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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 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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Nov 7, 2024 | 
npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Lawrence Wu |Julie Caine |Devin Katayama |Cristina Kim | +3 more
What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral College might surprise you and make you think differently about not only this upcoming presidential election, but our democracy as a whole.
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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 18, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | Robert Leslie |Teresa Zhang |Sarah Wyman
When pollsters failed to see the surge of support for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, it seemed like a low point for the industry. But in fact, surveys are getting more accurate, as a look through the archives shows.
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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.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Lawrence Wu |Devin Katayama |Julie Caine |Casey Miner | +7 more
Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to control it. And that struggle goes back centuries. Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented, massive military campaign to take Jerusalem from Muslims and claim the holy city for themselves. They won a shocking victory – but it didn't last. A Muslim leader named Saladin raised an army to take the city back.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Katie Hafner |Sarah Wyman |Elah Feder
It’s the early 1960s, and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the best-selling drugs. Contergan’s active ingredient is thalidomide, and it is touted as a wonder drug, a nonaddictive sedative that is safer than barbiturates. In the U.S. the drug is called Kevadon, and its distributor is impatient to get it on the market.
