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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-01-18

  In Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves

It’s been 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in serving and defending the count...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author
2025-01-11

  All the President’s Pardons

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son and President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to set free people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, bring back memories of what’s considered the most controversial pardon ever: Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richar...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author
2025-01-04

  Fortress Europe: The Fight for Refugees in Greece

In 2015, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and repression were trying to reach safe havens in Europe. From his home in Norway, Tommy Olsen decided to travel to Greece, a major gateway for migrants and refugees. He joined hundreds of volunteer...
  Dinah Rothenberg, Viola Funk, and Franziska Grillmeier author
2024-12-28

  Take No Prisoners

It was their first day in battle and the two best friends had just switched places. Bob Fordyce rested while Frank Hartzell crawled down into the shallow foxhole, taking his turn chipping away at the frozen ground. Just then, German artillery fire bega...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author
2024-12-21

  A Whistleblower in New Folsom Prison

When Valentino Rodriguez started his job at a high-security prison in Sacramento, California, informally known as New Folsom, he thought he was entering a brotherhood of correctional officers who hold each other to a high standard of conduct.Five years...
  Sukey Lewis, Julie Small author
2024-12-14

  50 States of Mind

Every summer, 50 of the nation’s best and brightest teenage girls gather in Mobile, Alabama, to embark on two of the most intense weeks of their lives. Everybody wants the same thing: to walk away with a $40,000 college scholarship and the title of Dis...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author
2024-12-07

  The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston

Note: This episode contains descriptions of violence and suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners. In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hos...
  Adrian Walker, Al Letson author
2024-11-30

  Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2

Chief Red Cloud was a Lakota leader in the late 1800s, when the conflict between the US government and Native Americans was intense, and he was the tribal chief when the Catholic church built a boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dak...
  Mary Annette Pember, Al Letson author
2024-11-23

  Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1

In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. One day, he says he stumbled upon small graves in the school’s basement. For nearly 30 years, Pourier ...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author
2024-11-16

  The Many Contradictions of a Trump Victory

As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House for a second term, the reasons people voted him into office are becoming more clear. For Micki Witthoeft, it’s cause for celebration. Her daughter, Ashli Babitt, was shot and killed by a police officer ...
  The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX author