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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Casey Miner |Devin Katayama | +3 more
Get Rich Quick: The American Lottery Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1242489340/1268826246" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Want to get rich quick? You're not alone. Right now, Americans spend over $100 billion, yes billion, every year on lottery tickets.
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2 months ago | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Casey Miner |Anya Steinberg |Julie Caine |Devin Katayama | +3 more
The Anti-Vaccine Movement Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1231104444/1266379017" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been repeatedly disproven: there is no evidence that vaccines and autism are related.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Anya Steinberg |Julie Caine |Sarah Wyman |Casey Miner | +4 more
Seeking Asylum in the U.S. Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1217308651/1263172653" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The U.S. has long professed to be a country where people can seek refuge. That's the promise etched into the base of the Statue of Liberty. But it's never been that clear-cut.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Devin Katayama |Lawrence Wu |Casey Miner |Julie Caine | +5 more
By the time his book went to press in London, on November 18, 1633, Thomas Morton had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. His crimes: drinking, carousing, and — crucially — building social and economic ties with Native people. His book outlined a vision for what America could become. A very different vision than that of the Puritans. But the book wouldn't be published that day. It wouldn't be published for years.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Casey Miner |Julie Caine |Sarah Wyman |Devin Katayama | +4 more
The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha Hale had on her mind when she sat down to write a letter to President Lincoln in 1863, deep into the Civil War. Hale had already spent years campaigning for a national day of thanksgiving, using her platform as editor of one the country's most widely-read magazines and writing elected officials to argue that Americans urgently needed a national story. But she'd gotten nowhere – until now.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Lawrence Wu |Casey Miner |Devin Katayama | +4 more
Behind the Scenes of ThroughlineToday on the show, we're taking you behind the scenes. We'll tell you how Throughline was born, some of what goes into making our episodes, and a little bit about how we make our special sauce — the Throughline rizz, as the kids say. If you want more of these behind-the-scenes conversations become a Throughline+ subscriber. You can find out more at plus.npr.org/throughline.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Linah Mohammad |Casey Miner |Devin Katayama | +5 more
The question of settlements has loomed over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades, and has only intensified in the past year. According to a UN report, since October 7, 2023, there has been a record surge in settlement activities and increased settler violence against Palestinians. Today on the show: how the settlement movement grew from a small religious mission to one of the central tenets of the current Israeli government.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Casey Miner |Julie Caine |Devin Katayama |Anya Steinberg | +5 more
Today on the show, two stories of building power in swing states: from the top down, and the bottom up. First, how a future Supreme Court justice helped launch a program to challenge voters at the Arizona polls in the early 1960s, in a county that's become a hotbed for election conspiracies in the decades since. Then, how a 1973 labor strike led by Arab Americans in a Michigan factory town sparked a political movement that could play a major role in the 2024 election.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Devin Katayama |Cristina Kim | +5 more
References to God and Christianity are sprinkled throughout American life. Our money has "In God We Trust" printed on it. Most presidents have chosen to swear their oath of office on the Bible. Christian nationalist beliefs are rooted in the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and that its laws should reflect certain Christian values. And versions of these beliefs are widely held by Americans of different ages, races, and backgrounds.
