2019-10-19T07:00
After the housing bust, a group of men profited by destroying the American dream of homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families. On Reveal, we learn how these Homewreckers -- many of who...
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Losing ground (rebroadcast) from 2019-10-12T07:00
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 ...
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Catch a Killer With Your DNA from 2019-10-05T07:00
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?
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Commander-in-Tweet from 2019-09-28T07:00
These days, a presidential tweet can dictate the news cycle for days on end. But is it driving us to distraction?
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America’s Drug War, Revealed (rebroadcast) from 2019-09-21T07:00
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.
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Scuttling Science from 2019-09-14T07:00
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
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The Right to Boycott (rebroadcast) from 2019-09-07T07:00
“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 u...
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Farm Wars (Rebroadcast) from 2019-08-31T07:00
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.
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Year of Return from 2019-08-24T07:00
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. Listen
The Cost of School Choice from 2019-08-17T07:00
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.
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Bundyville Revealed from 2019-08-10T07:00
**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 ...
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Harpooned by Facebook from 2019-08-03T07:00
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.
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Lasting Impact (rebroadcast) from 2019-07-27T07:00
In Oregon, the concussion protocols that were supposed to keep high school athletes safe end up falling short for a star quarterback.
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In Harm’s Way from 2019-07-20T07:00
The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know. Then, we revisit a story from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, looki...
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Silencing Science (Rebroadcast) from 2019-07-13T07:00
President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has downplayed the science of climate change and sought to silence scientists working for t...
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The Military's Deadliest Helicopter (Rebroadcast) from 2019-06-29T07:00
How did one helicopter become the deadliest aircraft in the US military? To find out, Reveal partners with Investigative Studios, the production arm of the Investigative Reporting Program at the...
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Cops on a Crime Spree (Rebroadcast) from 2019-06-22T07:00
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...
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Hate is all around you from 2019-06-15T07:00
In the second part of Reveal’s series about hate, we look at how racism and white supremacy are institutionalized in America.
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Hate in the homeland from 2019-06-08T07:00
This episode surveys the state of the hate movement in America, focusing on how hate groups are spreading their message and winning converts.
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To the ends of the Earth from 2019-06-01T07:00
We travel the globe, from bottom to top, to confront the growing threats from climate change.****
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The City – Revealed (Rebroadcast) from 2019-05-25T07:00
A giant, mysterious illegal dump in Chicago was part of a federal investigation that brought down a dozen corrupt politicians, but it left neighborhood residents angry and feeling used.
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The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care from 2019-05-18T07:00
Residential care homes seem like the perfect place for Mom or Grandpa to live out their golden years, but their home-like facades are hiding rampant wage theft and exploitation of caregivers. Re...
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When Tasers Fail from 2019-05-11T07:00
A Taser is supposed to help police resolve a situation without using their guns. But in police departments across America, Tasers aren’t always living up to their promise, sometimes with lethal ...
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Monumental Lies (Rebroadcast) from 2019-05-04T07:00
Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” Plus, ...
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America’s Drug War, Revealed from 2019-04-27T07:00
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.
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Flood Thy Neighbor (Rebroadcast) from 2019-04-13T07:00
Some people who live along the Mississippi River are willing to do anything to keep their homes and farms safe from flooding – even if it means inundating their own neighbors. This week, we team...
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Trans National Migration from 2019-04-06T07:00:32
We meet an immigration judge who rejected nearly every asylum case that came before her, then follow a transgender woman as she tries to claim asylum. Finally, we go to Turkey, where young Afgha...
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Captain Boycott from 2019-04-04T07:00
Before there were boycotts, there was Captain Boycott. Meet the man who gave name to a new kind of protest.
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The Right to Boycott from 2019-03-30T07:00:22
“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 u...
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Behind Trump's Energy Dominance (Rebroadcast) from 2019-03-23T07:00
Reveal received a secret recording of oil industry executives rejoicing over the “unprecedented access” they have to David Bernhardt, the No. 2 official at the Interior Department. President Don...
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Pizzagate: A Slice of Fake News (Rebroadcast) from 2019-03-16T07:00:29
A journey into the world of right-wing Twitter trolls, pro-Trump political operatives and fake-news profiteers from St. Louis to Macedonia, to answer one big question: How did America become a p...
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Bitter Custody from 2019-03-09T08:00:53
A controversial theory about child abuse is swaying family court judges to award custody to parents accused of harming kids. We trace the origins of “parental alienation.”
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A Desperate Bargain from 2019-03-02T08:00:17
Parents are forced to give up custody to get their children medical and psychological treatments. Also, a Trump administration practice forces parents to risk deportation in order to claim their...
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The red line: Racial disparities in lending (Rebroadcast) from 2019-02-23T08:00
It’s been 10 years since the great housing bust and lending is back for some Americans, but not for others. In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny loans to appli...
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Five Years on Nauru from 2019-02-16T08:00:44
Children refusing to eat, talk, or even drink water. A surreal mental illness sweeps across families stuck in an Australian immigrant detention camp on a tiny island nation in the South Pacific....
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Lasting Impact from 2019-02-09T08:00
In Oregon, the concussion protocols that were supposed to keep high school athletes safe end up falling short for a star quarterback.
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When They Took My Son (rebroadcast) from 2019-02-02T08:00
We examine the stories of two families separated in 2018 at the U.S.-Mexico border and how what happened to them matches up with what the government said was supposed to happen.
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The Mystery of Mountain Jane Doe (rebroadcast) from 2019-01-26T08:00:25
Investigators dig up an unidentified murder victim, 45 years after she was buried, in an attempt to give her back her name. The exhumation leads to a series of unexpected revelations about who s...
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The Military's Deadliest Helicopter from 2019-01-19T08:00
How did one helicopter become the deadliest aircraft in the US military? To find out, Reveal partners with Investigative Studios, the production arm of the Investigative Reporting Program at the...
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The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks (rebroadcast) from 2019-01-12T08:00
In 1971, a 22-year-old journalist named Robert Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He told him to go to room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, bring enough clothes for at least a m...
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Silencing Science from 2019-01-05T08:00
President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has downplayed the science of climate change and sought to silence scientists working for t...
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The City (Revealed) from 2018-12-22T08:00:03
A giant mysterious illegal dump in Chicago was part of a federal investigation that brought down a dozen corrupt politicians, but it left neighborhood residents angry and feeling used.
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Sins of the Fathers from 2018-12-15T08:00
In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, the Catholic church had a problem with Jesuit priests sexually abusing children. The church’s first solution was to send the priests to remote Native village...
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Monumental Lies from 2018-12-08T08:00
Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” We tea...
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Al Letson Reveals: Jerome Corsi from 2018-12-03T11:00
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Trial and terror (rebroadcast) from 2018-12-01T08:00
The recent killing of 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue refocused the nation’s attention on right-wing extremist terrorists. Meanwhile, the Trump administration points to radical Islam as...
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Burning Hotter and Faster from 2018-11-24T08:00
Half of California’s 10 worst wildfires have struck in the last two years. We look at the recent Camp Fire, which is the deadliest and most destructive in state history. And we revisit an invest...
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Case Cleared (Part 2) from 2018-11-17T08:00
He seemed to confess to the crime, twice to his ex-girlfriend, once to police. But prosecutors never charged him. The reasons why show how rape myths continue to influence how justice is meted o...
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Case Cleared (Part 1) from 2018-11-10T08:00:28
When police closed the rape case against Bryan Kind, they made it look like it had been solved. But he never was arrested – or even charged. We team up with Newsy and ProPublica to investigate h...
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Working Through the Pain at Tesla from 2018-11-03T07:00
After being called out for hiding worker injuries at its factory, Tesla decides to double down. Plus, a report card on diversity in Silicon Valley.
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Coming Soon: Working Through the Pain at Tesla from 2018-11-01T07:00
After being called out for hiding worker injuries at its factory, Tesla doubles down. Hear a sneak preview of our latest investigation.
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The Storm After the Storm from 2018-10-27T07:00
Doctors in Puerto Rico are outraged at the government’s unexpected decision to declare the Zika crisis over in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Plus, communities in Houston and North Carolina s...
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Coming Soon: The Storm After the Storm from 2018-10-25T20:59:59
2017 was the worst hurricane season on record. A year later, we look at how Hurricane Harvey has made it almost impossible for people to find affordable housing in Houston. Listen to a sneak p...
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Who Gets to Vote? from 2018-10-20T07:00
Approaching 2018’s midterms, the country has its eyes locked on Georgia’s governor’s race. It’s a close contest between Stacey Abrams, a former state congresswoman who could become the first-eve...
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Coming Soon: Who Gets to Vote? from 2018-10-18T07:00
Get a sneak preview of Saturday’s show where we investigate voter suppression ahead of the midterm elections.
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Hunting the Ghost Fleet (rebroadcast) from 2018-10-13T07:00
We hike through the jungles of El Salvador to find an elusive fleet of shark-fishing boats implicated in overfishing and possible human trafficking. Then we join a UN mission to intercept a crew...
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10 Years or Life from 2018-10-06T07:00
An accused man faces an impossible choice in New Orleans. Plus, a new district attorney in Philadelphia sets out to undo the work of those who came before him.
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When They Took My Son from 2018-09-29T07:00:52
A 6-year-old child sleeps in a vacant office building, surrounded by strangers. An infant is taken from his breastfeeding mother. We examine the stories of two families separated at the U.S.-Mex...
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Coming Soon: When They Took My Son from 2018-09-27T05:07:02
At 7 years old, Wilson was taken from his mother as part of the Trump administration’s policy of family separation this summer. Our next show tells you what happened to him.
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Never Meet Your (Super) Heroes from 2018-09-22T07:00
There’s a new battlefield in the culture wars: comic books. The alt-right now has gotten in the business, led by a buxom, Confederate flag-waving superhero named Rebel and a white vigilante who ...
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Misconceptions (rebroadcast) from 2018-09-15T07:00
Desperate to have a child, a couple puts its trust in a fertility clinic that promises more than it can deliver. They enter a world where some clinics take unnecessary risks to make them look fa...
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The Messy Truth About Victim Compensation from 2018-09-08T07:00:54
Victim compensation funds are supposed to help victims of crime cover lost wages or funeral expenses. But Reveal teamed up with The Marshall Project and discovered that in some states, African A...
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Flood Thy Neighbor from 2018-09-01T07:00
Some people who live along the Mississippi River are willing to do anything to keep their homes and farms safe from flooding – even if it means inundating their own neighbors. This week, we team...
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How Bernie Made Off: Are we safe from the next Ponzi scheme? (rebroadcast) from 2018-08-25T07:00
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Across the Desert and the Sea (rebroadcast) from 2018-08-18T07:00
African migrants fleeing persecution or seeking opportunity often end up in Libya, where they are tortured and trafficked. Many try to escape to Europe, only to be intercepted at sea a...
No place to run (rebroadcast) from 2018-08-11T07:00
In Texas, the foster care system is failing the vulnerable children it’s meant to protect, leaving many without a safe place to live. Foster children often end up on the streets or in ...
Trapped: Abuse and Neglect in Private Care from 2018-08-04T07:00
Deep in the backroads of central Florida, hidden between trees dripping with Spanish moss, sits the campus of an infamous center for the developmentally disabled. Its story shows what ...
Take No Prisoners: Inside a WWII American War Crime from 2018-07-28T07:00
In December 1944, Adolf Hitler surprised the Allies with a secret counterattack through the Ardennes forest, known today as the Battle of the Bulge. In the carnage that followed, there...
Poisoned, Ignored and Evicted: The Perils of Living With Lead (rebroadcast) from 2018-07-21T07:00
Old paint, old pipes and demolition dust often are sources of toxic lead. It’s a poison known to cause neurological damage in children. For adults, new science shows lead exposure incr...
Behind Trump's Energy Dominance from 2018-07-14T07:00
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 vill...
Families Splintered Apart, by Government and by Storms from 2018-07-07T07:00
This week, we continue our ongoing investigation into what happens to immigrant children after they’re detained by the U.S. government. Our latest story investigates a vacant office bu...
Hunting the Ghost Fleet from 2018-06-30T07:00
This week’s episode of Reveal investigates shark fishing in Central America and a U.S.-based seafood company that claims to be a model of sustainability.
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Al Letson Reveals: Pussy Riot from 2018-06-28T07:00
Far from the World Cup stadium cheers, a prisoner held in Russia is six weeks into a hunger strike.
Reveal host Al Letson talks with Masha Alyokhina, a founding member of the ...
Ripped Apart: Families Separated at the Border from 2018-06-23T07:00:45
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 migr...
Reveal Answers Your Questions About Immigration from 2018-06-09T04:00:10
Last fall, we threw out a simple question after a show about U.S. immigration policies: What do you wish you knew about immigration?
Across the country, listeners responded w...
Cops on a Crime Spree from 2018-06-02T04:00
Baltimore’s police department was already notorious.
But this year, eight former police officers were convicted on federal racketeering charges stemming from an FBI investigat...
Inside a Rehab Empire from 2018-05-31T04:00
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 ...
What cops aren't learning (rebroadcast) from 2018-05-26T07:00
Some police departments are embracing a set of tactics designed to reduce the use of force – and prevent police shootings. Rather than rushing in aggressively, officers back off, wait ...
Across the Desert and the Sea from 2018-05-19T04:05:37
African migrants fleeing persecution or seeking opportunity often end up in Libya, where they are tortured and trafficked. Many try to escape to Europe, only to be intercepted at sea a...
Reveal Presents: The View from Room 205 from 2018-05-12T04:05:54
In 2014, WBEZ Chicago reporter Linda Lutton followed a class of fourth-graders at William Penn Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. She wanted to explore a big idea that’s at the ...
More to the Story: Wildfires from 2018-05-09T16:24:59
Reveal revisits our investigation into California’s deadliest wildfires. Last October, more than 170 fires ripped across Northern California, burning more than 9,000 buildings, causing...
More to the Story: Redlining from 2018-05-05T04:05:14
Reveal digs deep – and gets results. By mining data from 31 million records, we discovered a pattern of routine mortgage loan denials to applicants of color in more than 60 U.S. metrop...
Institutions of Higher Earning (rebroadcast) from 2018-04-28T04:05:14
Across the country, universities are being criticized over issues of money: from how they spend their endowments, to how they raise tuition, to how they award financial aid. Many stude...
Trumping Hate from 2018-04-21T04:05:54
There’s been a lot of conversation about whether Donald Trump has inspired a new wave of hate in America. Reveal reporter Will Carless set out to understand the president’s role in hun...
Tesla and Beyond: Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley from 2018-04-14T04:05:44
Tech companies in Silicon Valley are under the microscope for not living up to their idealistic pledges to save the world. On this week’s episode of Reveal, we investigate companies on...
Trump’s Mystery Mansion from 2018-04-12T04:05:15
In 2008, a small-time scam artist transferred a Beverly Hills mansion to Donald Trump for $0. Reveal reporters Lance Williams and Matt Smith tried to figure out why. The people involve...
Checking into President Trump’s Washington DC Hotel from 2018-04-07T04:05:51
In 2016, the Justice Department alleged that Malaysian officials stole billions of dollars from their people and funneled some of it through the United States. Reveal teamed up with Wa...
Full of Lead: How Bullets are Poisoning Eagles from 2018-04-04T22:10:37
Lead – the toxic metal used for years in paint, plumbing, mining and more – still poisons people in all kinds of ways. Lead also kills wildlife when animals scavenge carcasses shot wit...
Poisoned, ignored and evicted: The perils of living with lead from 2018-03-31T04:05:42
The toxic water of Flint, Michigan, reminded us that lead is a very persistent poison. This week, Reveal investigates the lurking threat of lead from the dust of urban demolitions to t...
Where criminals get their guns (rebroadcast) from 2018-03-24T04:05:39
Across the country, criminals are arming themselves in unexpected ways. In Florida, they’re stealing guns from unlocked cars and gun stores. In other places, they’re getting them from ...
The kids aren’t all right (rebroadcast) from 2018-03-17T04:05:58
Federal law requires colleges and universities to track and disclose sexual assaults on campus. It’s different for kindergarten through 12th grade, where there are no similar requireme...
Built to Burn from 2018-03-14T04:05:19
Last year, California had its deadliest and most destructive wildfire season in recorded history. No fire killed more people or burned down more buildings than the Tubbs Fire. Reveal i...
Warning System Down: California’s Deadliest Fires from 2018-03-10T05:05:24
Wildfires raged across Northern California in October, burning through the state’s famed Napa and Sonoma wine regions. In all, more than 170 blazes ripped across an area the size of Ma...
Video: Atomic vets from 2018-03-08T05:05:04
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans took part in nuclear tests after World War II, and into the Cold War. Many of these vets suffer long-term health issues including lung problems a...
Deja Nuke: Return of the Nuclear Threat from 2018-03-03T05:05:41
With the threat of nuclear war once again a part of the national conversation, Reveal looks at nuclear threats both foreign and domestic. This episode takes listeners to Iran and finds...
My Town, Chi-Town from 2018-02-24T05:05:08
Chicago is experiencing a reversal of the great migration that propelled African Americans northward in search of opportunity in the first half of the 20th century. Since 2000, a quart...
The red line: Racial disparities in lending from 2018-02-17T05:05:54
It’s been 10 years since the great housing bust and lending is back. Not everyone is getting a fair shot at getting a loan. In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more lik...
Dropped and dismissed: Child sex abuse lost in the system (rebroadcast) from 2018-02-10T05:05:57
The scandal around USA Gymnastics and former Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar is shining a spotlight on the sexual abuse of young athletes. This week, Reveal revisits the story of a wo...
How Bernie Made Off: Are we safe from the next Ponzi scheme? from 2018-02-03T05:05:10
Bernard Madoff may be a fading memory from the past, but for reporter Steve Fishman, the fallen financier’s story holds lessons for today. Madoff masterminded one of the biggest Ponzi ...
Too Many Pills from 2018-01-27T05:05:37
On Reveal, we share how the government failed to stop the opioid epidemic. A Washington Post/60 Minutes partnership with Reveal tells the story of how a DEA insider and his team of law...
#MeToo: Rape on the Night Shift from 2018-01-20T05:05:04
The #MeToo movement has swept from Hollywood to Capitol Hill. The careers of powerful men ended as women spoke out against workplace harassment and assault. On this episode of Reveal, ...
Video: Fought for, Forgotten from 2018-01-11T06:27:12
This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender...
The Tide is High from 2018-01-06T05:05:53
The damage inflicted on the United States by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria will likely make the 2017 hurricane season the costliest in our history. But what is the government doing...
A Revealing Year from 2017-12-30T05:05:14
Reveal has had a busy year – our team has chased stories from Oklahoma to Bermuda. We exposed a rehab program that provides labor at a chicken processing plant that’s been called a sla...
Fire and Justice from 2017-12-23T05:05:48
In 1988, two powerful explosions shook Kansas City, Missouri, killing six firefighters. Nine years later, five people were convicted of arson and sent to prison for life – but were the...
The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks from 2017-12-16T06:05:34
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections seems to yield a new bombshell every week. Amid such high-profile revelations, we revisit a d...
Institutions of Higher Earning from 2017-12-09T06:05
Across the country, universities are being criticized over issues of money: from how they spend their endowments, to how they raise tuition, to how they award financial aid. Many stude...
Video: Based on a True Story from 2017-12-07T07:06:40
This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender...
Where criminals get their guns from 2017-12-02T06:05:47
Across the country, criminals are arming themselves in unexpected ways. In Florida, they’re stealing guns from unlocked cars and gun stores. In other places, they’re getting them from ...
Video: Until Something is Done from 2017-11-30T06:59:39
This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender...
Her own devices: Is a contraceptive implant making us sick? from 2017-11-25T06:05:45
In Texas, women with limited access to abortions are traveling across the border to find a drug that will induce miscarriages. In Mississippi, anti-abortion groups are opening crisis p...
Pizzagate: A slice of fake news from 2017-11-18T06:05:49
On this episode of Reveal, we look at #Pizzagate. This story takes us into the world of right-wing Twitter trolls, pro-Trump political operatives and fake-news profiteers from St. Loui...
Video: Grieving in a Fishbowl from 2017-11-16T18:58:32
This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender...
Losing ground from 2017-11-11T06:05:37
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 evicte...
The Paradise Papers from 2017-11-05T19:00:04
Remember the Panama Papers? It was a massive 2015 document leak that exposed a system in which offshore companies enable crime and corruption. The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation ...