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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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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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