You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next.
Episodes
They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare agencies that separate mothers from their newborns.
A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided
A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.
The COVID Tracking Project Part 3
The last episode of our series looks at the myth of COVID-19 as “the great equalizer” and what went wrong in the CDC’s response to the pandemic.
The COVID Tracking Project Part 2
Part two of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
The COVID Tracking Project Part 1
This three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.
The Churn
People who experience psychosis often cycle through homelessness, emergency rooms, and jail. What happened to America’s mental health system?
Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church
Audio recordings provide an unprecedented look at the methods the Mormon church uses to keep child sexual abuse cases secret.
How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals
Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.
In Bondage to the Law
Toforest Johnson has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 25 years. Now, his conviction is being called into question.
