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Border Trilogy Part 3: What Remains
April 20, 2018
Part Three of our Border Trilogy, in which we hear the story of a woman from Ecuador who died in the Arizona desert. And we ask, what could stop migrants from risking so much?
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Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line
April 6, 2018
Part Two of our Border Trilogy, in which one Border Patrol agent changes the entire agency’s enforcement strategy, and one anthropologist tries to measure its deadly consequences.
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Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence
March 23, 2018
Part One of our Border Trilogy, in which we chronicle an unlikely legal showdown between high schoolers in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and the US Border Patrol.
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Rippin’ the Rainbow an Even Newer One
March 15, 2018
The creature with the world’s most complex visual system seems to be terrible at telling colors apart.
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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show
February 23, 2018
In 2008, the Supreme Court stepped in to settle our fight over the Second Amendment’s meaning. They did. And they didn’t.
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The Curious Case of the Russian Flash Mob at the West Palm Beach Cheesecake Factory
February 20, 2018
When Robert Mueller released his indictment a few days ago, alleging that 13 Russian nationals colluded to disrupt the 2016 elections, we had a lot of questions.
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Smarty Plants
February 13, 2018
Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn?
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Ghosts of Football Past
February 3, 2018
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be.
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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - One Nation, Under Money
January 31, 2018
A look at the government’s secret power to control almost everything around you.
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The Voice in Your Head - A Tribute to Joe Frank
January 23, 2018
How do you pay proper tribute to a legend that many people haven’t heard of?
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