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Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story.
Posted inAccountability

How a 7-Year Prison Sentence Turns Into Over 100

Portrait of steven rascón by Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson February 18, 2023March 3, 2023

Anthony Gay was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation. He ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. How did that happen?

An illustration shows a kid sitting on a book, trying to puzzle out words that are gibberish.
Posted inEducation

How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

Portrait of steven rascón by Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson February 11, 2023February 13, 2023

Many schools teach reading using an approach that can actually make it harder for kids to learn. They’re taught strategies like “look at the picture” and “think of a word that makes sense.” This episode is a partnership with American Public Media’s Sold a Story podcast.

Posted inAccountability

Inside the Global Fight for White Power

Jess AlvarengaPortrait of steven rascón by Sarah Mirk, Taki Telonidis, Jess Alvarenga, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Nikki Frick, Brett Myers and Al Letson February 4, 2023February 6, 2023

White nationalists around the globe are working together to disrupt multicultural societies and Western democracies.

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Posted inHealth Care

A Miracle Cure for AIDS or Snake Oil?

by Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson January 28, 2023January 27, 2023

In the 1990s, a Black doctor said he may have found a cure for AIDS – but federal regulators insisted it didn’t work. What was its true potential? This episode is a partnership with the Serum podcast from WHYY and Local Trance Media.

Posted inPrisons

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

by Michael Montgomery, Najib Aminy, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Kathryn Styer Martínez January 21, 2023March 3, 2023

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

In a black and white photo, Ernest Withers wears a suit and holds two cameras.
Posted inAccountability

The Double Life of a Civil Rights Icon

Portrait of steven rascón by Taki Telonidis, Steven Rascón, Kassandra Navarro, Brett Myers and Al Letson January 14, 2023January 26, 2023

Photographer Ernest Withers chronicled the civil rights movement. Did he also betray it?

Posted inSustainability

Drilling Down on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

Portrait of steven rascón by Elizabeth Shogren, Jonathan Jones, Emily Schwing, Taki Telonidis, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs, Steven Rascón, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Al Letson, Katharine Mieszkowski, D. Victoria Baranetsky and Nikki Frick January 7, 2023January 23, 2023

The U.S. has promised to move away from fossil fuels, but the natural gas industry is booming.

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A Family Divided Over Jan. 6: ‘Traitors Get Shot’

Portrait of steven rascón by Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Steven Rascón, Cynthia Rodriguez and Al Letson December 31, 2022January 17, 2023

As the threat of criminal charges looms over Donald Trump, a look into the case against the first insurrectionist to be prosecuted.

Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez sits on concrete steps, looking at the camera. She wears pink scrubs.
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A Young Doctor Reflects on COVID

Portrait of steven rascón by Brett Myers, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson December 24, 2022January 17, 2023

As COVID-19 has now claimed more than 1 million lives in the United States, we follow a rookie doctor who graduated at the height of the pandemic.

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Posted inAccountability

The Suspect Detective

Portrait of steven rascón by Najib Aminy, Jenny Casas, Amy Mostafa, Nikki Frick, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis, Brett Myers and Al Letson December 17, 2022February 27, 2023

A Philadelphia homicide detective on the rise abused his power in bizarre and extreme ways. How did he get away with it for so long?

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