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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Casey Miner |Julie Caine
Abortion wasn't always controversial. In fact, in colonial America it would have been considered a fairly common practice: a private decision made by women, and aided mostly by midwives. But in the mid-1800s, a small group of physicians set out to change that. Obstetrics was a new field, and they wanted it to be their domain—meaning, the domain of men and medicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Devin Katayama |Lawrence Wu
Whose job is it to educate Americans? Congress created the first Department of Education just after the Civil War as a way to help reunify a broken country. A year later, it was basically shut down. But the story of that first department's birth – and death – set the stage for everything that's come since.
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3 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine
From Social Security and the minimum wage to exit signs and fire escapes, Frances Perkins transformed how people in the U.S. lived and worked. Today on the show: how a middle class do-gooder became one of the savviest and most powerful people in American politics — and built the social safety net we have today. Guests:Kirstin Downey, author of The Woman Behind the New DealStephanie Dray,author of
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4 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Peter Balonon-Rosen |Casey Miner
The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable? That question has fueled a century's worth of court rulings that have dramatically expanded the power of individual police officers in the U.S. Today on the show, how an amendment that was supposed to limit government power has ended up enabling it. This episode originally published in 2024.
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1 month ago | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah
The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern federal civil service.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Cristina Kim |Anya Steinberg
On today's episode, we travel from the battlefields of the U.S. Civil War, through the rubble of two world wars, to the hallways of the Hague, to see how the modern world has tried to define — and prosecute — war crimes. This episode originally aired as "The Rules of War" in 2024. Guests:Michael Bryant, Professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant UniversityDavid Bosco, author of
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Lawrence Wu
Gangsters, banksters, and politicians. Today on the show, how the hunt for Al Capone helped turn the IRS into one of the U.S. government's most powerful tools — and most effective weapons. Guests:Joe Thorndike, historian for Tax Analysts and author of Their Fair Share: Taxing the Rich in the Age of FDR. Paul Camacho, retired special agent for the IRS Criminal Investigation Division and member of the board of directors at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Lawrence Wu |Devin Katayama |Cristina Kim | +2 more
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Anya Steinberg |Cristina Kim
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. GuestsBill Lascher, author of The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees. Mark Wild, professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. Elisa Minoff, director of economic security and senior fellow in policy history at the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
