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COVID Lockdowns Ep. 1: When the World Stopped
March 2020: playgrounds chained shut, empty streets stretching for miles, and billions of people—sick or healthy—ordered to stay home. It had never happened in...
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Thinking Green Ep. 1: When Doomsday Didn't Come
In 1970, a Smithsonian scientist warned that 80% of all animal species would vanish by 1995. A Stanford professor predicted hundreds of millions would...
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Cesar Chavez Ep. 1: Who Picked Your Breakfast?
The strawberries in your cereal, the grapes in your jam—who picked them? For most of American history, farmworkers remained invisible. Young Cesar Chavez lived...
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Women Who Changed America Ep. 1: Invisible by Law
What if getting married meant you legally ceased to exist? In early America, that was reality. Under coverture laws, a wife couldn't own property,...
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Presidential Power Ep. 1: The Fear of Creating a King
They had just escaped one king—the last thing America's founders wanted was to create another. In the sweltering summer of 1787, men gathered in...
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Valentine's Day Ep. 1: A Martyr, Not a Matchmaker
Think Valentine's Day started with a kind priest secretly marrying young lovers? Think again. The real Saint Valentine—actually several men by that name—died as...