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• Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

  Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential American service survive and thrive. Visit donate.npr.org now. Learn more about sponsor message choices:...

  18 jul 2025 121 sec.

• Edward Said and the Question of Palestine

  Edward Said brought the question of Palestine into the American mainstream. He taught at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, and today, more than two decades after his death, pro-Palestine student protesters on that campus and...

  17 jul 2025 3059 sec.

• What Makes Us Free?

  What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might feel like a squishy term that's hard to define and understand. But this ideology, founded...

  10 jul 2025 2949 sec.

• Does America Need a Hero?

  Captain America: an all-American superhero. Clad in red, white, and blue, he carries only a shield. And he fights only when he must. When it's right. But what happens when what's right isn't so clear? And how does a comic book hero...

  3 jul 2025 3065 sec.

• Iran and the U.S., Part Three: Soleimani's Iran

  The Iran-Iraq war, 9/11, and the story of Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani, from his rise to power, to his assassination, by the U.S., to the power his legacy wields now. This episode originally ran as Soleimani's...

  29 jun 2025 2733 sec.

• Iran and the U.S., Part Two: Rules of Engagement

  Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the fraught moment we're in today. This episode originally ran as Rules of Engagement . You can...

  28 jun 2025 2799 sec.

• What the Supreme Court Does in the Shadows

  The Supreme Court is issuing its final decisions of the term this month. But it's been extraordinarily active since January, in part because the Trump administration has submitted over a dozen emergency applications asking the court to...

  26 jun 2025 2889 sec.

• Iran and the U.S., Part One: Four Days in August

  The U.S. and Iran have had a tense relationship for decades — but when did that begin? This week, we feature our very first episode about an event from August 1953 — when the CIA helped to overthrow Iran's prime minister. This episode...

  24 jun 2025 2185 sec.

• Abortion Before Roe

  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...

  19 jun 2025 3116 sec.

• The First Department of Education

  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...

  12 jun 2025 2888 sec.

• The Woman Behind The New Deal

  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...

  5 jun 2025 2928 sec.

• We the People: Search and Seizure

  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...

  29 mei 2025 2886 sec.