Casey Miner

1 week ago | npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Anya Steinberg |Cristina Kim |Casey Miner |Julie Caine | +2 more

California's 'Bum Blockade' Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1249919763/1269278090" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The story of the Los Angeles police chief who, faced with one of the largest internal migrations in American history, tried to close California's borders to stop it. Guests Bill Lascher, author of The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Cristina Kim |Julie Caine |Casey Miner |Anya Steinberg | +4 more

Baby bonuses, childless cat ladies: the rhetoric around motherhood is politically charged right now. And the fantasy of an ideal mother remains powerful, even as real-life parents struggle to reconcile its demands. Today on the show, three myths of motherhood, and the people who have fought to break them down. This episode originally ran in 2023 as The Labor of Love.

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Julie Caine |Cristina Kim |Lawrence Wu |Devin Katayama | +2 more

The Deadly Story of the U.S. Civil Service Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1246832478/1269205844" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Hulton Archive/Getty Images Hulton Archive/Getty Images When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job.

4 weeks ago | npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Casey Miner |Cristina Kim | +2 more

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order invoking a centuries-old law: the Alien Enemies Act. The Act allows a president to detain or deport citizens of foreign adversaries to the United States, but only in the case of a "declared war" or "invasion." Now, the Trump administration and the courts are locked in a battle over whether the president's use of the Act, under which people have already been deported, is legal.

1 month ago | npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Casey Miner |Devin Katayama |Lawrence Wu | +6 more

Climate disaster, political unrest, random violence: Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." But is that actually true — or the way it has to be? Today on the show, what really happens when things fall apart. This episode originally published in 2023.