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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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May 3, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Anya Steinberg |Casey Miner | +7 more
The birth of the modern consumer movement Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1197958936/1249059829" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Today on the show, the story of the modern consumer movement in the U.S. and the person who inspired it: Ralph Nader.
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May 2, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Peter Balonon-Rosen |Casey Miner |Julie Caine |Lawrence Wu | +3 more
The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1198908764/1248580146" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable?
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Cristina Kim |Devin Katayama | +3 more
The Ghost in Your Phone (Throwback) Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1198908739/1246904918" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images It's hot. A mother works outside, a baby strapped to her back. The two of them breathe in toxic dust, day after day.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
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Whether it's pesticides in your cereal or the door plug flying off your airplane, consumers today have plenty of reasons to feel like corporations might not have their best interests at heart. At a moment where we're seeing unprecedented product recalls, and when trust in the government is near historic lows, we're going to revisit a time when a generation of people felt empowered to demand accountability from both companies and elected leaders - and got results.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It's shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control — they've all been built on the back of the 14th.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Lawrence Wu |Casey Miner |Julie Caine |Anya Steinberg | +3 more
Keystone Features/Getty Images Keystone Features/Getty Images Starting in the 1930s, Harold Rugg, the unofficial father of social studies, published a series of historical textbooks that encouraged students to confront the country's chronic problems of racism and class conflict. The textbooks set off a firestorm that echoes today's debates over what kids should and shouldn't learn in school.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Reading) For the conviction of the accused, every weapon is provided and used, even those poisoned by wrong and injustice. But what machinery is provided for the defense of the innocent? None. Absolutely none. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: It's 1893, and a well-known lawyer named Clara Foltz has traveled halfway across the country, all the way from her home in California, to give a speech at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
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RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: Every year around this time, my inner Larry David comes popping out because of Valentine's Day. Now, I know I'm not original in feeling this way, but Valentine's Day is kind of like the worst of the modern manufactured holidays, because it's a day when we're all reminded of ideal love stories, when we're pushed to express romantic love in scripted ways where it kind of just all feels forced.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
npr.org | Cristina Kim |Lawrence Wu |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Rund Abdelfatah |Anya Steinberg | +3 more
CRISTINA KIM, BYLINE: Before we get started, a note to listeners that this episode includes exploration of racist material. RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: So the other day I was reading this book about the First Crusade. It's a moment in history that anyone who knows me knows I have long been obsessed with. And in one passage, there was a detailed description of what the city of Antioch in modern-day Syria was like then.
