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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>In the late 1800s, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a city where African Americans thrived economically and held elected office. This did not sit well with White supremacists, who during the election of 1898 used violence to intimidate voters and overthrow the elected government. It’s considered the only successful coup d’etat in US history. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The leader of the coup, a former Confederate colonel named Alfred Moore Waddell, gave a speech in which he told White people: “If you see the Negro out voting tomorrow, tell him to stop. If he doesn't, shoot him down. Shoot him down in his tracks.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>This week on \u003cem>Reveal\u003c/em>, we look back at that coup and its consequences. After the overthrow, North Carolina legislators passed laws segregating White and Black people in housing, trains, schools, libraries, and other public spaces. Those laws were copied in states across the South, sowing the seeds of the Jim Crow era and much of the structural racism that continues today.\u003c/p>\u003cp>We then go further back in history, to just after the Civil War, when the US government made its famous “40 acres and a mule” promise to formerly enslaved people. Most Americans assume the promise of land was never kept, but over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists at the Center for Public Integrity unearthed records that prove freed people had, and lost, titles to tracts of land that once were part of plantations. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of episodes that originally aired in \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/remembering-a-white-supremacist-coup/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>October 2020\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-2/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>June 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/weekly\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>Instagram\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>This is an update of episodes that originally aired in October 2020 and June 2024. \u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Just a few years ago, Elon Musk seemed to be just another Silicon Valley billionaire with no true political compass. He once described himself as “half-Republican, half-Democrat” and often donated money to candidates from both parties. But all that seemed to change during the Covid-19 pandemic when Musk started taking much more right-wing stances about lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and many other divisive political issues, often spreading misinformation in the process.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Today, Musk has donated almost $120 million of his own money to get Donald Trump reelected. He recently campaigned with Trump at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where he said he wasn’t just MAGA, he was “dark, gothic MAGA.” Musk is using both his financial resources as the world’s richest person along with the soft power he wields on X, the social media platform he bought two years ago, where he routinely posts to his 200 million followers why they should vote for Trump.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In this \u003cem>Reveal\u003c/em> podcast extra, host Al Letson talks about Musk’s political evolution with \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> senior reporter Anna Merlan, who’s been covering the many ways Musk has tried to influence the 2024 election.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“There have always been billionaires and titans of industry who get involved in politics,” Merlan says. “But I think the scale of Musk’s involvement is really different because it’s not just that he’s a billionaire. It’s not just that he’s endorsing Trump. It’s also that he controls a powerful and widespread communication medium.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong> Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong> Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong> Instagram\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Read: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/twitter-x-subpoenas-elon-musk/\">\u003cstrong>Elon Musk’s Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Mother Jones)\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Read:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/how-elon-musk-is-tying-his-love-for-trump-to-his-fight-in-brazil/\">\u003cstrong>How Elon Musk is Tying His Love for Trump to His Fight in Brazil\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Mother Jones)\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "Just a few years ago, Elon Musk seemed to be just another Silicon Valley billionaire with no true political compass. He once described himself as “half-Republican, half-Democrat” and often donated money to candidates from both parties. But all that seemed to change during the Covid-19 pandemic when Musk started taking much more right-wing stances about lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and many other divisive political issues, often spreading misinformation in the process.\n\n\nToday, Musk has donated almost $120 million of his own money to get Donald Trump reelected. He recently campaigned with Trump at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where he said he wasn’t just MAGA, he was “dark, gothic MAGA.” Musk is using both his financial resources as the world’s richest person along with the soft power he wields on X, the social media platform he bought two years ago, where he routinely posts to his 200 million followers why they should vote for Trump.\n\n\nIn this Reveal podcast extra, host Al Letson talks about Musk’s political evolution with Mother Jones senior reporter Anna Merlan, who’s been covering the many ways Musk has tried to influence the 2024 election.\n\n\n“There have always been billionaires and titans of industry who get involved in politics,” Merlan says. “But I think the scale of Musk’s involvement is really different because it’s not just that he’s a billionaire. It’s not just that he’s endorsing Trump. It’s also that he controls a powerful and widespread communication medium.”\n\n\n\n\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram\n\n\nRead: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups (Mother Jones)\n\nRead: How Elon Musk is Tying His Love for Trump to His Fight in Brazil (Mother Jones)",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Every four years, the presidential election brings with it a perennial question about an essential voting bloc: Who will Black voters turn out for? \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> video correspondent Garrison Hayes has spent months on the campaign trail talking to Black voters about how they see the goals and limits of their own political power. He paid special attention to Black Republicans and a new crop of Black supporters of former President Donald Trump. \u003c/p>\u003cp>This week on \u003cem>Reveal\u003c/em>, we hear from voters at the Republican National Convention, a graduate from a historically Black university whose star is rising on the right after appearing in a viral video hugging Trump at a Chick-fil-A, and a Republican organizing other Black voters to turn out for Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The Reverend Rob Schenck was once one of America’s most powerful and influential evangelical leaders. He routinely lobbied legislators to adopt a Christian conservative agenda. Members of his anti-abortion activist group barricaded the doors and driveways of abortion clinics. He even trained wealthy couples to befriend Supreme Court justices in an attempt to persuade them to render judgments that would please conservative Christians.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But along the way, Schenck began doubting where the movement was taking him—and the country. His fellow activists seemed more interested in gaining power than advancing the tenets of humility and selflessness he remembers learning about when he first converted to Christianity. By the mid-2010s, he realized that he had been forging a dangerous, divisive path, one that was leading to a new Christian nationalism with Donald Trump as its figurehead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>“I’m afraid I helped build the ramp that took Trump to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” he says. “And that’s a very painful reality for me.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schenck has since left the movement and been ostracized by some of his former fellow activists for his opposition to Trump. In this podcast extra, Schenck sits down with host Al Letson to talk about his conversion into and out of Christian conservatism and what he’s doing today to rein in the very movement he helped to build.\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong> Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong> Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong> Instagram\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>A small church in a small town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been flexing its political muscle and building an outsized reputation for blurring the line between church and state. Pastor Don Lamb wants his congregants to be engaged in spiritual warfare and not be “head-in-the-sand, Jesus-loves-you kind of Christians,” especially when it comes to the local school board. \u003c/p>\u003cp>To Lamb, this is not a Christian takeover. Yet his church is influenced by an elusive, hard-to-pin-down movement whose followers believe that Christians are called to control the government and that former President Donald Trump was chosen by God. It’s called the New Apostolic Reformation, and it’s nothing like the culture war–fueled Moral Majority of yesteryear. There are prophets and apostles, and a spiritual war is underway, not just in Pennsylvania. To win, the church has to do more than just preach the gospel; it has to get political.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This week, Reveal’s Najib Aminy and Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler explain what the New Apostolic Reformation is and what happens when it seeps into small-town churches like Lamb’s. \u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop who heard Chelsea’s father’s confession of abuse to testify against him at trial? \u003c/p>\u003cp>In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with The Associated Press, secret audio recordings expose a legal playbook used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that keeps evidence of sex abuse out of reach of authorities.\u003c/p>\u003cp>AP reporters Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen investigate what happened after a former Mormon bishop, John Goodrich, was accused of sexual abuse—and the family pressed Mormon church officials on whether they were going to make decisions that would help Chelsea or her father. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Rezendes and Dearen also sit down with guest host Michael Montgomery to discuss a major development in the Goodrich case since this investigation was released last year—and why states across the country continue to exempt clergy from mandatory reporting laws that are meant to protect children from abuse.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/hidden-confessions-of-the-mormon-church/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>December 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no evidence pointing to the shooter. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Detectives ultimately zeroed in on a man named Toforest Johnson, who on that same night was with friends at a nightclub miles away. Johnson was tried twice for the murder and eventually convicted on the testimony of an “earwitness” – a woman who claimed to have overheard Johnson confessing to the crime. He has spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2019, investigative journalist Beth Shelburne began covering the case, finding details that cast major doubts about Johnson’s guilt. This week, in partnership with Lava for Good and the Earwitness podcast, Shelburne tells us the story of Johnson’s case. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lavaforgood.com/earlanding\">\u003cstrong>Click here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to hear the full Earwitness podcast.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/in-bondage-to-the-law/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>November 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong> Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong> Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong> Instagram\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly White residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks and marsh grass alongside golf courses, swimming pools and other amenities. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 1865, the island was a thriving Black community, started by freedmen who were given land by the government under the 40 acres program. They farmed, created a system of government and turned former cotton plantations into a Black American success story.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>But it wouldn’t last. Within two years, the government took that land back from the freedmen and returned it to the former enslavers. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Today, 40 acres in The Landings development are worth at least $20 million. The history of that land is largely absent from day-to-day life. But over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists at the Center for Public Integrity have unearthed records that prove that dozens of freed people had, and lost, titles to tracts at what’s now The Landings. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak,” said Linda Brown, one of the few Black residents at The Landings.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>This week on Reveal, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, we also show a descendant her ancestor’s title for a plot of land that is now becoming another exclusive gated community. And we look at how buried documents like these Reconstruction-era land titles are part of the long game toward reparations.\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land – only to see it returned to their enslavers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Patricia Bailey’s four-bedroom home sits high among the trees in lush Edisto Island, South Carolina. It’s a peaceful place where her body healed from multiple sclerosis. It’s also the source of her generational wealth.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Bailey built this house on land that was passed down by her great-great-grandfather, Jim Hutchinson, who was enslaved on Edisto before he was freed and became a landowner. \u003c/p>\u003cp>“I know this is sacred land here,” Bailey says, “’cause it's my ancestors and I feel it.” \u003c/p>\u003cp>Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15 – better known as 40 acres and a mule – implied a better life in the waning days of the Civil War. Hutchinson is among the formerly enslaved people who received land through the field orders, which are often thought of as a promise that was never kept. But 40 acres and a mule was more than that. \u003c/p>\u003cp>It was real.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Over a more than two-year investigation, our partners at the Center for Public Integrity have unearthed thousands of records once buried in the National Archives. In them, they found more than 1,200 formerly enslaved people who were given land by the federal government through the field orders – and then saw that land taken away. \u003c/p>\u003cp>None of the land Bailey lives on today is part of Hutchinson’s 40 acres. Instead, her family’s wealth is built on her ancestor’s determination to get and keep land of his own, after losing what he thought he had gained through the field orders.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This week on Reveal, with our partners at the Center for Public Integrity, we bring you the first in a three-part series in which we tell the history of an often-misunderstood government program. We explore a reparation that wasn’t – and the wealth gap that remains.\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This episode contains descriptions of violence and suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. \u003c/p>\u003cp>He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart’s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section, and days later, her son would die, too.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Stuart said he saw the man who did it: a Black man in a tracksuit. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Within hours, the killing had the city in a panic, and Boston police were tearing through Mission Hill looking for a suspect. \u003c/p>\u003cp>For a whole generation of Black men in Mission Hill who were subjected to frisks and strip searches, this investigation shaped their relationship with police. And it changed the way Boston viewed itself when the story took a dramatic turn and the true killer was revealed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>This week on Reveal, in partnership with columnist Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe and the “Murder in Boston” podcast, we bring you the untold story of the Stuart murder: one that exposed truths about race and crime that few White people in power wanted to confront. \u003c/p>\u003cp>To hear more of The Boston Globe’s investigation, listen to the 10-part podcast “\u003ca href=\"https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/2023/12/charles-stuart/murder-in-boston-charles-stuart-podcast/\">\u003cstrong>Murder in Boston\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.” The HBO documentary series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.max.com/shows/murder-in-boston-roots-rampage-reckoning/68af2b13-0855-4d8f-aca4-040802d63fcb\">\u003cstrong>Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>” is available to stream on Max. \u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong> Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong> Facebook\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong> Instagram\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>After six months of war in Gaza, the Palestinian medical infrastructure has collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of pregnant women without a safe place to deliver. Reporters Gabrielle Berbey and Salman Ahad Khan follow one mother over the final months of her pregnancy after she’s forced to leave behind her home, work and doctor in Gaza City. \u003c/p>\u003cp>We begin with the reporters’ first call to Lubna Al Rayyes five weeks into the war, as she is seven months pregnant with her third child. Before the war’s start on Oct. 7, Al Rayyes ran a prestigious school in Gaza City and her husband owned a clothing store. After being forced to evacuate their home, they fled to Khan Younis, but that city soon came under attack by the Israeli military as well. After being in regular contact with Al Rayyes for more than a month, the reporters lost contact with her. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Berbey and Khan then track down Al Rayyes’ sister, who was able to leave Gaza and relocate to Canada because of her husband’s Canadian citizenship. Canada’s Palestinian community lobbied the government to create an asylum program for displaced people in Gaza, but the program became mired in delays. Berbey and Khan eventually reconnect with Al Rayyes, who explains what happened with her delivery.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Beyond the collapse of the medical system, the health of Palestinians in Gaza is threatened by food shortages. Khan speaks with Tessa Roseboom, a Dutch researcher who’s been looking at how famine affects the development of babies in their mothers’ womb. We then meet Dr. Ghassan Jawad, an OB-GYN from Gaza who was forced to deliver babies in cars, shelters and even on the street as the medical system stopped functioning. Jawad had worked at Al-Shifa hospital, which was heavily damaged in a recent attack by the Israeli military. \u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Support Reveal’s journalism at\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong> Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "After six months of war in Gaza, the Palestinian medical infrastructure has collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of pregnant women without a safe place to deliver. Reporters Gabrielle Berbey and Salman Ahad Khan follow one mother over the final months of her pregnancy after she’s forced to leave behind her home, work and doctor in Gaza City. \nWe begin with the reporters’ first call to Lubna Al Rayyes five weeks into the war, as she is seven months pregnant with her third child. Before the war’s start on Oct. 7, Al Rayyes ran a prestigious school in Gaza City and her husband owned a clothing store. After being forced to evacuate their home, they fled to Khan Younis, but that city soon came under attack by the Israeli military as well. After being in regular contact with Al Rayyes for more than a month, the reporters lost contact with her. \nBerbey and Khan then track down Al Rayyes’ sister, who was able to leave Gaza and relocate to Canada because of her husband’s Canadian citizenship. Canada’s Palestinian community lobbied the government to create an asylum program for displaced people in Gaza, but the program became mired in delays. Berbey and Khan eventually reconnect with Al Rayyes, who explains what happened with her delivery.\nBeyond the collapse of the medical system, the health of Palestinians in Gaza is threatened by food shortages. Khan speaks with Tessa Roseboom, a Dutch researcher who’s been looking at how famine affects the development of babies in their mothers’ womb. We then meet Dr. Ghassan Jawad, an OB-GYN from Gaza who was forced to deliver babies in cars, shelters and even on the street as the medical system stopped functioning. Jawad had worked at Al-Shifa hospital, which was heavily damaged in a recent attack by the Israeli military. \n\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>As the war in Ukraine grinds into a third year, more Russian soldiers are attempting to escape frontline deployment, supported by an underground network of fellow Russians.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Associated Press investigative reporter Erika Kinetz follows the dramatic journey of one Russian military officer who deserted the army and fled Russia, guided by an anti-war group that has helped thousands of people evade military service or desert. The name of the group, Idite Lesom, is a play on words in Russian – a reference to the covert nature of its work but also a popular idiom that means \"Get lost.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>With help from the group, the officer made the perilous journey to Kazakhstan, but only after he had a friend and fellow soldier shoot him in the leg.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>“You can only leave wounded or dead,” he tells Kinetz. “No one wants to leave dead.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>His act of desperation reflects the horrific conditions troops face in Ukraine. But life in exile is not what this officer and other deserters had hoped for. Some have had criminal cases filed against them in Russia, where they face 10 years or more in prison. And many are also waiting for a welcome from European countries or the United States that has never arrived. Instead, they live in hiding, fearing deportation back to Russia and persecution of themselves and their families.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For Western nations grappling with Russia’s vast and growing diaspora, Russian military defectors present particular concern: Are they spies? War criminals? Or heroes?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Reveal host Al Letson talks with Kinetz and fellow reporter Solomiia Hera about why these military defectors are not finding sanctuary in Western Europe or the U.S. and how demographics and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to accept enormous casualties in Ukraine could give Russia an edge in an emerging war of attrition.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, we follow a Ukrainian man who knows all too well what a war of attrition really looks like. Oleksii Yukov is a martial arts instructor and leader of a team of volunteers who collect the remains of fallen soldiers, both Ukrainian and Russian. Yukov is on a spiritual quest to give these souls a final resting place.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>“We are not fighting the dead,” Yukov says. “Our weapon is humanity and a shovel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The first time Trina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was 12 years old. She was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. But instead, Trina would end up spending years cycling in and out of North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage, Alaska. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>At times, she was ready to be discharged, but Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services couldn’t find anywhere else to put her – so Trina would stay locked in at North Star, where she would experience violent restraints and periods of seclusion. Then, shortly before her 15th birthday, Trina was sent to another facility 3,000 miles away: Copper Hills Youth Center in Utah. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Both North Star and Copper Hills are owned by Universal Health Services, a publicly traded Fortune 500 company that is the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. Trina’s experience is emblematic of a larger problem: a symbiotic relationship between failing child welfare agencies, which don’t have enough foster homes for all the kids in custody, and large for-profit companies like Universal Health Services, which have beds to fill. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This hour, Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie exposes how Universal Health Services is profiting off foster kids who get admitted to its facilities, despite government and media investigations raising alarming allegations about patient care that the company denies. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/cashing-in-on-troubled-teens/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>When Valentino Rodriguez started his job at the high-security prison in Sacramento, California, informally known as New Folsom, he thought he was entering into a brotherhood of correctional officers. What he found was the opposite.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nFive years later, Rodriguez’s sudden death would raise questions from the FBI and his family. KQED reporters Sukey Lewis and Julie Small trace his story in their series On Our Watch.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This episode opens with Lewis and her reporting team meeting Rodriguez's parents and his widow, Mimy. They talk through the early days of Rodriguez's career and early milestones, like when he got an opportunity to join an elite unit investigating crimes in the prison. But it’s there where his fellow officers in the unit began to undermine and harass him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Eventually, consumed with stress and fed up with how he was being treated, Rodriguez reached a breaking point at work. But even after he left the prison, his experiences there still haunted him. So he went in for a meeting with the warden of New Folsom. He didn’t know it would be his last.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>After his son’s death, Valentino Rodriguez Sr. began to look for answers and found his son’s story was part of something larger.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, Reveal host Al Letson sits down with Lewis and Small to discuss what this correctional officer’s story shows about how the second-largest prison system in the country is failing to protect the people who live and work inside of it.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Listen to the whole On Our Watch series here: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/onourwatch\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/onourwatch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We begin the hour with reporter \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan A. Davis\u003c/a> visiting Psychedelic Science 2023, the largest-ever conference on psychedelic drugs. It’s put on by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization dedicated to legalizing MDMA (also known as ecstasy or molly) and other psychedelic drugs. Research shows that MDMA-assisted therapy can help treat depression and PTSD, and it’s moving toward approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Psychedelics were studied in the 1950s and ’60s as mental health treatments, but the war on drugs put a stop to research. Now, these drugs are gaining bipartisan support from politicians looking for solutions to the mental health crisis among veterans. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then Reveal’s Michael I Schiller visits a group of veterans who are not waiting for psychedelic-assisted therapy to be approved by the federal government. They’ve joined a church founded by an Iraq War veteran who uses psychedelics as religious sacraments. Schiller accompanies them on a retreat in rural Texas, where they share the depths of their post-traumatic stress and the relief they’ve felt after psychedelic treatments. He also explores the risks involved in taking these drugs. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with an intimate audio diary from a woman in Oakland, California, who’s going through therapy with the one psychedelic drug that can be legally prescribed currently in the U.S.: ketamine. Ketamine started out as an anesthetic, but researchers found it can help with treatment-resistant depression when used in tandem with talk therapy. Ketamine can be dangerous if abused, but it also has helped people find relief from mental health issues. This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Davis\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/america-goes-psychedelic-again/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>Check out independent producer Jonathan A. Davis’s work \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges.\nWe begin the hour with reporter Jonathan A. Davis visiting Psychedelic Science 2023, the largest-ever conference on psychedelic drugs. It’s put on by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization dedicated to legalizing MDMA (also known as ecstasy or molly) and other psychedelic drugs. Research shows that MDMA-assisted therapy can help treat depression and PTSD, and it’s moving toward approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Psychedelics were studied in the 1950s and ’60s as mental health treatments, but the war on drugs put a stop to research. Now, these drugs are gaining bipartisan support from politicians looking for solutions to the mental health crisis among veterans. \nThen Reveal’s Michael I Schiller visits a group of veterans who are not waiting for psychedelic-assisted therapy to be approved by the federal government. They’ve joined a church founded by an Iraq War veteran who uses psychedelics as religious sacraments. Schiller accompanies them on a retreat in rural Texas, where they share the depths of their post-traumatic stress and the relief they’ve felt after psychedelic treatments. He also explores the risks involved in taking these drugs. \nWe close with an intimate audio diary from a woman in Oakland, California, who’s going through therapy with the one psychedelic drug that can be legally prescribed currently in the U.S.: ketamine. Ketamine started out as an anesthetic, but researchers found it can help with treatment-resistant depression when used in tandem with talk therapy. Ketamine can be dangerous if abused, but it also has helped people find relief from mental health issues. This story was produced by Davis. \n\nThis is an update of an episode that originally aired in October 2023.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram\n\n\nCheck out independent producer Jonathan A. Davis’s work here",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We begin the hour with reporter \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan A. Davis\u003c/a> visiting Psychedelic Science 2023, the largest-ever conference on psychedelic drugs. It’s put on by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization dedicated to legalizing MDMA (also known as ecstasy or molly) and other psychedelic drugs. Research shows that MDMA-assisted therapy can help treat depression and PTSD, and it’s moving toward approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Psychedelics were studied in the 1950s and ’60s as mental health treatments, but the war on drugs put a stop to research. Now, these drugs are gaining bipartisan support from politicians looking for solutions to the mental health crisis among veterans. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then Reveal’s Michael I Schiller visits a group of veterans who are not waiting for psychedelic-assisted therapy to be approved by the federal government. They’ve joined a church founded by an Iraq War veteran who uses psychedelics as religious sacraments. Schiller accompanies them on a retreat in rural Texas, where they share the depths of their post-traumatic stress and the relief they’ve felt after psychedelic treatments. He also explores the risks involved in taking these drugs. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with an intimate audio diary from a woman in Oakland, California, who’s going through therapy with the one psychedelic drug that can be legally prescribed currently in the U.S.: ketamine. Ketamine started out as an anesthetic, but researchers found it can help with treatment-resistant depression when used in tandem with talk therapy. Ketamine can be dangerous if abused, but it also has helped people find relief from mental health issues. This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Davis\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/america-goes-psychedelic-again/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>Check out independent producer Jonathan A. Davis’s work \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>As blue states try to shore up access to abortion and reproductive care, some are facing a threat they didn’t see coming: Catholic health care mergers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the first segment, Reveal’s Nina Martin takes us to New Mexico, a blue state that’s been working hard since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade to strengthen its already sweeping protections for many forms of reproductive care. But those guarantees have been threatened by a local merger between Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in rural Otero County, and a Catholic health care system out of Texas, CHRISTUS Health. Like all Catholic hospitals, the newly merged hospital will be subject to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Known as ERDs, they limit or ban a number of reproductive services, including birth control, sterilization, abortion and gender-affirming care. Where will people go if they can’t get the care they need? The next closest hospital is an hour away.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the next segment, Martin travels to Alamogordo, where Gerald Champion is located, to try to find out how things are changing. Then she widens her lens, talking to a leading researcher on Catholic health care to see how ERDs play out in other hospitals around the country. She closes by talking to two Catholic experts about what ERDs require and how to improve transparency for patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, Reveal’s Laura C. Morel follows the story of Kelly Flynn, an abortion provider who has clinics in Florida and North Carolina, two states that had been abortion havens for women around the South before Roe fell. But now, lawmakers in North Carolina have imposed a 12-week ban on abortions, and the Florida Supreme Court is weighing a six-week ban. So Flynn has spent the last few months preparing for access to keep shrinking by quietly opening a new clinic in a state that still has relatively strong abortion protections – Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "As blue states try to shore up access to abortion and reproductive care, some are facing a threat they didn’t see coming: Catholic health care mergers.\nIn the first segment, Reveal’s Nina Martin takes us to New Mexico, a blue state that’s been working hard since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade to strengthen its already sweeping protections for many forms of reproductive care. But those guarantees have been threatened by a local merger between Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in rural Otero County, and a Catholic health care system out of Texas, CHRISTUS Health. Like all Catholic hospitals, the newly merged hospital will be subject to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Known as ERDs, they limit or ban a number of reproductive services, including birth control, sterilization, abortion and gender-affirming care. Where will people go if they can’t get the care they need? The next closest hospital is an hour away.\nIn the next segment, Martin travels to Alamogordo, where Gerald Champion is located, to try to find out how things are changing. Then she widens her lens, talking to a leading researcher on Catholic health care to see how ERDs play out in other hospitals around the country. She closes by talking to two Catholic experts about what ERDs require and how to improve transparency for patients.\nIn the final segment, Reveal’s Laura C. Morel follows the story of Kelly Flynn, an abortion provider who has clinics in Florida and North Carolina, two states that had been abortion havens for women around the South before Roe fell. But now, lawmakers in North Carolina have imposed a 12-week ban on abortions, and the Florida Supreme Court is weighing a six-week ban. So Flynn has spent the last few months preparing for access to keep shrinking by quietly opening a new clinic in a state that still has relatively strong abortion protections – Virginia.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>As blue states try to shore up access to abortion and reproductive care, some are facing a threat they didn’t see coming: Catholic health care mergers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the first segment, Reveal’s Nina Martin takes us to New Mexico, a blue state that’s been working hard since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade to strengthen its already sweeping protections for many forms of reproductive care. But those guarantees have been threatened by a local merger between Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in rural Otero County, and a Catholic health care system out of Texas, CHRISTUS Health. Like all Catholic hospitals, the newly merged hospital will be subject to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Known as ERDs, they limit or ban a number of reproductive services, including birth control, sterilization, abortion and gender-affirming care. Where will people go if they can’t get the care they need? The next closest hospital is an hour away.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the next segment, Martin travels to Alamogordo, where Gerald Champion is located, to try to find out how things are changing. Then she widens her lens, talking to a leading researcher on Catholic health care to see how ERDs play out in other hospitals around the country. She closes by talking to two Catholic experts about what ERDs require and how to improve transparency for patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, Reveal’s Laura C. Morel follows the story of Kelly Flynn, an abortion provider who has clinics in Florida and North Carolina, two states that had been abortion havens for women around the South before Roe fell. But now, lawmakers in North Carolina have imposed a 12-week ban on abortions, and the Florida Supreme Court is weighing a six-week ban. So Flynn has spent the last few months preparing for access to keep shrinking by quietly opening a new clinic in a state that still has relatively strong abortion protections – Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Nordo was a star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people. But that day in the homicide unit, Wagner says Nordo asked him some unnerving questions: Would he ever consider doing porn? Guy-on-guy porn? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wagner would go on to be convicted of the murder in a case largely built by Nordo – and Wagner’s experience has led him to believe Nordo fabricated evidence and coerced false statements to frame him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed have dug into Nordo’s career, looking into allegations of his misconduct. In this episode, they follow the rumors to defense attorney Andrew Pappas, who subpoenas the prison call log between Nordo and one of his informants. It’s there where Pappas finds evidence that something is not right about the way Nordo is conducting his police work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pappas’ findings prompt the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to launch an investigation into Nordo. The patterns that prosecutors found by reviewing Nordo’s calls and emails with incarcerated men, examining his personnel file, and interviewing men who interacted with him showed shocking coercion and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years after the first complaint was filed against Nordo, the disgraced detective’s actions became public. He was charged and his case went to trial. Palmer and Melamed analyze the fallout from the scandal and seek answers from the Police Department on how it addressed Nordo’s misconduct and how he got away with it for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-suspect-detective/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. \nNordo was a star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people. But that day in the homicide unit, Wagner says Nordo asked him some unnerving questions: Would he ever consider doing porn? Guy-on-guy porn? \nWagner would go on to be convicted of the murder in a case largely built by Nordo – and Wagner’s experience has led him to believe Nordo fabricated evidence and coerced false statements to frame him.\nFor years, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed have dug into Nordo’s career, looking into allegations of his misconduct. In this episode, they follow the rumors to defense attorney Andrew Pappas, who subpoenas the prison call log between Nordo and one of his informants. It’s there where Pappas finds evidence that something is not right about the way Nordo is conducting his police work. \nPappas’ findings prompt the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to launch an investigation into Nordo. The patterns that prosecutors found by reviewing Nordo’s calls and emails with incarcerated men, examining his personnel file, and interviewing men who interacted with him showed shocking coercion and abuse.\nAlmost 20 years after the first complaint was filed against Nordo, the disgraced detective’s actions became public. He was charged and his case went to trial. Palmer and Melamed analyze the fallout from the scandal and seek answers from the Police Department on how it addressed Nordo’s misconduct and how he got away with it for so long. \nThis is an update of an episode that originally aired in December 2022.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Nordo was a star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people. But that day in the homicide unit, Wagner says Nordo asked him some unnerving questions: Would he ever consider doing porn? Guy-on-guy porn? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wagner would go on to be convicted of the murder in a case largely built by Nordo – and Wagner’s experience has led him to believe Nordo fabricated evidence and coerced false statements to frame him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed have dug into Nordo’s career, looking into allegations of his misconduct. In this episode, they follow the rumors to defense attorney Andrew Pappas, who subpoenas the prison call log between Nordo and one of his informants. It’s there where Pappas finds evidence that something is not right about the way Nordo is conducting his police work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pappas’ findings prompt the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to launch an investigation into Nordo. The patterns that prosecutors found by reviewing Nordo’s calls and emails with incarcerated men, examining his personnel file, and interviewing men who interacted with him showed shocking coercion and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years after the first complaint was filed against Nordo, the disgraced detective’s actions became public. He was charged and his case went to trial. Palmer and Melamed analyze the fallout from the scandal and seek answers from the Police Department on how it addressed Nordo’s misconduct and how he got away with it for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-suspect-detective/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with the Associated Press, reporters on the front lines take us inside Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and share never-before-heard recordings of Russian soldiers. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The day President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, Feb. 24, 2022, Russia unleashed a brutal assault on the strategic port city of Mariupol. That same day, a team of AP reporters arrived in the city. Vasilisa Stepanenko, Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov kept their cameras and tape recorders rolling throughout the onslaught. Together, they captured some of the defining images of the war in Ukraine. Stepanenko and Maloletka talk with guest host Michael Montgomery about risking their lives to document blasted buildings, enormous bomb craters and the daily life of traumatized civilians. As Russian troops advanced on Mariupol, the journalists managed to escape with hours of their own material and recordings from the body camera of a noted Ukrainian medic, Yuliia Paievska. The powerful footage went viral and showed the world the brutalities of the war, as well as remarkable acts of courage by journalists, doctors and ordinary citizens. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, we listen to audio that’s never been publicly shared before: phone calls Russian soldiers made during the first weeks of the invasion, secretly recorded by the Ukrainian government. AP reporter Erika Kinetz obtained more than 2,000 of these calls. Using social media and other tools, she explores the lives of two soldiers whose calls home capture intimate moments with friends and family. The intercepted calls reveal the fear-mongering and patriotism that led some of the men to go from living regular lives as husbands, sons and fathers to talking about killing civilians. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Russian soldiers left streets strewn with the bodies of civilians killed during their brief occupation. Kinetz shares her experiences visiting Bucha and speaking with survivors soon after Russian troops retreated. In the secret intercepts, Russian soldiers speak of “cleansing operations.” One soldier tells his mother: “We don’t imprison them. We kill them all.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Will Russian soldiers and political leaders be prosecuted for war crimes? Montgomery talks with Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer who received a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. She runs the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which has been gathering evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes in Ukraine since Russia’s first invasion in 2014. Matviichuk says it’s important for war crimes to be handled by Ukrainian courts, but the country’s legal system is overwhelmed and notoriously corrupt. She says there is an important role for the international community in creating a system that can bring justice for all Ukrainians. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>HIV/AIDS changed the United States and the world. It has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet#:%7E:text=29.8%20million%20people%20were%20accessing,the%20start%20of%20the%20epidemic.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">some 40 million people\u003c/a> and continues to kill today. This week, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner from the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows take us back to the early years of the HIV epidemic in New York City and show how the virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wright begins by looking at the initial media coverage of HIV, as well as the first health bulletins circulated by the medical community. Both focused on the spread of the virus within the gay men’s community, creating a feedback loop that resulted in other vulnerable groups being overlooked – including women, communities of color and children.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then Ratner tells the story of Katrina Haslip, a prisoner at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York in the 1980s. Haslip and other incarcerated women started a support group to educate each other about HIV and AIDS. The group was called ACE – for AIDS Counseling and Education – and it advocated for women, minorities and prisoners who were being overlooked in the nation's response to the epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, we learn how Haslip took her activism beyond prison walls after her release in 1990. She joined protests in Washington and met with leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. One of the main goals was to change the definition of AIDS, which at the time excluded many symptoms that appeared in HIV-positive women. This meant that women with AIDS often did not qualify for government benefits such as Medicaid and disability insurance. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://link.chtbl.com/blindspotpodcast?sid=reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows\u003c/a> is a co-production of The History Channel and WNYC Studios.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "HIV/AIDS changed the United States and the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to kill today. This week, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner from the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows take us back to the early years of the HIV epidemic in New York City and show how the virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. \nWright begins by looking at the initial media coverage of HIV, as well as the first health bulletins circulated by the medical community. Both focused on the spread of the virus within the gay men’s community, creating a feedback loop that resulted in other vulnerable groups being overlooked – including women, communities of color and children.\nThen Ratner tells the story of Katrina Haslip, a prisoner at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York in the 1980s. Haslip and other incarcerated women started a support group to educate each other about HIV and AIDS. The group was called ACE – for AIDS Counseling and Education – and it advocated for women, minorities and prisoners who were being overlooked in the nation's response to the epidemic.\nIn the final segment, we learn how Haslip took her activism beyond prison walls after her release in 1990. She joined protests in Washington and met with leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. One of the main goals was to change the definition of AIDS, which at the time excluded many symptoms that appeared in HIV-positive women. This meant that women with AIDS often did not qualify for government benefits such as Medicaid and disability insurance. \nThe podcast series Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows is a co-production of The History Channel and WNYC Studios.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>HIV/AIDS changed the United States and the world. It has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet#:%7E:text=29.8%20million%20people%20were%20accessing,the%20start%20of%20the%20epidemic.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">some 40 million people\u003c/a> and continues to kill today. This week, reporters Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner from the podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows take us back to the early years of the HIV epidemic in New York City and show how the virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wright begins by looking at the initial media coverage of HIV, as well as the first health bulletins circulated by the medical community. Both focused on the spread of the virus within the gay men’s community, creating a feedback loop that resulted in other vulnerable groups being overlooked – including women, communities of color and children.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then Ratner tells the story of Katrina Haslip, a prisoner at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York in the 1980s. Haslip and other incarcerated women started a support group to educate each other about HIV and AIDS. The group was called ACE – for AIDS Counseling and Education – and it advocated for women, minorities and prisoners who were being overlooked in the nation's response to the epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, we learn how Haslip took her activism beyond prison walls after her release in 1990. She joined protests in Washington and met with leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. One of the main goals was to change the definition of AIDS, which at the time excluded many symptoms that appeared in HIV-positive women. This meant that women with AIDS often did not qualify for government benefits such as Medicaid and disability insurance. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://link.chtbl.com/blindspotpodcast?sid=reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows\u003c/a> is a co-production of The History Channel and WNYC Studios.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The summer of 2020 was a hinge point in American history. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police inspired racial justice demonstrations nationwide. At the time, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists could cross the line into domestic terrorism – a theory federal agents had first termed “Black identity extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>That summer, Mickey Windecker approached the FBI. He drove a silver hearse, claimed to have been a volunteer fighter for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga in Iraq, and had arrest records in four states that included convictions for misdemeanor sexual assault and menacing with a weapon, a felony. He claimed to the FBI that he had heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of training and violent revolution in Denver. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The FBI enlisted Windecker as a paid informant, gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate Denver's growing Black Lives Matter movement. For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Windecker's undercover work is the first documented case of FBI efforts to infiltrate the 2020 racial justice movement. Journalist Trevor Aaronson obtained over a dozen hours of Windecker's secret recordings and more than 300 pages of internal FBI reports for season 1 of the podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://alphabetboys.xyz/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet Boys\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This episode of Reveal is a partnership with Alphabet Boys and production company \u003ca href=\"https://western-sound.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Western Sound\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/alphabet-boys-revealed/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "The summer of 2020 was a hinge point in American history. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police inspired racial justice demonstrations nationwide. At the time, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists could cross the line into domestic terrorism – a theory federal agents had first termed “Black identity extremism.”\nThat summer, Mickey Windecker approached the FBI. He drove a silver hearse, claimed to have been a volunteer fighter for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga in Iraq, and had arrest records in four states that included convictions for misdemeanor sexual assault and menacing with a weapon, a felony. He claimed to the FBI that he had heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of training and violent revolution in Denver. \nThe FBI enlisted Windecker as a paid informant, gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate Denver's growing Black Lives Matter movement. For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state's attorney general.\nWindecker's undercover work is the first documented case of FBI efforts to infiltrate the 2020 racial justice movement. Journalist Trevor Aaronson obtained over a dozen hours of Windecker's secret recordings and more than 300 pages of internal FBI reports for season 1 of the podcast series Alphabet Boys. \nThis episode of Reveal is a partnership with Alphabet Boys and production company Western Sound. \n\nThis is an update of an episode that originally aired in September 2023.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>The summer of 2020 was a hinge point in American history. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police inspired racial justice demonstrations nationwide. At the time, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists could cross the line into domestic terrorism – a theory federal agents had first termed “Black identity extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>That summer, Mickey Windecker approached the FBI. He drove a silver hearse, claimed to have been a volunteer fighter for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga in Iraq, and had arrest records in four states that included convictions for misdemeanor sexual assault and menacing with a weapon, a felony. He claimed to the FBI that he had heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of training and violent revolution in Denver. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The FBI enlisted Windecker as a paid informant, gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate Denver's growing Black Lives Matter movement. For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Windecker's undercover work is the first documented case of FBI efforts to infiltrate the 2020 racial justice movement. Journalist Trevor Aaronson obtained over a dozen hours of Windecker's secret recordings and more than 300 pages of internal FBI reports for season 1 of the podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://alphabetboys.xyz/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet Boys\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This episode of Reveal is a partnership with Alphabet Boys and production company \u003ca href=\"https://western-sound.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Western Sound\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/alphabet-boys-revealed/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Lauren Chooljian from New Hampshire Public Radio reports on a widespread culture of sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry. Across the country, women seeking treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We begin with Chooljian explaining to host Al Letson the case that got her started on this investigation. It involved Eric Spofford, owner of New Hampshire’s largest addiction treatment network. After exposing allegations that Spofford was harassing patients, Chooljian, her sources and staff at New Hampshire Public Radio became the targets of intimidation and, in some cases, vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Chooljian then chronicles another case, this one in California, that illustrates how difficult it is to bring to justice wealthy, powerful people in the industry. Chris Bathum owned a network of treatment centers in California and Colorado and was routinely sexually assaulting clients and offering them drugs. He was also submitting false billing claims to insurance companies. We meet two women, Rose Stahl and Debbie Herzog, who were separately investigating Bathum. Stahl started as a client at one of Bathum’s centers and later worked for him. She pursued evidence that he was assaulting women at the center, while Herzog was looking into insurance fraud. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Stahl blew the whistle about Bathum’s inappropriate behavior to leadership within the company, but the actions they took did not stop him. At the same time, Herzog was facing hurdles in convincing law enforcement to pay attention to the case she was building about insurance fraud. Then serendipitously, Herzog and Stahl learn of each other’s efforts and team up to try to bring Bathum to justice. \u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "Lauren Chooljian from New Hampshire Public Radio reports on a widespread culture of sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry. Across the country, women seeking treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step.\nWe begin with Chooljian explaining to host Al Letson the case that got her started on this investigation. It involved Eric Spofford, owner of New Hampshire’s largest addiction treatment network. After exposing allegations that Spofford was harassing patients, Chooljian, her sources and staff at New Hampshire Public Radio became the targets of intimidation and, in some cases, vandalism.\nChooljian then chronicles another case, this one in California, that illustrates how difficult it is to bring to justice wealthy, powerful people in the industry. Chris Bathum owned a network of treatment centers in California and Colorado and was routinely sexually assaulting clients and offering them drugs. He was also submitting false billing claims to insurance companies. We meet two women, Rose Stahl and Debbie Herzog, who were separately investigating Bathum. Stahl started as a client at one of Bathum’s centers and later worked for him. She pursued evidence that he was assaulting women at the center, while Herzog was looking into insurance fraud. \nStahl blew the whistle about Bathum’s inappropriate behavior to leadership within the company, but the actions they took did not stop him. At the same time, Herzog was facing hurdles in convincing law enforcement to pay attention to the case she was building about insurance fraud. Then serendipitously, Herzog and Stahl learn of each other’s efforts and team up to try to bring Bathum to justice.",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it that way. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Jonathan Jones travels to the town of Colstrip in the southeastern part of the state. It is home to one of the largest coal seams in the country – and one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West. He learns that Montana’s largest power company, NorthWestern Energy, has expanded its stake in the plant, even though it’s the single biggest emitter of greenhouse gas in the state. Jones speaks with Colstrip’s mayor about the importance of coal mining to the local community. He also speaks to local ranchers and a tribal official who’ve been working for generations to protect the water and land from coal development. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Jones follows the money to the state’s capital, where lawmakers have passed some of the most extreme laws to keep the state from addressing climate change. He dives into lobbying records behind a flurry of bills that are keeping the state reliant on fossil fuels. He meets with one of the plaintiffs involved in a first-of-its-kind youth-led lawsuit. The group successfully sued Montana for violating their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment.” Jones also finds that NorthWestern is planning to build a new methane gas plant on the banks of the Yellowstone River, and the company is being met with resistance from people who live near the site. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, Jones visits the state’s largest wind farm and speaks with a renewable energy expert, who says Montana can close its coal plants, never build a new gas plant and transition to 100% clean energy while reducing electricity costs for consumers. Jones also speaks with NorthWestern’s CEO and looks at other coal communities in transition. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-battle-for-clean-energy-in-coal-country/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it that way. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Jonathan Jones travels to the town of Colstrip in the southeastern part of the state. It is home to one of the largest coal seams in the country – and one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West. He learns that Montana’s largest power company, NorthWestern Energy, has expanded its stake in the plant, even though it’s the single biggest emitter of greenhouse gas in the state. Jones speaks with Colstrip’s mayor about the importance of coal mining to the local community. He also speaks to local ranchers and a tribal official who’ve been working for generations to protect the water and land from coal development. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Jones follows the money to the state’s capital, where lawmakers have passed some of the most extreme laws to keep the state from addressing climate change. He dives into lobbying records behind a flurry of bills that are keeping the state reliant on fossil fuels. He meets with one of the plaintiffs involved in a first-of-its-kind youth-led lawsuit. The group successfully sued Montana for violating their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment.” Jones also finds that NorthWestern is planning to build a new methane gas plant on the banks of the Yellowstone River, and the company is being met with resistance from people who live near the site. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, Jones visits the state’s largest wind farm and speaks with a renewable energy expert, who says Montana can close its coal plants, never build a new gas plant and transition to 100% clean energy while reducing electricity costs for consumers. Jones also speaks with NorthWestern’s CEO and looks at other coal communities in transition. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-battle-for-clean-energy-in-coal-country/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Last summer, Reveal host Al Letson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida, to find a changed state. The Republican Legislature had passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups. Educators could now face criminal penalties over the material they teach regarding gender and sexuality, and schools across the state were banning books about queer families, transgender youth and Black history. There were also repeated instances of racist and anti-Semitic speech, including Nazis waving swastikas in front of Disney World. All of this contributed to the NAACP issuing a rare travel advisory stating that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.” Then on Aug. 26, a White supremacist killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a vigil for the victims, he was met with boos and mourners shouting, “Your policies caused this.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Letson digs into the policies DeSantis and the Legislature have passed in recent years and their effects on Black Floridians and other people of color. He speaks with a history teacher who says the new laws have made it harder to educate students, as well as a mother who describes books being removed from her daughter’s classroom and rules barring students from sharing books with friends at school. Letson also interviews state Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican who championed many of the new policies, including the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts how racism and history are taught in schools. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, Letson examines redistricting in the state. In 2022, DeSantis vetoed maps drawn by the Republican Legislature, and the governor’s office instead drew new maps that got rid of two Black-dominated districts and increased the number of Republican-leaning districts. Those maps, which were subsequently passed by lawmakers, are now being battled over in both state and federal court. To understand the debate, Letson speaks with reporter Andrew Pantazi of the Jacksonville news organization The Tributary, as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Fine defends the new maps, saying they’re designed to challenge Florida’s Constitution, which he argues requires “racial gerrymandering.” Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon says the new maps violate Florida’s constitutional protections of racial minorities and their ability to “elect representatives of their choice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "Last summer, Reveal host Al Letson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida, to find a changed state. The Republican Legislature had passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups. Educators could now face criminal penalties over the material they teach regarding gender and sexuality, and schools across the state were banning books about queer families, transgender youth and Black history. There were also repeated instances of racist and anti-Semitic speech, including Nazis waving swastikas in front of Disney World. All of this contributed to the NAACP issuing a rare travel advisory stating that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.” Then on Aug. 26, a White supremacist killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville. \nWhen Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a vigil for the victims, he was met with boos and mourners shouting, “Your policies caused this.” \nIn this episode, Letson digs into the policies DeSantis and the Legislature have passed in recent years and their effects on Black Floridians and other people of color. He speaks with a history teacher who says the new laws have made it harder to educate students, as well as a mother who describes books being removed from her daughter’s classroom and rules barring students from sharing books with friends at school. Letson also interviews state Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican who championed many of the new policies, including the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts how racism and history are taught in schools. \nIn the final segment, Letson examines redistricting in the state. In 2022, DeSantis vetoed maps drawn by the Republican Legislature, and the governor’s office instead drew new maps that got rid of two Black-dominated districts and increased the number of Republican-leaning districts. Those maps, which were subsequently passed by lawmakers, are now being battled over in both state and federal court. To understand the debate, Letson speaks with reporter Andrew Pantazi of the Jacksonville news organization The Tributary, as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Fine defends the new maps, saying they’re designed to challenge Florida’s Constitution, which he argues requires “racial gerrymandering.” Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon says the new maps violate Florida’s constitutional protections of racial minorities and their ability to “elect representatives of their choice.”\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Last summer, Reveal host Al Letson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida, to find a changed state. The Republican Legislature had passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups. Educators could now face criminal penalties over the material they teach regarding gender and sexuality, and schools across the state were banning books about queer families, transgender youth and Black history. There were also repeated instances of racist and anti-Semitic speech, including Nazis waving swastikas in front of Disney World. All of this contributed to the NAACP issuing a rare travel advisory stating that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.” Then on Aug. 26, a White supremacist killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a vigil for the victims, he was met with boos and mourners shouting, “Your policies caused this.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Letson digs into the policies DeSantis and the Legislature have passed in recent years and their effects on Black Floridians and other people of color. He speaks with a history teacher who says the new laws have made it harder to educate students, as well as a mother who describes books being removed from her daughter’s classroom and rules barring students from sharing books with friends at school. Letson also interviews state Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican who championed many of the new policies, including the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts how racism and history are taught in schools. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the final segment, Letson examines redistricting in the state. In 2022, DeSantis vetoed maps drawn by the Republican Legislature, and the governor’s office instead drew new maps that got rid of two Black-dominated districts and increased the number of Republican-leaning districts. Those maps, which were subsequently passed by lawmakers, are now being battled over in both state and federal court. To understand the debate, Letson speaks with reporter Andrew Pantazi of the Jacksonville news organization The Tributary, as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Fine defends the new maps, saying they’re designed to challenge Florida’s Constitution, which he argues requires “racial gerrymandering.” Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon says the new maps violate Florida’s constitutional protections of racial minorities and their ability to “elect representatives of their choice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "The Double Life of a Civil Rights Icon",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Some of the most enduring photos of the civil rights movement were taken by Ernest Withers. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Withers earned the trust of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders. But as it turns out, he was secretly taking photos for the federal government as well. This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery brings us the story of Withers in an adaptation of the podcast “Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret,” from Scripps News and Stitcher.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Lowery starts by explaining how Withers earned his reputation as a chronicler of the civil rights movement. We tour a museum of Withers’ photographs with his daughter Roz, who deconstructs his famous “I Am a Man” photo of striking sanitation workers. Civil rights leader Andrew Young explains that without Withers’ photographs, they wouldn’t have had a movement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We then learn that after Withers’ death, a Memphis reporter named Marc Perrusquia followed up on an old lead about the photographer: that he was secretly working for the FBI. Perrusquia gained access to thousands of reports and photos taken for the FBI by Withers. We hear excerpts from several reports and meet the daughter of the agent who recruited Withers. During the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the bureau recruited thousands of informants as part of a covert program originally created to monitor communists in America but ended up targeting the civil rights movement, as well as other individuals and groups.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with reflections on Withers by people who knew him. While some believe Withers betrayed the cause of civil rights, others are more forgiving. They say his actions were part of a larger narrative about the U.S. government’s unchecked power to spy on its own citizens and extinguish ideas and movements it felt were a threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>For the U.S. to meet its clean energy goals by 2050, the Department of Energy projects that the country needs more than 10 million acres of solar development. Most of that is expected to be built in rural areas. Surveys show that the vast majority of Americans support renewable energy development, but projects planned in rural areas are meeting major resistance.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Jonathan Jones travels to Copake, New York, in the Hudson River Valley. It’s the site of one of the most contentious fights over a proposed large-scale solar project in the United States. Jones looks at what’s driving support and opposition to the project, Shepherd’s Run.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>He starts with Bill and Nancy Rasweiler, the owners of land where the project is slated. For years, the Rasweilers have leased their land to local farmers to help offset the costs of maintaining it, but it’s not enough. So they signed a lease with Chicago-based solar developer Hecate Energy. When they brought their plan to the rest of the town in 2017, they met resistance from other residents. During the same meeting, Copake’s town board passed a new law to severely restrict the size of solar development. Jones finds that these kinds of local restrictions are being passed in rural communities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Jones learns about the community concerns over the project: that it’s too big, takes over prime farmland and negatively affects the environment and nearby homeowners. Residents who support the project say some concerns are a product of misinformation and Shepherd’s Run is one of the many solar projects that has to happen to slow climate change. With the future of the project in question, Jones hears about a working group – a coalition of supporters and opponents of the project that came together to try to influence its design. Jones follows the group’s efforts and how they landed with Hecate.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, Jones looks at ways agricultural communities are trying to make solar work on their land. This takes him to the Corn Belt, where he looks at how the U.S. is already using millions of acres of farmland to produce a less efficient clean energy source: ethanol. Jones also looks at a landmark agreement between the solar industry and environmental groups convened by Stanford University, which calls for advancing large-scale solar development while championing land conservation and local community interests.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities. \nOur second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. \u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nSo how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment. \nFor years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. \nReveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs.\nNext, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.\nFinally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. \u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nSo how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Gaza: A War of Weapons and Words",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with The Associated Press, secret audio recordings expose a legal playbook used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that keeps evidence of sex abuse out of reach of authorities.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>AP reporters Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen investigate the case of a former Mormon bishop, John Goodrich, who was accused of sexually abusing his daughter Chelsea. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The story opens in Hailey, Idaho, with Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop, which in the Mormon church is akin to a Catholic priest, to testify at John Goodrich’s trial? Bishop Michael Miller, who accompanied Rytting to the meeting, had heard John Goodrich’s confession before he was arrested on charges of lewd behavior with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Audio recordings of the meeting and others show how Rytting, despite expressing concern for what he called John Goodrich’s “significant sexual transgression,” would discourage Miller from testifying, citing an Idaho law that exempts clergy from having to divulge information about child sex abuse that is gleaned in a confession.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the episode’s final segment, Rezendes and Dearen sit down with guest host Michael Montgomery to discuss why states across the country exempt clergy from mandatory reporting laws that are meant to protect children from abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no evidence pointing to the shooter. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Detectives ultimately zeroed in on a man named Toforest Johnson, who on that same night was with friends at a nightclub miles away. Johnson was tried twice for the murder and eventually convicted on the testimony of an “earwitness” – a woman who claimed to have overheard Johnson confessing to the crime. He was sentenced to death and has spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In 2019, investigative journalist Beth Shelburne began covering the case, finding details that cast major doubts about Johnson’s guilt. This week, in partnership with Lava for Good and the Earwitness podcast, hosted by Shelburne, we tell the story of Johnson’s case. First, Shelburne digs into the night of the murder and speaks to the lead investigator on the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, in conversation with host Al Letson, Shelburne walks through how Johnson was convicted, despite a lack of evidence and a solid alibi. She also shares the latest turn in Johnson’s case: Questions about the credibility of the earwitness have surfaced in the last few years, leading many Alabama politicians and attorneys to call for a new trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Alabama's prison system doesn't allow people on death row to talk to journalists, so Shelburne visits the people closest to Johnson: his kids. They share memories and their hopes for their father’s case. She also has a conversation with an unlikely supporter of a new trial: one of the people who had a hand in sending Johnson to death row. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lavaforgood.com/earlanding\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> to hear the full Earwitness podcast.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no evidence pointing to the shooter. \nDetectives ultimately zeroed in on a man named Toforest Johnson, who on that same night was with friends at a nightclub miles away. Johnson was tried twice for the murder and eventually convicted on the testimony of an “earwitness” – a woman who claimed to have overheard Johnson confessing to the crime. He was sentenced to death and has spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row.\nIn 2019, investigative journalist Beth Shelburne began covering the case, finding details that cast major doubts about Johnson’s guilt. This week, in partnership with Lava for Good and the Earwitness podcast, hosted by Shelburne, we tell the story of Johnson’s case. First, Shelburne digs into the night of the murder and speaks to the lead investigator on the case. \nThen, in conversation with host Al Letson, Shelburne walks through how Johnson was convicted, despite a lack of evidence and a solid alibi. She also shares the latest turn in Johnson’s case: Questions about the credibility of the earwitness have surfaced in the last few years, leading many Alabama politicians and attorneys to call for a new trial. \nAlabama's prison system doesn't allow people on death row to talk to journalists, so Shelburne visits the people closest to Johnson: his kids. They share memories and their hopes for their father’s case. She also has a conversation with an unlikely supporter of a new trial: one of the people who had a hand in sending Johnson to death row. \nClick here to hear the full Earwitness podcast.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no evidence pointing to the shooter. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Detectives ultimately zeroed in on a man named Toforest Johnson, who on that same night was with friends at a nightclub miles away. Johnson was tried twice for the murder and eventually convicted on the testimony of an “earwitness” – a woman who claimed to have overheard Johnson confessing to the crime. He was sentenced to death and has spent more than 25 years on Alabama’s death row.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In 2019, investigative journalist Beth Shelburne began covering the case, finding details that cast major doubts about Johnson’s guilt. This week, in partnership with Lava for Good and the Earwitness podcast, hosted by Shelburne, we tell the story of Johnson’s case. First, Shelburne digs into the night of the murder and speaks to the lead investigator on the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, in conversation with host Al Letson, Shelburne walks through how Johnson was convicted, despite a lack of evidence and a solid alibi. She also shares the latest turn in Johnson’s case: Questions about the credibility of the earwitness have surfaced in the last few years, leading many Alabama politicians and attorneys to call for a new trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Alabama's prison system doesn't allow people on death row to talk to journalists, so Shelburne visits the people closest to Johnson: his kids. They share memories and their hopes for their father’s case. She also has a conversation with an unlikely supporter of a new trial: one of the people who had a hand in sending Johnson to death row. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lavaforgood.com/earlanding\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> to hear the full Earwitness podcast.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially across California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95% of police departments in the state and offers its clients trainings and ready-made policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In one of Praet’s training webinars, posted online, he offers a piece of advice that policing experts have called inhumane. It’s aimed at protecting officers and their departments from lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>After police kill someone, they are supposed to notify the family. Praet advises officers to use that interaction as an opportunity. Instead of delivering the news of the death immediately, he suggests first asking about the person who was killed to get as much information as possible. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reporter Brian Howey started looking into this advice when he was with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He found that officers have been using this tactic across California, and the information families disclosed before they knew their relative was killed affected their lawsuits later. In this hour, Howey interviews families that have been on the receiving end of this controversial policing tactic, explaining their experience and the lasting impact. Howey travels to Santa Ana, where he meets a City Council member leading an effort to end Lexipol’s contract in his city. And in a parking lot near Fresno, Howey tracks down Praet and tries to interview him about the consequences of his advice. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. In June, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kristianiaclark\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Krissy Clark\u003c/a> from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work.\nNow, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. In June, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal.\nIn this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. Krissy Clark from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.\nWe meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?\nThen, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. In June, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kristianiaclark\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Krissy Clark\u003c/a> from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We begin the hour with reporter \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan A. Davis\u003c/a> visiting Psychedelic Science 2023, the largest-ever conference on psychedelic drugs. It’s put on by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization dedicated to legalizing MDMA (also known as ecstasy or molly) and other psychedelic drugs. Research shows that MDMA-assisted therapy can help treat depression and PTSD, and it’s moving toward approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Psychedelics were studied in the 1950s and ’60s as mental health treatments, but the war on drugs put a stop to research. Now, these drugs are gaining bipartisan support from politicians looking for solutions to the mental health crisis among veterans. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then Reveal’s Michael I Schiller visits a group of veterans who are not waiting for psychedelic-assisted therapy to be approved by the federal government. They’ve joined a church founded by an Iraq War veteran who uses psychedelics as religious sacraments. Schiller accompanies them on a retreat in rural Texas, where they share the depths of their post-traumatic stress and the relief they’ve felt after psychedelic treatments. He also explores the risks involved in taking these drugs. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with an intimate audio diary from a woman in Oakland, California, who’s going through therapy with the one psychedelic drug that can be legally prescribed currently in the U.S.: ketamine. Ketamine started out as an anesthetic, but researchers found it can help with treatment-resistant depression when used in tandem with talk therapy. Ketamine can be dangerous if abused, but it also has helped people find relief from mental health issues. This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Davis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Check out independent producer Jonathan A. Davis’s work \u003ca href=\"https://radio.jdavis.online\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The first time Trina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was 12 years old. She was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. But instead, Trina would end up spending years cycling in and out of North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage, Alaska. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>At times, she was ready to be discharged, but Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services couldn’t find anywhere else to put her – so Trina would stay locked in at North Star, where she would experience violent restraints and periods of seclusion. Then, shortly before her 15th birthday, Trina was sent to another facility 3,000 miles away: Copper Hills Youth Center in Utah. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Both North Star and Copper Hills are owned by Universal Health Services, a publicly traded, Fortune 500 company that is the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. Trina’s experience is emblematic of a larger problem: a symbiotic relationship between failing child welfare agencies, which don’t have enough foster homes for all the kids in custody, and large for-profit companies like Universal Health Services, which have beds to fill. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This hour, Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie exposes how Universal Health Services is profiting off foster kids who get admitted to its facilities, despite government and media investigations raising alarming allegations about patient care that the company denies.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This hour deals with child abuse, sexual assault and suicide – and may not be appropriate for all listeners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a local restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more like a frat house than a quaint roadside sandwich spot. And the crude behavior kept escalating – until one day she says her boss went too far and she turned to the local police for help. What happened next would lead to a legal battle that dragged on for years. The U.S. Supreme Court would even get involved.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal reporter Rachel de Leon spent years taking a close look at cases across the country in which people reported sexual assaults to police, only to find themselves investigated. In this hour, we explore one case and hear how police interrogated an alleged perpetrator, an alleged victim and each other. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>De Leon’s investigation is also the subject of a documentary, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81288561\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Victim/Suspect\u003c/a>,” now streaming on Netflix. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. But during the pandemic, Adams had to give him a reading test at home, and she realized her son couldn’t read. He’d been memorizing books that were read to him, but he didn’t know how to read new words he’d never seen before. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>It’s a surprisingly common story. And kids who aren’t on track by the end of first grade are in danger of never becoming good readers. Two-thirds of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. The problem is even worse when you look beyond the average and focus on specific groups of children: 83% of Black fourth graders don’t read proficiently. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">American Public Media\u003c/a> reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say – strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>But research by cognitive scientists has demonstrated that readers need to know how to sound out words. And some teacher training programs still emphasize the debunked theory, including books and classroom materials that are popular around the world. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Hanford looks at the work of several authors who are published by the same educational publishing company. One, Lucy Calkins, is a rock star among teachers. Her books and training programs have been wildly popular. Calkins has now decided to rewrite her curriculum in response to “the science of reading.” But other authors are sticking to the idea that children can use other strategies to figure out the words. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/how-teaching-kids-to-read-went-so-wrong/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">February 2023\u003c/a>. Since then, Teachers College at Columbia University \u003ca href=\"https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2023/september/advancing-literacy-through-teachers-college-programs-research-and-partnerships/?fbclid=IwAR2Z8B_pzlIg6FSNHGyc_Foy7-tLZwpBAq6Xr2NPtMjRW9lSM5kqy69G3EY_aem_AYiGveWUS3SEgFHztnoqe1nFuD1oOWg35lB3TlqI8_I0jDPG0_bGiRgW9m6OgDkOCVo\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> that the teacher training project founded by Calkins would be “dissolved.” The word “dissolved” was later removed from the statement, and the college instead characterized the move as a “transition” to ensure its “programs are informed by the latest research and evidence.” Since Sold a Story was first released, at least 22 states have introduced bills to overhaul reading instruction, and several have banned curricula that include cueing strategies.\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The summer of 2020 was a hinge point in American history. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police inspired racial justice demonstrations nationwide. At the time, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists could cross the line into domestic terrorism – a theory federal agents had first termed “Black identity extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>That summer, Mickey Windecker approached the FBI. He drove a silver hearse, claimed to have been a volunteer fighter for the French Foreign Legion and the Peshmerga in Iraq, and had arrest records in four states that included convictions for misdemeanor sexual assault and menacing with a weapon, a felony. He claimed to the FBI that he had heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of training and violent revolution in Denver. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The FBI enlisted Windecker as a paid informant, gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate Denver's growing Black Lives Matter movement. For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state's attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Windecker's undercover work is the first documented case of FBI efforts to infiltrate the 2020 racial justice movement. Journalist Trevor Aaronson obtained over a dozen hours of Windecker's secret recordings and more than 300 pages of internal FBI reports for season 1 of the podcast series \u003ca href=\"https://alphabetboys.xyz/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet Boys\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThis episode of Reveal is a partnership with Alphabet Boys and production company \u003ca href=\"https://western-sound.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Western Sound\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The final episode of Mississippi Goddam shares new revelations that cast doubt on the official story that Billey Joe Johnson Jr. accidentally killed himself. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Our reporting brought up questions that the original investigation never looked into. Host Al Letson and reporter Jonathan Jones go back to Mississippi to interview the key people in the investigation, including Johnson’s ex-girlfriend – the first recorded interview she’s ever done with a media outlet. The team also shares its findings with lead investigator Joel Wallace and the medical examiner who looked into the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, after three years of reporting, we share what we’ve learned with Johnson’s family and talk to them about the inadequacy of the investigation and reasons to reopen the case. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-7-reasonable-doubt/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Black communities around Mississippi have long raised concerns about suspicious deaths of young Black men, especially when law enforcement is involved. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Curley Clark, vice president of the Mississippi NAACP at the time of Reveal’s reporting, called Billey Joe Johnson Jr.’s case an example of “Mississippi justice.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>“It means that they still feel like the South should have won the Civil War,” Clark said. “And also the laws for the state of Mississippi are slanted in that direction.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Before Johnson died during a traffic stop with a White sheriff’s deputy, friends say police had pulled him over dozens of times. And some members of the community raised concerns that police had been racially profiling Black people. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal investigates Johnson’s interactions with law enforcement and one officer in particular. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-6-mississippi-justice/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">November 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Billey Joe Johnson Jr. and Hannah Hollinghead met in their freshman year of high school. Hollinghead says Johnson was her first love, and in many ways, it was a typical teen romance. Friends say they would argue, break up, then get back together again. Some people were far from accepting of their interracial relationship.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, 2008, they were both dating other people. According to Hollinghead and her mother, Johnson made an unexpected stop at her house, moments before he died of a gunshot wound during a traffic stop on the edge of town. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>But it appears that investigators failed to corroborate statements or interview Johnson’s friends and family to get a better idea of what was going on in his life on the day he died. Reveal exposes deep flaws in the investigation and interviews the people closest to Johnson, who were never questioned during the initial investigation. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-5-star-crossed/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">November 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Special Agent Joel Wallace of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr. He worked alongside two investigators from the George County district attorney’s office. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wallace said that arrangement didn’t happen very often. And he now questions why they were assigned. “If you've got me investigating the case, then I’m an independent investigator,” he said. “But why would I need the district attorney investigator to oversee me investigating a case?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The Johnson family was initially relieved because Wallace had experience investigating suspicious deaths. As a Black detective, he had dealt with racist backlash to his work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal host Al Letson and reporter Jonathan Jones visit Wallace, now retired, to talk about what happened with the investigation. When Wallace finds out what Reveal has uncovered, he begins to wonder whether the case should be reopened.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-4-the-investigator/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">November 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>After Billey Joe Johnson Jr. died in 2008, the state of Mississippi outsourced his autopsy. Al Letson and Jonathan Jones travel to Nashville, Tennessee, to interview the doctor who conducted it. Her findings helped lead a grand jury to determine Johnson’s death was an accidental shooting. However, Letson and Jones share another report that raises doubts about her original conclusions. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-3-the-autopsy/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body. Their shaky faith in the criminal justice system begins to buckle.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>As Johnson’s family tries to get answers about his death, they get increasingly frustrated with the investigation. They feel that law enforcement officials, from the lead investigator to the district attorney, are keeping them out of the loop. While a majority-White grand jury rules that Johnson’s death was accidental, members of the family believe the possibility of foul play was never properly investigated. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-episode-2-the-aftermath/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time. Then, early one morning in 2008, the Black teenager died during a traffic stop with a White deputy. His family’s been searching for answers ever since.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nMore than a decade ago, Reveal host Al Letson traveled to Lucedale, Mississippi, to report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. While there, locals told him there was another story he should be looking into: Johnson’s suspicious death. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>During that traffic stop, police say Johnson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But for Johnson’s family, that explanation never made sense. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the first episode of this \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/mississippi-goddam/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">seven-part series\u003c/a>, Letson returns to Mississippi with reporter Jonathan Jones to explore what happened to Johnson – and what justice means in a place haunted by its history. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This episode was originally broadcast in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goddam-chapter-1-the-promise/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>A Saudi-owned farm in the middle of the Arizona desert has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/growing-hay-a-world-away/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">eight years ago\u003c/a>. The farm is using massive amounts of water to grow hay and export it to Saudi Arabia in the midst of a water crisis in the American West. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Since then, megafarms have taken hold here. And the trend isn’t fueled just by foreign companies. Many people have no idea that their retirement funds are backing massive land deals that result in draining precious groundwater. Halverson uncovers that pension fund managers in Arizona knew they were investing in a local land deal, which resulted in draining down the aquifer of nearby communities. So even as local and state politicians have fought to stop these deals, their retirement fund has been fueling them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>And it’s not just happening in Arizona. Halverson takes us to Southern California, where retirement money also was invested in a megafarm deal. This time, the farm was tapping into the Colorado River to grow hay and ship it overseas. And it was happening as the federal and state governments have been trying to conserve river water.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Halverson’s investigation into water use in the West is just one slice of his reporting into a global scramble for food and water, which is featured in an upcoming documentary, “The Grab” by director Gabriela Cowperthwaite. “The Grab” will be coming soon to a theater or screen near you. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "A Saudi-owned farm in the middle of the Arizona desert has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story eight years ago. The farm is using massive amounts of water to grow hay and export it to Saudi Arabia in the midst of a water crisis in the American West. \nSince then, megafarms have taken hold here. And the trend isn’t fueled just by foreign companies. Many people have no idea that their retirement funds are backing massive land deals that result in draining precious groundwater. Halverson uncovers that pension fund managers in Arizona knew they were investing in a local land deal, which resulted in draining down the aquifer of nearby communities. So even as local and state politicians have fought to stop these deals, their retirement fund has been fueling them.\nAnd it’s not just happening in Arizona. Halverson takes us to Southern California, where retirement money also was invested in a megafarm deal. This time, the farm was tapping into the Colorado River to grow hay and ship it overseas. And it was happening as the federal and state governments have been trying to conserve river water.\nHalverson’s investigation into water use in the West is just one slice of his reporting into a global scramble for food and water, which is featured in an upcoming documentary, “The Grab” by director Gabriela Cowperthwaite. “The Grab” will be coming soon to a theater or screen near you. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. \u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nSo how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. \u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\nSo how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Amid all the sounds and smells of burning garbage, Aminy looks into whether buying RECs actually helps the environment and where the money goes. He meets Andrew Byrd, who lives nearby and worries about the fumes. It turns out that federal agencies bought RECs from this incinerator in order to meet renewable energy mandates.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, we explore another place where the government buys RECs: two biomass plants in Georgia, where residents complained of toxic pollution. Evans looks into where the government’s modest environmental goals come from and why federal agencies buy RECs in the first place. He also talks to a REC industry veteran and examines how a plan from the Biden administration could change things. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Before Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry and Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency could spy on all of us, there was Daniel Ellsberg, one of the original champions of free speech. He died last month at 92, and this week’s episode revisits a historic event along with our CEO and editor in chief, Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In 1971, then-22-year-old Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He was told to go to Room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, bring enough clothes for at least a month and not tell anyone.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Rosenthal was part of a team called in to publish the Pentagon Papers, an explosive history of the United States’ political and military actions in Vietnam that shattered the government’s narratives about the war. Ellsberg, a former military analyst, leaked the secret papers to the press. We hear the experiences of both Ellsberg and Rosenthal. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, he was turning his back on a long career close to power, immersed in government secrets. His work as a nuclear war strategist made him fear that a small conflict could erupt into a nuclear holocaust. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When the Vietnam War flared, Ellsberg worried his worst fears would be realized. He wonders if leaking the top-secret report he’s read could help stop the war. Soon, he was secretly copying the 7,000-page history that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers and showing them to anyone he thought could help.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>President Richard Nixon wakes up to the biggest leak in American history. But his first reaction is a little surprising: The Pentagon Papers might make trouble for the Democrats – this instinct starts a chain reaction that helps bring down his presidency.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/episodes/the-pentagon-papers-secrets-lies-and-leaks/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">May 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "Before Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry and Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency could spy on all of us, there was Daniel Ellsberg, one of the original champions of free speech. He died last month at 92, and this week’s episode revisits a historic event along with our CEO and editor in chief, Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal. \nIn 1971, then-22-year-old Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He was told to go to Room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, bring enough clothes for at least a month and not tell anyone.\nRosenthal was part of a team called in to publish the Pentagon Papers, an explosive history of the United States’ political and military actions in Vietnam that shattered the government’s narratives about the war. Ellsberg, a former military analyst, leaked the secret papers to the press. We hear the experiences of both Ellsberg and Rosenthal. \nWhen Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, he was turning his back on a long career close to power, immersed in government secrets. His work as a nuclear war strategist made him fear that a small conflict could erupt into a nuclear holocaust. \nWhen the Vietnam War flared, Ellsberg worried his worst fears would be realized. He wonders if leaking the top-secret report he’s read could help stop the war. Soon, he was secretly copying the 7,000-page history that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers and showing them to anyone he thought could help.\nPresident Richard Nixon wakes up to the biggest leak in American history. But his first reaction is a little surprising: The Pentagon Papers might make trouble for the Democrats – this instinct starts a chain reaction that helps bring down his presidency.\nThis episode originally aired in May 2016.",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>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. This week, we tell the story of one young mother who thought she was doing the right thing by taking her prescription, only to be reported to the state of Arizona and investigated for child abuse and neglect. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Shoshana Walter starts off by introducing us to Jade Dass, who was taking Suboxone to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that taking addiction treatment medications, such as Suboxone and methadone, during pregnancy leads to the best outcomes for both mothers and babies. But after Dass delivered a healthy daughter, the hospital reported her to the Arizona Department of Child Safety. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Walter explores why women like Dass are being investigated for using addiction-treatment medications during pregnancy. In response to the crack and opioid epidemics, state and federal legislators enacted laws that inadvertently created a dragnet for women like Dass who are following a doctor’s orders to treat addiction. To understand the scope of the dragnet, Walter, data reporter Melissa Lewis and a team of Reveal researchers and lawyers filed 100 public records requests, putting together the first-ever tally of how often women are reported to child welfare agencies for taking prescription drugs during pregnancy. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close the hour by rejoining Dass as she grapples with a judge’s decision to put her baby in foster care. Dass and her boyfriend make a desperate move to try and keep their family together. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For more about Jade Dass and other mothers facing investigation for taking medication assisted treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/a-mothers-worst-nightmare-medication-assisted-treatment\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">read Shoshana Walter’s investigation in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "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. This week, we tell the story of one young mother who thought she was doing the right thing by taking her prescription, only to be reported to the state of Arizona and investigated for child abuse and neglect. \nReveal’s Shoshana Walter starts off by introducing us to Jade Dass, who was taking Suboxone to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that taking addiction treatment medications, such as Suboxone and methadone, during pregnancy leads to the best outcomes for both mothers and babies. But after Dass delivered a healthy daughter, the hospital reported her to the Arizona Department of Child Safety. \nNext, Walter explores why women like Dass are being investigated for using addiction-treatment medications during pregnancy. In response to the crack and opioid epidemics, state and federal legislators enacted laws that inadvertently created a dragnet for women like Dass who are following a doctor’s orders to treat addiction. To understand the scope of the dragnet, Walter, data reporter Melissa Lewis and a team of Reveal researchers and lawyers filed 100 public records requests, putting together the first-ever tally of how often women are reported to child welfare agencies for taking prescription drugs during pregnancy. \nWe close the hour by rejoining Dass as she grapples with a judge’s decision to put her baby in foster care. Dass and her boyfriend make a desperate move to try and keep their family together. \nFor more about Jade Dass and other mothers facing investigation for taking medication assisted treatment, read Shoshana Walter’s investigation in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"excerpt": "From book bans to uproar over critical race theory, American classrooms have been on the front lines of the culture war. And there’s one state that’s leading the charge.\nIn Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has championed several laws affecting education, from prohibitions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity to blocks on funding for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at state colleges. He’s also targeted one the state’s most liberal and academically rigorous institutions: New College of Florida.\nIn January, DeSantis’ chief of staff told National Review, “It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South.” The comment sparked widespread controversy because Hillsdale College is a private Christian school in Michigan, and New College is the state’s public honors college.\nThat same month, DeSantis appointed multiple new trustees to the board, who began seizing control of New College almost immediately. In their first meeting, trustees ousted the college’s president and legal counsel and selected a new board chair, a DeSantis appointee. And they set in motion a plan to terminate the school’s diversity officer.\nSince then, a pitched battle has been playing out, with DeSantis and his appointees on one side and students and faculty on the other. In this episode of Reveal, we partner with freelance reporter and filmmaker Sam Greenspan, who is a graduate of New College, to examine the changes taking place there. Greenspan follows journalists at the Catalyst, the student newspaper, as they cover the rapid-fire changes that are throwing the future of the college into uncertainty. \nTo close the show, host Al Letson interviews Democratic Florida Rep. Angie Nixon about her opposition to many of the governor’s recent policies and the effects she thinks they’ll have on students and educators in the state.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>From book bans to uproar over critical race theory, American classrooms have been on the front lines of the culture war. And there’s one state that’s leading the charge.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has championed several laws affecting education, from prohibitions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity to blocks on funding for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at state colleges. He’s also targeted one the state’s most liberal and academically rigorous institutions: New College of Florida.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In January, DeSantis’ chief of staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/news/desantis-proposes-legislation-to-eliminate-dei-bureaucracies-in-florida-colleges/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told National Review\u003c/a>, “It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South.” The comment sparked widespread controversy because Hillsdale College is a private Christian school in Michigan, and New College is the state’s public honors college.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>That same month, DeSantis appointed multiple new trustees to the board, who began seizing control of New College almost immediately. In their first meeting, trustees ousted the college’s president and legal counsel and selected a new board chair, a DeSantis appointee. And they set in motion a plan to terminate the school’s diversity officer.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Since then, a pitched battle has been playing out, with DeSantis and his appointees on one side and students and faculty on the other. In this episode of Reveal, we partner with freelance reporter and filmmaker Sam Greenspan, who is a graduate of New College, to examine the changes taking place there. Greenspan follows journalists at the Catalyst, the student newspaper, as they cover the rapid-fire changes that are throwing the future of the college into uncertainty. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>To close the show, host Al Letson interviews Democratic Florida Rep. Angie Nixon about her opposition to many of the governor’s recent policies and the effects she thinks they’ll have on students and educators in the state.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. Recently, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kristianiaclark\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Krissy Clark\u003c/a> from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. Recently, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kristianiaclark\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Krissy Clark\u003c/a> from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>It’s been nearly one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that protected abortion rights for half a century. Many states have passed laws severely restricting or banning abortion. And in states like Texas, pregnant patients are being put in peril. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Freelance journalist Sophie Novack reports on the hard decisions Texas doctors and nurses are making in the aftermath of the state’s ban. Providers are facing impossible choices when it comes to caring for pregnant patients with medical complications. Some fear that performing an abortion, even to save the life of a mother, could lead to criminal prosecution. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal reporter Laura C. Morel has spent the last year investigating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Now that abortions are severely restricted or banned in much of the country, these centers are trying to fill some of the health care gap that’s emerged in conservative areas. In states that continue to allow abortions, crisis pregnancy centers have doubled down on their mission to discourage patients from terminating their pregnancies – often using deceptive practices to lure them into their facilities. Morel talks to a Florida woman who describes her experience at a Jacksonville crisis pregnancy center, where a volunteer deceived her into thinking it was an abortion clinic. As Morel and episode host Nadia Hamdan discover, deceiving pregnant women is part of these centers’ long history. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, we explore how a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision has made it harder to regulate anti-abortion centers – and how the lack of regulation harms clients. Morel tells the story of an anti-abortion nurse in Kentucky who reported infection control problems at the crisis pregnancy center where she volunteered, only to find that the facility is allowed to operate in a regulatory gray zone.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "It’s been nearly one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that protected abortion rights for half a century. Many states have passed laws severely restricting or banning abortion. And in states like Texas, pregnant patients are being put in peril. \nFreelance journalist Sophie Novack reports on the hard decisions Texas doctors and nurses are making in the aftermath of the state’s ban. Providers are facing impossible choices when it comes to caring for pregnant patients with medical complications. Some fear that performing an abortion, even to save the life of a mother, could lead to criminal prosecution. \nReveal reporter Laura C. Morel has spent the last year investigating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Now that abortions are severely restricted or banned in much of the country, these centers are trying to fill some of the health care gap that’s emerged in conservative areas. In states that continue to allow abortions, crisis pregnancy centers have doubled down on their mission to discourage patients from terminating their pregnancies – often using deceptive practices to lure them into their facilities. Morel talks to a Florida woman who describes her experience at a Jacksonville crisis pregnancy center, where a volunteer deceived her into thinking it was an abortion clinic. As Morel and episode host Nadia Hamdan discover, deceiving pregnant women is part of these centers’ long history. \nFinally, we explore how a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision has made it harder to regulate anti-abortion centers – and how the lack of regulation harms clients. Morel tells the story of an anti-abortion nurse in Kentucky who reported infection control problems at the crisis pregnancy center where she volunteered, only to find that the facility is allowed to operate in a regulatory gray zone.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it that way. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Jonathan Jones travels to the southeastern part of the state, to a town called Colstrip. It is home to one of the largest coal seams in the country – and one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West. He finds the state’s single largest power company, NorthWestern Energy, recently expanded its share in the Colstrip power plant and is planning to build a new methane gas plant on the banks of the Yellowstone River. Meanwhile, in the state capital of Helena, lawmakers have passed a flurry of bills to ensure the state’s continued reliance on fossil fuels. NorthWestern supports many of these bills, including one of the most extreme laws to keep the state from addressing climate change. Jones follows the money behind the coal expansion in Montana and the local and statewide resistance efforts to push the state toward clean energy. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it that way. \nReveal’s Jonathan Jones travels to the southeastern part of the state, to a town called Colstrip. It is home to one of the largest coal seams in the country – and one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West. He finds the state’s single largest power company, NorthWestern Energy, recently expanded its share in the Colstrip power plant and is planning to build a new methane gas plant on the banks of the Yellowstone River. Meanwhile, in the state capital of Helena, lawmakers have passed a flurry of bills to ensure the state’s continued reliance on fossil fuels. NorthWestern supports many of these bills, including one of the most extreme laws to keep the state from addressing climate change. Jones follows the money behind the coal expansion in Montana and the local and statewide resistance efforts to push the state toward clean energy. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever-greater control over battlefield technology. The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for some of these weapons, and experts warn that we are on the brink of fully autonomous drones that decide for themselves whom to kill. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This week, we revisit a story from reporter Zachary Fryer-Biggs about U.S. efforts to harness gargantuan leaps in artificial intelligence to develop weapons systems for a new kind of warfare. The push to integrate AI into battlefield technology raises a big question: How far should we go in handing control of lethal weapons to machines? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In our first story, Fryer-Biggs and Reveal’s Michael Montgomery head to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Sophomore cadets are exploring the ethics of autonomous weapons through a lab simulation that uses miniature tanks programmed to destroy their targets.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Fryer-Biggs and Montgomery talk to a top general leading the Pentagon’s AI initiative. They also explore the legendary hackers conference known as DEF CON and hear from technologists campaigning for a global ban on autonomous weapons.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with a conversation between host Al Letson and Fryer-Biggs about the implications of algorithmic warfare and how the U.S. and other leaders in machine learning are resistant to signing treaties that would put limits on machines capable of making battlefield decisions. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/weapons-with-minds-of-their-own/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever-greater control over battlefield technology. The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for some of these weapons, and experts warn that we are on the brink of fully autonomous drones that decide for themselves whom to kill. \nThis week, we revisit a story from reporter Zachary Fryer-Biggs about U.S. efforts to harness gargantuan leaps in artificial intelligence to develop weapons systems for a new kind of warfare. The push to integrate AI into battlefield technology raises a big question: How far should we go in handing control of lethal weapons to machines? \nIn our first story, Fryer-Biggs and Reveal’s Michael Montgomery head to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Sophomore cadets are exploring the ethics of autonomous weapons through a lab simulation that uses miniature tanks programmed to destroy their targets.\nNext, Fryer-Biggs and Montgomery talk to a top general leading the Pentagon’s AI initiative. They also explore the legendary hackers conference known as DEF CON and hear from technologists campaigning for a global ban on autonomous weapons.\nWe close with a conversation between host Al Letson and Fryer-Biggs about the implications of algorithmic warfare and how the U.S. and other leaders in machine learning are resistant to signing treaties that would put limits on machines capable of making battlefield decisions. \nThis episode originally aired in June 2021.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever-greater control over battlefield technology. The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for some of these weapons, and experts warn that we are on the brink of fully autonomous drones that decide for themselves whom to kill. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This week, we revisit a story from reporter Zachary Fryer-Biggs about U.S. efforts to harness gargantuan leaps in artificial intelligence to develop weapons systems for a new kind of warfare. The push to integrate AI into battlefield technology raises a big question: How far should we go in handing control of lethal weapons to machines? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In our first story, Fryer-Biggs and Reveal’s Michael Montgomery head to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Sophomore cadets are exploring the ethics of autonomous weapons through a lab simulation that uses miniature tanks programmed to destroy their targets.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Fryer-Biggs and Montgomery talk to a top general leading the Pentagon’s AI initiative. They also explore the legendary hackers conference known as DEF CON and hear from technologists campaigning for a global ban on autonomous weapons.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with a conversation between host Al Letson and Fryer-Biggs about the implications of algorithmic warfare and how the U.S. and other leaders in machine learning are resistant to signing treaties that would put limits on machines capable of making battlefield decisions. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/weapons-with-minds-of-their-own/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually \u003cem>cause\u003c/em> abortions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>One prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control pills to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient. Reveal’s Amy Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Tens of millions of Americans use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and regulate their health. And many have well-founded complaints about side effects, from nausea to depression – not to mention well-justified anger about how the medical establishment often pooh-poohs those concerns. Anti-abortion and religious activists have jumped into the fray, urging people to reject hormonal birth control as “toxic” and promoting non-hormonal “fertility awareness” methods – a movement they’re trying to rebrand as “green sex.” Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explains how secular wellness influencers such as Jolene Brighten, who sells a $300 birth control “hormone reset,” are having their messages adopted by anti-abortion influencers, many of them with deep ties to Catholic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The end of Roe triggered a Missouri law that immediately banned almost all abortions. Many were shocked when a major health care provider in the state announced it would also no longer offer emergency contraception pills – Plan B – because of a false belief that it could cause an abortion. While the health system soon reversed its policy, it wasn’t the first time Missouri policymakers have been roiled by the myth that emergency contraception can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting and cause an abortion. Reveal senior reporter and producer Katharine Mieszkowski tracks how lawmakers in the state have been confronting this misinformation campaign and looks to the future of how conservatives are aiming to use birth control as their new wedge issue.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/weekly\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually cause abortions.\nOne prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control pills to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient. Reveal’s Amy Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences.\nTens of millions of Americans use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and regulate their health. And many have well-founded complaints about side effects, from nausea to depression – not to mention well-justified anger about how the medical establishment often pooh-poohs those concerns. Anti-abortion and religious activists have jumped into the fray, urging people to reject hormonal birth control as “toxic” and promoting non-hormonal “fertility awareness” methods – a movement they’re trying to rebrand as “green sex.” Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explains how secular wellness influencers such as Jolene Brighten, who sells a $300 birth control “hormone reset,” are having their messages adopted by anti-abortion influencers, many of them with deep ties to Catholic institutions.\nThe end of Roe triggered a Missouri law that immediately banned almost all abortions. Many were shocked when a major health care provider in the state announced it would also no longer offer emergency contraception pills – Plan B – because of a false belief that it could cause an abortion. While the health system soon reversed its policy, it wasn’t the first time Missouri policymakers have been roiled by the myth that emergency contraception can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting and cause an abortion. Reveal senior reporter and producer Katharine Mieszkowski tracks how lawmakers in the state have been confronting this misinformation campaign and looks to the future of how conservatives are aiming to use birth control as their new wedge issue.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually \u003cem>cause\u003c/em> abortions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>One prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control pills to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient. Reveal’s Amy Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Tens of millions of Americans use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and regulate their health. And many have well-founded complaints about side effects, from nausea to depression – not to mention well-justified anger about how the medical establishment often pooh-poohs those concerns. Anti-abortion and religious activists have jumped into the fray, urging people to reject hormonal birth control as “toxic” and promoting non-hormonal “fertility awareness” methods – a movement they’re trying to rebrand as “green sex.” Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explains how secular wellness influencers such as Jolene Brighten, who sells a $300 birth control “hormone reset,” are having their messages adopted by anti-abortion influencers, many of them with deep ties to Catholic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The end of Roe triggered a Missouri law that immediately banned almost all abortions. Many were shocked when a major health care provider in the state announced it would also no longer offer emergency contraception pills – Plan B – because of a false belief that it could cause an abortion. While the health system soon reversed its policy, it wasn’t the first time Missouri policymakers have been roiled by the myth that emergency contraception can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting and cause an abortion. Reveal senior reporter and producer Katharine Mieszkowski tracks how lawmakers in the state have been confronting this misinformation campaign and looks to the future of how conservatives are aiming to use birth control as their new wedge issue.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/weekly\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The Border Patrol is one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S., with roughly 19,000 officers. It also has one of the largest gender disparities – for decades, the number of women on the force has held steady around 5%. Despite years of demands for reform, the Border Patrol hasn’t managed to substantially increase the number of women in the agency.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reporter Erin Siegal McIntyre set out to examine why this number has remained so low. She spoke with more than two dozen current and former Border Patrol agents and reviewed hundreds of pages of complaints and lawsuits in which agents allege sexual harassment or assault. Those interviews and documents reveal a workplace where a wide range of sexual misconduct is pervasive: from stale sex jokes to retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct and assault and rape.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Siegal McIntyre starts with the first class of women who were allowed to become Border Patrol agents in 1975. We hear from Ernestine Lopez, a member of that class. Days before graduation, she is raped by a classmate and reports it. She’s abruptly fired, leading her on a 12-year legal battle against the government. This is the first time Lopez, now 85, has told her story publicly.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, we hear from a young woman who loved working as an agent but left the Border Patrol at the peak of her career. Her supervisor had targeted her and other women on her team by hiding a camera in the floor drain in the women’s restroom. This is the first time she has spoken to a news outlet about her experience of reporting her supervisor and pursuing a case in court against him and the Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then we follow the story of Kevin Warner, a Border Patrol probationary agent who was abruptly fired months after participating in a sex game along with a dozen other agents, including his superiors. Warner alleges that he was wrongfully discharged. Then Siegal McIntyre takes her reporting to a former chief of the Border Patrol, Mark Morgan. She asks about workplace culture, the low number of women in the agency and the lack of transparency around investigations of sexual misconduct in the patrol. \u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Support for Erin Siegal McIntyre’s work was provided by the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Harnisch Foundation. Special thanks to Ruth Ann Harnisch, Deborah Golden and the Gumshoe Group for their legal support and to John Turner and Gary Kirk from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC Chapel Hill.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "The Border Patrol is one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S., with roughly 19,000 officers. It also has one of the largest gender disparities – for decades, the number of women on the force has held steady around 5%. Despite years of demands for reform, the Border Patrol hasn’t managed to substantially increase the number of women in the agency.\nReporter Erin Siegal McIntyre set out to examine why this number has remained so low. She spoke with more than two dozen current and former Border Patrol agents and reviewed hundreds of pages of complaints and lawsuits in which agents allege sexual harassment or assault. Those interviews and documents reveal a workplace where a wide range of sexual misconduct is pervasive: from stale sex jokes to retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct and assault and rape.\nSiegal McIntyre starts with the first class of women who were allowed to become Border Patrol agents in 1975. We hear from Ernestine Lopez, a member of that class. Days before graduation, she is raped by a classmate and reports it. She’s abruptly fired, leading her on a 12-year legal battle against the government. This is the first time Lopez, now 85, has told her story publicly.\nNext, we hear from a young woman who loved working as an agent but left the Border Patrol at the peak of her career. Her supervisor had targeted her and other women on her team by hiding a camera in the floor drain in the women’s restroom. This is the first time she has spoken to a news outlet about her experience of reporting her supervisor and pursuing a case in court against him and the Border Patrol.\nThen we follow the story of Kevin Warner, a Border Patrol probationary agent who was abruptly fired months after participating in a sex game along with a dozen other agents, including his superiors. Warner alleges that he was wrongfully discharged. Then Siegal McIntyre takes her reporting to a former chief of the Border Patrol, Mark Morgan. She asks about workplace culture, the low number of women in the agency and the lack of transparency around investigations of sexual misconduct in the patrol. \nSupport for Erin Siegal McIntyre’s work was provided by the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Harnisch Foundation. Special thanks to Ruth Ann Harnisch, Deborah Golden and the Gumshoe Group for their legal support and to John Turner and Gary Kirk from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC Chapel Hill.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the teen’s murder, in part because Florida’s stand your ground law permits a person to use deadly force in self-defense – even if that person could have safely retreated. Nationwide protests after the trial called for stand your ground laws to be repealed and reformed. But instead, stand your ground laws have expanded to 38 states. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with Byron Castillo, a maintenance worker in North Carolina who was shot in the chest after mistakenly trying to get into the wrong apartment for a repair. While Castillo wound up out of work and deep in debt, police and prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the shooter, who said he was afraid someone was trying to break into his apartment. Researchers have found that states that enacted stand your ground laws have seen an increase in homicides – one study estimated that roughly 700 more people die in the U.S. every year because of stand your ground laws. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Opponents of stand your ground laws call them by a different name: “kill at will” laws. Jones speaks to lawmakers like Stephanie Howse, who fought against stand your ground legislation as an Ohio state representative, saying such laws put Black people's lives at risk. Howse and other Democratic lawmakers faced off against Republican politicians, backed by pro-gun lobbyists, intent on passing a stand your ground bill despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Modern-day stand your ground laws started in Florida. Reveal reporter Nadia Hamdan explores a 2011 road rage incident that wound up leading to an expansion of the law. She looks at how one case led Florida lawmakers, backed by the National Rifle Association, to enact a law that spells out that prosecutors, not defendants, have the burden of proof when claiming someone was not acting in self-defense when committing an act of violence against another individual. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/no-retreat-the-dangers-of-stand-your-ground/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the teen’s murder, in part because Florida’s stand your ground law permits a person to use deadly force in self-defense – even if that person could have safely retreated. Nationwide protests after the trial called for stand your ground laws to be repealed and reformed. But instead, stand your ground laws have expanded to 38 states. \nReveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with Byron Castillo, a maintenance worker in North Carolina who was shot in the chest after mistakenly trying to get into the wrong apartment for a repair. While Castillo wound up out of work and deep in debt, police and prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the shooter, who said he was afraid someone was trying to break into his apartment. Researchers have found that states that enacted stand your ground laws have seen an increase in homicides – one study estimated that roughly 700 more people die in the U.S. every year because of stand your ground laws. \nOpponents of stand your ground laws call them by a different name: “kill at will” laws. Jones speaks to lawmakers like Stephanie Howse, who fought against stand your ground legislation as an Ohio state representative, saying such laws put Black people's lives at risk. Howse and other Democratic lawmakers faced off against Republican politicians, backed by pro-gun lobbyists, intent on passing a stand your ground bill despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups and law enforcement.\nModern-day stand your ground laws started in Florida. Reveal reporter Nadia Hamdan explores a 2011 road rage incident that wound up leading to an expansion of the law. She looks at how one case led Florida lawmakers, backed by the National Rifle Association, to enact a law that spells out that prosecutors, not defendants, have the burden of proof when claiming someone was not acting in self-defense when committing an act of violence against another individual. \nThis episode originally aired in July 2022.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>This is the third episode in our three-part series taking listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19. Series host Jessica Malaty Rivera and reporters Artis Curiskis and Kara Oehler bring us the conclusion of The COVID Tracking Project story and an interview with the current CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. \u003c/p>\u003cp>We look at the myth that COVID-19 was “the great equalizer,” an idea touted by celebrities and politicians from Madonna to then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Ibram X. Kendi and Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research worked with The COVID Tracking Project to compile national numbers on how COVID-19 affected people of color in the U.S. Their effort, The COVID Racial Data Tracker, showed that people of color died from the disease at around twice the rate of White people.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The COVID Tracking Project’s volunteer data collection team waited months for the CDC to release COVID-19 testing data. But when the CDC finally started publishing the data, it was different from what states were publishing – in some instances, it was off by hundreds of thousands of tests. With no clear answers about why, The COVID Tracking Project’s quest to keep national data flowing every day continued until March 2021. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Lastly, Rivera talks with the director of the CDC, Walensky, to try to understand what went wrong in the agency’s response to the pandemic and ask whether it’s prepared for the next one.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Check out our whole \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/covid-tracking-project\">\u003cstrong>COVID Tracking Project series\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> here. \u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The United States has 4% of the world’s population but 16% of COVID-19 deaths. This series investigates the failures by federal agencies that led to over 1 million Americans dying from COVID-19 and what that tells us about the nation’s ability to fight the next pandemic. Epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera is the host and Artis Curiskis and Kara Oehler are the reporters for this three-part series. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The first episode takes us back to February 2020, when reporters Rob Meyer and Alexis Madrigal from The Atlantic were trying to find solid data about the rising pandemic. They published a story that revealed a scary truth: The U.S. didn’t know where COVID-19 was spreading because few tests were available. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also didn’t have public data to tell citizens or federal agencies how many people were infected or where the outbreaks were happening. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Their reporting led to a massive volunteer effort by hundreds of people across the country who gathered the data themselves. The COVID Tracking Project became a de facto source of data amid the chaos of COVID-19. With case counts rising quickly, volunteers scrambled to document tests, hospitalizations and deaths in an effort to show where the virus was and who was dying.\u003c/p>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Twitter\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Facebook\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>A sharp sound. Followed by body numbness. Difficulty speaking. Extreme head pain. Since 2016, U.S. officials across the world – in Cuba, China and Russia – have reported experiencing the sudden onset of an array of eerie symptoms. Reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson try to make sense of this confusing illness that has come to be called Havana syndrome. This episode is built from reporting for an eight-part \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/havana-syndrome/id1661362245\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VICE World News podcast \u003c/a>series by the same name. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The reporters begin by tracking down one of the first people to report Havana syndrome symptoms, a CIA officer working in Cuba. This “patient zero” explains the ways Cuban intelligence surveil and harass American spies working on the island and his own experience of suddenly being struck with a mysterious, painful condition. When he reports the illness to his bosses at the CIA, he learns that other U.S. officials on the island are experiencing the same thing. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>A CIA doctor sees reports from the field about this strange condition happening in Cuba. He’s sent to Havana to investigate the cause of the symptoms and whether they may be caused by a mysterious sound recorded by patient zero. But during his first night on the island, the CIA doctor falls ill with the same syndrome he is there to investigate. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In the third segment, reporters Entous and Anderson head to Havana to visit the sites where people reported the onset of their symptoms, looking for answers. The team shares reporting-informed theories about who and what could be causing Havana syndrome. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In the second half of our two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), members of the Pine Ridge community put pressure on the Catholic Church to share information about the boarding school it ran on the reservation. \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/indian-boarding-schools-part-one/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to part 1 here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, visits Red Cloud Indian School, which has launched a truth and healing initiative for former students and their descendants. A youth-led activist group called the International Indigenous Youth Council has created a list of demands that includes financial reparations and the return of tribal land. The group also wants the Catholic Church to open up its records about the school’s past, especially information about children who may have died there. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pember travels to the archives of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, which administered boarding schools like Red Cloud. She discovers that many records are redacted or off-limits entirely, but then comes across a nuns’ diary that ends up containing important information. Buried in the diary entries is information about the school’s finances, the massacre at Wounded Knee and children who died at the school more than a century ago. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pember then returns to Red Cloud and attends the graduation ceremony for the class of 2022. In its early years, the school tried to strip students of their culture, but these days, it teaches the Lakota language and boasts a high graduation rate and rigorous academics. Pember presents what she’s learned about the school’s history to the head of the Jesuit community in western South Dakota and to the school’s president. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In a two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), we expose the painful legacy of boarding schools for Native children.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>These schools were part of a federal program designed to destroy Native culture and spirituality, with the stated goal to “kill the Indian and save the man.” ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, explores the role the Catholic Church played in creating U.S. policy toward Native people and takes us to the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Under pressure from the community, the school has launched a truth and healing program and is helping to reintroduce traditional culture to its students.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Pember visits 89-year-old boarding school survivor Basil Brave Heart, who was sent to the Red Cloud School in the 1930s. He vividly remembers being traumatized by the experience and says many of his schoolmates suffered for the rest of their lives. We also hear from Dr. Donald Warne from Johns Hopkins University, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe who studies how the trauma of boarding schools is passed down through the generations.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with what is perhaps the most sensitive part of the Red Cloud School’s search for the truth about its past: the hunt for students who may have died at the school and were buried in unmarked graves. The school has brought in ground-penetrating radar to examine selected parts of the campus, but for some residents, that effort is falling short. They want the entire campus scanned for potential graves.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/indian-boarding-schools-part-one/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a local restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more like a frat house than a quaint roadside sandwich spot. And the crude behavior kept escalating – until one day she says her boss went too far and she turned to the local police for help. What happened next would put a detective on the hot seat and lead to a legal battle that would drag on for years. The United States Supreme Court would even get involved.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nReveal reporter Rachel de Leon spent years taking a close look at cases across the country in which people reported sexual assaults to police, only to find themselves investigated. In this hour, we explore one case and hear how police interrogated an alleged perpetrator, an alleged victim and each other. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>De Leon’s investigation is also the subject of a forthcoming documentary, “Victim/Suspect,” which debuts May 23 on Netflix. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In the early 2000s, rampant steroid use across Major League Baseball became the biggest scandal in the sport’s history. But fans didn’t want to hear the difficult truth about their heroes – and the league didn’t want to intervene and clean up a mess it helped make. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We look back at how the scandal unraveled with our colleagues from the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.religionofsports.com/crushed/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Crushed\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://www.religionofsports.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Religion of Sports\u003c/a> and PRX. Their show revisits the steroid era to untangle its truth from the many myths, examine the legacy of baseball’s so-called steroid era and explore what it tells us about sports culture in America.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We start during the 1998 MLB season, when the home run race was on. Superstar sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa battled to set a new single-season record, and McGwire, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman, was portrayed as the hero baseball needed: part humble, wholesome, working man and part action hero, with his brawny build and enormous biceps. So when a reporter spotted a suspicious bottle of pills in his locker in the middle of the season, most fans plugged their ears and refused to acknowledge that baseball might be hooked on steroids.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Joan Niesen, a sportswriter and host of the podcast Crushed, takes us on a deep dive into an era that dethroned a generation of superstars, left fans disillusioned and turned baseball’s record book on its head. The story takes us from ballparks and clubhouses to the halls of Congress to explain how baseball was finally forced to reckon with its drug problem.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/baseball-strikes-out/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "In the early 2000s, rampant steroid use across Major League Baseball became the biggest scandal in the sport’s history. But fans didn’t want to hear the difficult truth about their heroes – and the league didn’t want to intervene and clean up a mess it helped make. \nWe look back at how the scandal unraveled with our colleagues from the podcast Crushed from Religion of Sports and PRX. Their show revisits the steroid era to untangle its truth from the many myths, examine the legacy of baseball’s so-called steroid era and explore what it tells us about sports culture in America.\nWe start during the 1998 MLB season, when the home run race was on. Superstar sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa battled to set a new single-season record, and McGwire, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman, was portrayed as the hero baseball needed: part humble, wholesome, working man and part action hero, with his brawny build and enormous biceps. So when a reporter spotted a suspicious bottle of pills in his locker in the middle of the season, most fans plugged their ears and refused to acknowledge that baseball might be hooked on steroids.\nJoan Niesen, a sportswriter and host of the podcast Crushed, takes us on a deep dive into an era that dethroned a generation of superstars, left fans disillusioned and turned baseball’s record book on its head. The story takes us from ballparks and clubhouses to the halls of Congress to explain how baseball was finally forced to reckon with its drug problem.\nThis is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in July 2021. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with the Associated Press, reporters on the front lines take us inside Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and share never-before-heard recordings of Russian soldiers. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The day President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, Feb. 24, 2022, Russia unleashed a brutal assault on the strategic port city of Mariupol. That same day, a team of AP reporters arrived in the city. Vasilisa Stepanenko, Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov kept their cameras and tape recorders rolling throughout the onslaught. Together, they captured some of the defining images of the war in Ukraine. Stepanenko and Maloletka talk with guest host Michael Montgomery about risking their lives to document blasted buildings, burned-out cars, enormous bomb craters and the daily life of traumatized civilians. As Russian troops advanced on Mariupol, the journalists managed to escape with hours of their own material and recordings from the body camera of a noted Ukrainian medic, Yuliia Paievska. The powerful footage went viral and showed the world the shocking brutalities of the war, as well as remarkable acts of courage by journalists, doctors and ordinary citizens. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, we listen to audio that’s never been publicly shared before: phone calls Russian soldiers made during the first weeks of the invasion, secretly recorded by the Ukrainian government. AP reporter Erika Kinetz obtained more than 2,000 of these calls. Using social media and other tools, she explores the lives of two soldiers whose calls home capture intimate moments with friends and family. The intercepted calls reveal the fear-mongering and patriotism that led some of the men to go from living regular lives as husbands, sons and fathers to talking about killing civilians. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Russian soldiers left streets strewn with the bodies of civilians killed during their brief occupation. Kinetz shares her experiences visiting Bucha and speaking with survivors soon after Russian troops retreated. In the secret intercepts, Russian soldiers tell their families about being ordered to take no prisoners and speak of “cleansing operations.” One soldier tells his mother: “We don’t imprison them. We kill them all.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Will Russian soldiers and political leaders be prosecuted for war crimes? Montgomery talks with Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer who received a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. She runs the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which has been gathering evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes in Ukraine since Russia’s first invasion in 2014. Matviichuk says it’s important for war crimes to be handled by Ukrainian courts, but the country’s legal system is overwhelmed and notoriously corrupt. She says there is an important role for the international community in creating a system that can bring justice for all Ukrainians. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "In this week’s episode, produced in collaboration with the Associated Press, reporters on the front lines take us inside Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and share never-before-heard recordings of Russian soldiers. \nThe day President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, Feb. 24, 2022, Russia unleashed a brutal assault on the strategic port city of Mariupol. That same day, a team of AP reporters arrived in the city. Vasilisa Stepanenko, Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov kept their cameras and tape recorders rolling throughout the onslaught. Together, they captured some of the defining images of the war in Ukraine. Stepanenko and Maloletka talk with guest host Michael Montgomery about risking their lives to document blasted buildings, burned-out cars, enormous bomb craters and the daily life of traumatized civilians. As Russian troops advanced on Mariupol, the journalists managed to escape with hours of their own material and recordings from the body camera of a noted Ukrainian medic, Yuliia Paievska. The powerful footage went viral and showed the world the shocking brutalities of the war, as well as remarkable acts of courage by journalists, doctors and ordinary citizens. \nNext, we listen to audio that’s never been publicly shared before: phone calls Russian soldiers made during the first weeks of the invasion, secretly recorded by the Ukrainian government. AP reporter Erika Kinetz obtained more than 2,000 of these calls. Using social media and other tools, she explores the lives of two soldiers whose calls home capture intimate moments with friends and family. The intercepted calls reveal the fear-mongering and patriotism that led some of the men to go from living regular lives as husbands, sons and fathers to talking about killing civilians. \nIn Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Russian soldiers left streets strewn with the bodies of civilians killed during their brief occupation. Kinetz shares her experiences visiting Bucha and speaking with survivors soon after Russian troops retreated. In the secret intercepts, Russian soldiers tell their families about being ordered to take no prisoners and speak of “cleansing operations.” One soldier tells his mother: “We don’t imprison them. We kill them all.” \nWill Russian soldiers and political leaders be prosecuted for war crimes? Montgomery talks with Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer who received a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. She runs the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which has been gathering evidence of human rights abuses and war crimes in Ukraine since Russia’s first invasion in 2014. Matviichuk says it’s important for war crimes to be handled by Ukrainian courts, but the country’s legal system is overwhelmed and notoriously corrupt. She says there is an important role for the international community in creating a system that can bring justice for all Ukrainians. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>WBEZ reporter Shannon Heffernan brings us the story of Anthony Gay, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. Gay lives with serious mental illness, and after time in solitary confinement, he began to act out. He was repeatedly charged with battery – often for throwing liquids at staff. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Gay acknowledges he did some of those things but says the prison put him in circumstances that made his mental illness worse – then punished him for the way he acted. With help from Chicago-based lawyers, Gay appealed to the local state’s attorney. What happens when a self-described “law and order” prosecutor has to decide between prison-town politics and doing what he believes the law requires? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Finally, host Al Letson speaks with \u003ca href=\"https://www.earhustlesq.com/listen\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ear Hustle\u003c/a> co-creator and co-host Earlonne Woods about the power of local prosecutors and the complicated politics of prison towns.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode is a partnership with the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbez.org/shows/motive/8c9f445c-4f62-46d6-a7f6-dc70a835e99b\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Motive\u003c/a> from WBEZ Chicago.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "WBEZ reporter Shannon Heffernan brings us the story of Anthony Gay, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. Gay lives with serious mental illness, and after time in solitary confinement, he began to act out. He was repeatedly charged with battery – often for throwing liquids at staff. \nGay acknowledges he did some of those things but says the prison put him in circumstances that made his mental illness worse – then punished him for the way he acted. With help from Chicago-based lawyers, Gay appealed to the local state’s attorney. What happens when a self-described “law and order” prosecutor has to decide between prison-town politics and doing what he believes the law requires? \nFinally, host Al Letson speaks with Ear Hustle co-creator and co-host Earlonne Woods about the power of local prosecutors and the complicated politics of prison towns.\nThis episode is a partnership with the podcast Motive from WBEZ Chicago. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. He seemed to be able to read the little books he was getting at school. But during the pandemic, Corinne had to give him a reading test at home, and she realized her son couldn’t read. He’d been memorizing books that were read to him but he didn’t know how to read new words he’d never seen before. Corinne decided to teach him herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>It’s a surprisingly common story. And kids who aren’t on track by the end of first grade are in danger of never becoming good readers. Two thirds of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. The problem is even worse when you look beyond the average and focus on specific groups of children: 83% of Black fourth graders don’t read proficiently.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say. Strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Research by cognitive scientists has demonstrated that readers need to know how to sound out words. But some teacher training programs still emphasize this debunked theory, including books and classroom materials that are popular around the world. Scientists say these strategies are teaching children the habits of struggling readers. Kids learn to skip letters and words and struggle to understand what they’re reading.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Hanford looks at the work of several authors who are all published by the same educational publishing company. One, Lucy Calkins, is a “rock star” among teachers. Her books and training programs are wildly popular. Calkins has now decided to rewrite her curriculum in response to “the science of reading.” But other authors are sticking to the idea that children can use other strategies to figure out the words. Their teaching materials are in classrooms all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reporter Christopher Peak also contributed to this story.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. He seemed to be able to read the little books he was getting at school. But during the pandemic, Corinne had to give him a reading test at home, and she realized her son couldn’t read. He’d been memorizing books that were read to him but he didn’t know how to read new words he’d never seen before. Corinne decided to teach him herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>It’s a surprisingly common story. And kids who aren’t on track by the end of first grade are in danger of never becoming good readers. Two thirds of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. The problem is even worse when you look beyond the average and focus on specific groups of children: 83% of Black fourth graders don’t read proficiently.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say. Strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Research by cognitive scientists has demonstrated that readers need to know how to sound out words. But some teacher training programs still emphasize this debunked theory, including books and classroom materials that are popular around the world. Scientists say these strategies are teaching children the habits of struggling readers. Kids learn to skip letters and words and struggle to understand what they’re reading.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Hanford looks at the work of several authors who are all published by the same educational publishing company. One, Lucy Calkins, is a “rock star” among teachers. Her books and training programs are wildly popular. Calkins has now decided to rewrite her curriculum in response to “the science of reading.” But other authors are sticking to the idea that children can use other strategies to figure out the words. Their teaching materials are in classrooms all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reporter Christopher Peak also contributed to this story.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups that stretches around the world. The reporting team at Verified: The Next Threat investigates how these militant groups are helping each other create propaganda, recruit new members and share paramilitary skills.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We are updating this episode, which \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/inside-global-fight-for-white-power/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">first aired in July,\u003c/a> to reflect recent activities by the Russian Imperial Movement and other white supremacist groups around the world. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We start with a group called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM. Its members are taking up arms in Russia’s war against Ukraine, which they say is a battle in a much larger “holy war” for White power. Scripps News senior investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt interviews a leader of the group who says RIM’s goal is to unite White nationalists around the world. The group even runs training camps where White supremacists can learn paramilitary tactics.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Russia’s White nationalists are making connections with extremists in the United States. Greenblatt talks with a neo-Nazi named Matt Heimbach, who was a major promoter of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon after Charlottesville, Heimbach invited members of RIM to the U.S. and connected them to his network of American White power extremists. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We end with a visit by Greenblatt to the State Department in Washington, where he interviews two top counterterrorism officials. They say they’re aware of the growing international network of White supremacists, but explain that White power groups are now forming political parties, which makes it more difficult for the agency to use its most powerful counterterrorism tools. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups that stretches around the world. The reporting team at Verified: The Next Threat investigates how these militant groups are helping each other create propaganda, recruit new members and share paramilitary skills.\nWe are updating this episode, which first aired in July, to reflect recent activities by the Russian Imperial Movement and other white supremacist groups around the world. \nWe start with a group called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM. Its members are taking up arms in Russia’s war against Ukraine, which they say is a battle in a much larger “holy war” for White power. Scripps News senior investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt interviews a leader of the group who says RIM’s goal is to unite White nationalists around the world. The group even runs training camps where White supremacists can learn paramilitary tactics.\nRussia’s White nationalists are making connections with extremists in the United States. Greenblatt talks with a neo-Nazi named Matt Heimbach, who was a major promoter of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon after Charlottesville, Heimbach invited members of RIM to the U.S. and connected them to his network of American White power extremists. \nWe end with a visit by Greenblatt to the State Department in Washington, where he interviews two top counterterrorism officials. They say they’re aware of the growing international network of White supremacists, but explain that White power groups are now forming political parties, which makes it more difficult for the agency to use its most powerful counterterrorism tools. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Dr. Gary Davis, an Ivy League-trained Black physician from Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a literal dream that the cure for AIDS would come from a goat. In the new podcast \u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/programs/serum/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Serum\u003c/a>, a reporting team at \u003ca href=\"https://whyy.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://localtrance.fm/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Local Trance Media\u003c/a> delve into the unusual story of a Davis’ quest to develop the cure.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the early ’90s, Davis derived a serum from goat blood that he believed could help cure HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He brought his research to the FDA to start a clinical trial – but just hours before it was supposed to start, it was shut down. Davis had powerful critics and ardent supporters. Some sued in court to be allowed to try Davis’ treatment, while others chose to ask for forgiveness rather than permission to get their hands on it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>What was the true potential of Davis’ serum – and who are the people who say it saved their lives?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell investigate the chilling history of how Southern states imprisoned mainly Black men, often for minor crimes, and then leased them out to private companies – for years, even decades, at a time. The team talks with the descendant of a man imprisoned in the Lone Rock stockade in Tennessee nearly 140 years ago, where people as young as 12 worked under inhumane conditions in coal mines and inferno-like ovens used to produce iron. This system of forced prison labor enriched the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad company – at the cost of prisoners’ lives. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>At the state park that sits on the former site of the Lone Rock stockade, relics from the hellish prison are buried beneath the soil. Archeologist Camille Westmont has found thousands of artifacts, such as utensils and the plates prisoners ate off. She has also created a database listing the names of those sent to Lone Rock. A team of volunteers are helping her, including a woman reckoning with her own ancestor’s involvement in this corrupt system and the wealth her family benefited from. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The United States Steel Corporation helped build bridges, railroads and towering skyscrapers across America. But the company also relied on forced prison labor. After US Steel took over Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad in 1907, the industrial giant used prison labor for at least five more years. During that time, more than 100 men died while working in their massive coal mining operation in Alabama. U.S. Steel has misrepresented this dark chapter of its history. And it has never apologized for its use of forced labor or the lives lost. The reporters push the company to answer questions about its past and engage with communities near the former mines. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/locked-up-the-prison-labor-that-built-business-empires/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">September 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell investigate the chilling history of how Southern states imprisoned mainly Black men, often for minor crimes, and then leased them out to private companies – for years, even decades, at a time. The team talks with the descendant of a man imprisoned in the Lone Rock stockade in Tennessee nearly 140 years ago, where people as young as 12 worked under inhumane conditions in coal mines and inferno-like ovens used to produce iron. This system of forced prison labor enriched the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad company – at the cost of prisoners’ lives. \nAt the state park that sits on the former site of the Lone Rock stockade, relics from the hellish prison are buried beneath the soil. Archeologist Camille Westmont has found thousands of artifacts, such as utensils and the plates prisoners ate off. She has also created a database listing the names of those sent to Lone Rock. A team of volunteers are helping her, including a woman reckoning with her own ancestor’s involvement in this corrupt system and the wealth her family benefited from. \nThe United States Steel Corporation helped build bridges, railroads and towering skyscrapers across America. But the company also relied on forced prison labor. After US Steel took over Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad in 1907, the industrial giant used prison labor for at least five more years. During that time, more than 100 men died while working in their massive coal mining operation in Alabama. U.S. Steel has misrepresented this dark chapter of its history. And it has never apologized for its use of forced labor or the lives lost. The reporters push the company to answer questions about its past and engage with communities near the former mines. \nThis is an update of an episode that originally aired September 2022.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Some of the most enduring photos of the civil rights movement were taken by Ernest Withers. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Withers earned the trust of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders. But as it turns out, he was secretly taking photos for the federal government as well. This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery brings us the story of Withers in an adaptation of the podcast “Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret,” from Scripps News and Stitcher.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Lowery starts by explaining how Withers earned his reputation as a chronicler of the civil rights movement. We tour a museum of Withers’ photographs with his daughter Roz, who deconstructs his famous “I Am a Man” photo of striking sanitation workers. Civil rights leader Andrew Young explains that without Withers’ photographs, they wouldn’t have had a movement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We then learn that after Withers’ death, a Memphis reporter named Marc Perrusquia followed up on an old lead about the photographer: that he was secretly working for the FBI. Perrusquia gained access to thousands of reports and photos taken for the FBI by Withers. We hear excerpts from several reports and meet the daughter of the agent who recruited Withers. During the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the bureau recruited thousands of informants as part of a covert program originally created to monitor communists in America but ended up targeting the civil rights movement, as well as other individuals and groups. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with reflections on Withers by people who knew him. While some believe Withers betrayed the cause of civil rights, others are more forgiving. They say his actions were part of a larger narrative about the U.S. government’s unchecked power to spy on its own citizens and extinguish ideas and movements it felt were a threat. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The United States has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, but Russia’s war in Ukraine set off a bonanza for liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Today, we look at how energy companies and the Biden administration are backsliding on promises to move away from oil and gas. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In response to Europe’s need for natural gas as it lost access to Russian supplies, America’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, Cheniere Energy, is expanding its facilities in Corpus Christi, Texas. Reporter Elizabeth Shogren talks with local residents who are organizing to fight the expansion and discovers that many LNG contracts are not with Europe after all. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to end drilling for oil and gas on federal land and offshore waters. And on his first day in office, he froze new drilling leases. But the administration backtracked and instead has increased the number of leases it’s offering to oil and gas companies. Host Al Letson gets a report card on Biden’s climate policy from two experts who are tracking his environmental record.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For many years, prominent Republicans disputed the existence of climate change and fought against environmental policies. That didn’t sit well with a young conservative college student, who in 2016 tried to put climate change on his party’s agenda. Reveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with the founder of the American Conservation Coalition and tracks how successful the group has been in getting Republican legislators to address climate change. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats may struggle to find common ground on addressing climate change. But for a tiny, predominantly Indigenous community in Alaska, it’s already too late. Reporter Emily Schwing went to Chevak to report on the damage from a recent storm and soon discovered a problem with the federal government’s response. Many residents don’t speak English as their first language, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is required to translate disaster relief notices into local languages. But FEMA bungled the translations, delaying much-needed aid and sowing distrust. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The bipartisan Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection recommended that former president Donald Trump face criminal charges for sparking the attempted coup. We look back at the case of Guy Reffitt, the first person to be prosecuted for his role in the violent insurrection. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, teenager Jackson Reffitt watched the Capitol riot play out on TV from his family home in Texas. His father, Guy, had a much closer view: He was in Washington, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, storming the building. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When Guy Reffitt returned home, Jackson secretly taped him and turned the recordings over to the FBI. His father bragged about what he did, saying: “I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over the Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Guy Reffitt was the first person to stand trial for his role in the riot, and the case has divided his family. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This week, Reveal features the story of the Reffitt family by partnering with the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-be-wild/id1618471287\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Will Be Wild \u003c/a>from Pineapple Street Studios, Wondery and Amazon Music. Hosted by Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, Will Be Wild’s eight-part series investigates the forces that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection and what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "The bipartisan Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection recommended that former president Donald Trump face criminal charges for sparking the attempted coup. We look back at the case of Guy Reffitt, the first person to be prosecuted for his role in the violent insurrection. \nOn Jan. 6, 2021, teenager Jackson Reffitt watched the Capitol riot play out on TV from his family home in Texas. His father, Guy, had a much closer view: He was in Washington, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, storming the building. \nWhen Guy Reffitt returned home, Jackson secretly taped him and turned the recordings over to the FBI. His father bragged about what he did, saying: “I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over the Congress.”\nGuy Reffitt was the first person to stand trial for his role in the riot, and the case has divided his family. \nThis week, Reveal features the story of the Reffitt family by partnering with the podcast Will Be Wild from Pineapple Street Studios, Wondery and Amazon Music. Hosted by Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, Will Be Wild’s eight-part series investigates the forces that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection and what comes next.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>The bipartisan Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection recommended that former president Donald Trump face criminal charges for sparking the attempted coup. We look back at the case of Guy Reffitt, the first person to be prosecuted for his role in the violent insurrection. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>On Jan. 6, 2021, teenager Jackson Reffitt watched the Capitol riot play out on TV from his family home in Texas. His father, Guy, had a much closer view: He was in Washington, armed with a semiautomatic handgun, storming the building. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>When Guy Reffitt returned home, Jackson secretly taped him and turned the recordings over to the FBI. His father bragged about what he did, saying: “I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over the Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Guy Reffitt was the first person to stand trial for his role in the riot, and the case has divided his family. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>This week, Reveal features the story of the Reffitt family by partnering with the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-be-wild/id1618471287\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Will Be Wild \u003c/a>from Pineapple Street Studios, Wondery and Amazon Music. Hosted by Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, Will Be Wild’s eight-part series investigates the forces that led to the Jan. 6 insurrection and what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The pandemic isn’t past tense. While COVID-19 vaccines have made it possible to gather with friends and hug loved ones again, the world is still living with the virus – and too many people are still dying because of it. More than a million people in the United States have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including about 250,000 people in 2022. To reflect on the lives the world has lost, we’re revisiting an episode that follows a young doctor through her first year of medical residency during the height of the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a> reporter Jenny Gold spent eight months following Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez, who graduated from the Stanford University medical school in June 2020, right before the virus began its second major surge. She was one of more than 30,000 new doctors who started residencies in 2020. Just weeks after graduating, Marin-Nevarez began training as an ER doctor at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, one of the areas in California hardest hit by the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Marin-Nevarez faces the loneliness and isolation of being a new doctor, working 80 hours a week in the era of masks and social distancing. She also witnesses the inequality of the pandemic, with Latino, Black and Native American people dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than White people. Marin-Nevarez finds herself surrounded by death and having to counsel families about the loss of loved ones. We view the pandemic through the eyes of a rookie doctor, finding her footing on the front lines of the virus. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/into-the-covid-icu/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">February 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "The pandemic isn’t past tense. While COVID-19 vaccines have made it possible to gather with friends and hug loved ones again, the world is still living with the virus – and too many people are still dying because of it. More than a million people in the United States have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including about 250,000 people in 2022. To reflect on the lives the world has lost, we’re revisiting an episode that follows a young doctor through her first year of medical residency during the height of the pandemic. \nKaiser Health News reporter Jenny Gold spent eight months following Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez, who graduated from the Stanford University medical school in June 2020, right before the virus began its second major surge. She was one of more than 30,000 new doctors who started residencies in 2020. Just weeks after graduating, Marin-Nevarez began training as an ER doctor at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, one of the areas in California hardest hit by the pandemic. \nMarin-Nevarez faces the loneliness and isolation of being a new doctor, working 80 hours a week in the era of masks and social distancing. She also witnesses the inequality of the pandemic, with Latino, Black and Native American people dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than White people. Marin-Nevarez finds herself surrounded by death and having to counsel families about the loss of loved ones. We view the pandemic through the eyes of a rookie doctor, finding her footing on the front lines of the virus. \nThis is an update of an episode that originally aired in February 2021. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Nordo was a rising star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people. But that day in the homicide unit, Wagner says Nordo asked him some unnerving questions: Would he ever consider doing porn? Guy-on-guy porn? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wagner would go on to be convicted of the murder in a case largely built by Nordo — and Wagner’s experience has led him to believe Nordo fabricated evidence and coerced false statements to frame him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed have dug into Nordo’s career, looking into allegations of his misconduct. In this episode, they follow the rumors to defense attorney Andrew Pappas, who subpoenas the prison call log between Nordo and one of his informants. It’s there he finds evidence that something is not right about the way Nordo is conducting his police work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>It’s Pappas’ findings that prompted the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to launch an investigation into Nordo. The patterns that prosecutors found by reviewing Nordo’s calls and emails with incarcerated men, examining his personnel file, and interviewing men who interacted with him showed shocking coercion and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years after the first complaint was filed against Nordo, the disgraced detective’s actions became public. He was charged and his case went to trial. Palmer and Melamed analyze the fallout from the scandal, and seek answers from the Philadelphia Police Department on how they addressed Nordo’s misconduct and how he got away with it for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Nordo was a rising star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people. But that day in the homicide unit, Wagner says Nordo asked him some unnerving questions: Would he ever consider doing porn? Guy-on-guy porn? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Wagner would go on to be convicted of the murder in a case largely built by Nordo — and Wagner’s experience has led him to believe Nordo fabricated evidence and coerced false statements to frame him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>For years, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed have dug into Nordo’s career, looking into allegations of his misconduct. In this episode, they follow the rumors to defense attorney Andrew Pappas, who subpoenas the prison call log between Nordo and one of his informants. It’s there he finds evidence that something is not right about the way Nordo is conducting his police work. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>It’s Pappas’ findings that prompted the Philadelphia district attorney’s office to launch an investigation into Nordo. The patterns that prosecutors found by reviewing Nordo’s calls and emails with incarcerated men, examining his personnel file, and interviewing men who interacted with him showed shocking coercion and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Almost 20 years after the first complaint was filed against Nordo, the disgraced detective’s actions became public. He was charged and his case went to trial. Palmer and Melamed analyze the fallout from the scandal, and seek answers from the Philadelphia Police Department on how they addressed Nordo’s misconduct and how he got away with it for so long. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/newsletter/?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=newsletter_2022_podcastdescription\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the teen’s murder, in part because Florida’s stand your ground law permits a person to use deadly force in self-defense – even if that person could have safely retreated. Nationwide protests after the trial called for stand your ground laws to be repealed and reformed. But instead, stand your ground laws have expanded to 38 states.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with Byron Castillo, a maintenance worker in North Carolina who was shot in the chest after mistakenly trying to get into the wrong apartment for a repair. While Castillo wound up out of work and deep in debt, police and prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the shooter, who said he was afraid someone was trying to break into his apartment. Researchers have found that states that enacted stand your ground laws have seen an increase in homicides – one study estimated that roughly 700 more people die in the U.S. every year because of stand your ground laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Opponents of stand your ground laws call them by a different name: “kill at will” laws. Jones speaks to lawmakers like Stephanie Howse, who fought against stand your ground legislation as an Ohio state representative, saying such laws put Black people's lives at risk. Howse and other Democratic lawmakers faced off against Republican politicians, backed by pro-gun lobbyists, intent on passing a stand your ground bill despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Modern-day stand your ground laws started in Florida. Reveal reporter Nadia Hamdan explores a 2011 road rage incident that wound up leading to an expansion of the law. She looks at how one case led Florida lawmakers, backed by the National Rifle Association, to enact a law that spells out that prosecutors, not defendants, have the burden of proof when claiming someone was not acting in self-defense when committing an act of violence against another individual.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/no-retreat-the-dangers-of-stand-your-ground/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
"excerpt": "The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the teen’s murder, in part because Florida’s stand your ground law permits a person to use deadly force in self-defense – even if that person could have safely retreated. Nationwide protests after the trial called for stand your ground laws to be repealed and reformed. But instead, stand your ground laws have expanded to 38 states.\nReveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with Byron Castillo, a maintenance worker in North Carolina who was shot in the chest after mistakenly trying to get into the wrong apartment for a repair. While Castillo wound up out of work and deep in debt, police and prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the shooter, who said he was afraid someone was trying to break into his apartment. Researchers have found that states that enacted stand your ground laws have seen an increase in homicides – one study estimated that roughly 700 more people die in the U.S. every year because of stand your ground laws.\nOpponents of stand your ground laws call them by a different name: “kill at will” laws. Jones speaks to lawmakers like Stephanie Howse, who fought against stand your ground legislation as an Ohio state representative, saying such laws put Black people's lives at risk. Howse and other Democratic lawmakers faced off against Republican politicians, backed by pro-gun lobbyists, intent on passing a stand your ground bill despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups and law enforcement.\nModern-day stand your ground laws started in Florida. Reveal reporter Nadia Hamdan explores a 2011 road rage incident that wound up leading to an expansion of the law. She looks at how one case led Florida lawmakers, backed by the National Rifle Association, to enact a law that spells out that prosecutors, not defendants, have the burden of proof when claiming someone was not acting in self-defense when committing an act of violence against another individual.\nThis episode originally aired in July 2022.\nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 marked the beginning of a new chapter of the struggle for civil rights in America. A mostly White jury acquitted George Zimmerman of the teen’s murder, in part because Florida’s stand your ground law permits a person to use deadly force in self-defense – even if that person could have safely retreated. Nationwide protests after the trial called for stand your ground laws to be repealed and reformed. But instead, stand your ground laws have expanded to 38 states.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal reporter Jonathan Jones talks with Byron Castillo, a maintenance worker in North Carolina who was shot in the chest after mistakenly trying to get into the wrong apartment for a repair. While Castillo wound up out of work and deep in debt, police and prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the shooter, who said he was afraid someone was trying to break into his apartment. Researchers have found that states that enacted stand your ground laws have seen an increase in homicides – one study estimated that roughly 700 more people die in the U.S. every year because of stand your ground laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Opponents of stand your ground laws call them by a different name: “kill at will” laws. Jones speaks to lawmakers like Stephanie Howse, who fought against stand your ground legislation as an Ohio state representative, saying such laws put Black people's lives at risk. Howse and other Democratic lawmakers faced off against Republican politicians, backed by pro-gun lobbyists, intent on passing a stand your ground bill despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Modern-day stand your ground laws started in Florida. Reveal reporter Nadia Hamdan explores a 2011 road rage incident that wound up leading to an expansion of the law. She looks at how one case led Florida lawmakers, backed by the National Rifle Association, to enact a law that spells out that prosecutors, not defendants, have the burden of proof when claiming someone was not acting in self-defense when committing an act of violence against another individual.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/no-retreat-the-dangers-of-stand-your-ground/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Sugar is a big part of Americans’ daily diet, but we rarely ask where that sweet cane comes from. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In November, the United States announced that it will \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/us-bans-sugar-imports-dominican-republic-producer/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">block all imports of raw sugar\u003c/a> from one of those sources: the cane fields owned by the Central Romana Corp. in the Dominican Republic. U.S. Customs and Border Protection cited labor abuses in its decision. Sugar from Central Romana feeds into the supply chains of major U.S. brands, including Domino and Hershey. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The federal government’s action follows a two-year investigation by Reveal and Mother Jones. Reporters Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel visited Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic who do the backbreaking work of cutting sugarcane for little pay. Central Romana is the Dominican Republic’s largest private employer and has strong links to two powerful Florida businessmen, Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul. The reporters speak to workers who have no access to government pensions, so they’re forced to work in the fields into their 80s for as little as $3 a day. In the 1990s, Tolan reported on human trafficking and child labor in the Dominican sugar industry. Conditions improved following pressure on the government from local activists, human rights groups and the U.S. Labor Department. But major problems have persisted. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>After Reveal’s story first aired in fall 2021, Congress took action. Fifteen members of the House Ways and Means Committee called on federal agencies to formulate a plan to address what they called the “slave-like conditions” in the Dominican cane fields. Central Romana also took action: It bulldozed one of the worker camps our reporters visited, claiming it was part of an improvement program. Residents say that with very little warning, they were told to pack up their lives. Central Romana denies the U.S. government’s recent findings that its cane cutters are working under forced labor conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in September 2021.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Sugar is a big part of Americans’ daily diet, but we rarely ask where that sweet cane comes from. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In November, the United States announced that it will \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/us-bans-sugar-imports-dominican-republic-producer/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">block all imports of raw sugar\u003c/a> from one of those sources: the cane fields owned by the Central Romana Corp. in the Dominican Republic. U.S. Customs and Border Protection cited labor abuses in its decision. Sugar from Central Romana feeds into the supply chains of major U.S. brands, including Domino and Hershey. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The federal government’s action follows a two-year investigation by Reveal and Mother Jones. Reporters Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel visited Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic who do the backbreaking work of cutting sugarcane for little pay. Central Romana is the Dominican Republic’s largest private employer and has strong links to two powerful Florida businessmen, Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul. The reporters speak to workers who have no access to government pensions, so they’re forced to work in the fields into their 80s for as little as $3 a day. In the 1990s, Tolan reported on human trafficking and child labor in the Dominican sugar industry. Conditions improved following pressure on the government from local activists, human rights groups and the U.S. Labor Department. But major problems have persisted. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>After Reveal’s story first aired in fall 2021, Congress took action. Fifteen members of the House Ways and Means Committee called on federal agencies to formulate a plan to address what they called the “slave-like conditions” in the Dominican cane fields. Central Romana also took action: It bulldozed one of the worker camps our reporters visited, claiming it was part of an improvement program. Residents say that with very little warning, they were told to pack up their lives. Central Romana denies the U.S. government’s recent findings that its cane cutters are working under forced labor conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an update of an episode that originally aired in September 2021.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>After years of growth, Amazon is now laying off thousands of employees. But with the holiday season underway, the company’s warehouse workers still have to race to fill gift orders. This week, Reveal revisits Amazon’s safety record.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Host Al Letson speaks with Reveal’s Will Evans, who’s been reporting on injuries at Amazon for years. By gathering injury data and speaking with workers and whistleblowers, he has shown that Amazon warehouse employees are injured on the job at a higher rate than at other companies. Evans’ reporting has focused national attention on the company’s safety record, prompting regulators, lawmakers and the company itself to address the issue more closely. This November, members of Congress scrutinized Amazon’s working conditions—and at the state level, lawmakers and safety regulators are taking action against Amazon in ways they never have before. \u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, we bring back a story by Jennifer Gollan that looks at the most common type of injury at Amazon and other workplaces, repetitive motion injuries. Gollan reports that decades ago, the federal government decided to impose safety regulations to try and prevent these injuries, then abruptly changed its mind. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We end with a reprise of a story from reporter Laura Sydell about online reviews of products and businesses and how many of them are not what they seem. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Reveal host Al Letson talks with leading academics and journalists to take the temperature of American democracy: What did we expect from the midterms, what did we get, and what does that mean for 2024?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Ese Olumhense and Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman discuss how gerrymandering, abortion rights, election denial and fear of voting crimes played out in contentious states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, who report on threats to democracy for ProPublica and are hosts of the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-be-wild/id1618471287\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WIll Be Wild\u003c/a>, join Letson to discuss how the violence and disinformation that sparked the Jan. 6 insurrection continues to shape the country’s political landscape. The reporters tell the story of how the Department of Homeland Security backed off efforts to identify and combat false information after Republican pundits and politicians accused the Biden administration of stomping on the free speech rights of anyone who disagrees with them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, reporter Jessica Pishko delves into the world of a group called the constitutional sheriffs. This association of rogue sheriffs claims to be the highest law in the land and has increasingly come to see themselves as election police. Pishko attends a meeting in Arizona where Richard Mack, a leader of the movement who has also been involved with the far-right Oath Keepers, extols the rights of sheriffs to get involved in monitoring elections. In recent years, this right-wing group has grown from a fringe organization to one with national power and prominence. Pishko discusses the chilling effect these sheriffs have on voting.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In his time as president, Donald Trump bucked the norms and mixed presidential duties with personal business, refused to release his tax returns and pardoned his political allies.This week, he announced he’s running for president again in 2024. Letson speaks with two lawyers who have spent the past two years identifying how to rein in presidential power and close loopholes Trump exposed: Bob Bauer, former White House counsel for President Barack Obama, and Jack Goldsmith, former assistant attorney general in President George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel. They’re also co-authors of the 2020 book “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>Reveal host Al Letson talks with leading academics and journalists to take the temperature of American democracy: What did we expect from the midterms, what did we get, and what does that mean for 2024?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Reveal’s Ese Olumhense and Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman discuss how gerrymandering, abortion rights, election denial and fear of voting crimes played out in contentious states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Florida.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, who report on threats to democracy for ProPublica and are hosts of the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-be-wild/id1618471287\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WIll Be Wild\u003c/a>, join Letson to discuss how the violence and disinformation that sparked the Jan. 6 insurrection continues to shape the country’s political landscape. The reporters tell the story of how the Department of Homeland Security backed off efforts to identify and combat false information after Republican pundits and politicians accused the Biden administration of stomping on the free speech rights of anyone who disagrees with them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Then, reporter Jessica Pishko delves into the world of a group called the constitutional sheriffs. This association of rogue sheriffs claims to be the highest law in the land and has increasingly come to see themselves as election police. Pishko attends a meeting in Arizona where Richard Mack, a leader of the movement who has also been involved with the far-right Oath Keepers, extols the rights of sheriffs to get involved in monitoring elections. In recent years, this right-wing group has grown from a fringe organization to one with national power and prominence. Pishko discusses the chilling effect these sheriffs have on voting.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>In his time as president, Donald Trump bucked the norms and mixed presidential duties with personal business, refused to release his tax returns and pardoned his political allies.This week, he announced he’s running for president again in 2024. Letson speaks with two lawyers who have spent the past two years identifying how to rein in presidential power and close loopholes Trump exposed: Bob Bauer, former White House counsel for President Barack Obama, and Jack Goldsmith, former assistant attorney general in President George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel. They’re also co-authors of the 2020 book “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Robin Amer of USA Today’s investigative podcast The City shares the story behind a massive illegal dump that appeared in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood in the ’90s. Local kids remember playing on the 21-acre, six-story mountain of debris, and adults recall the seemingly endless stream of dump trucks that rumbled down the street to the formerly vacant lot at all hours of the day and night. Wind blowing over the dump covered the neighborhood in thick dust, affecting the health of nearby residents. When community leaders confronted the man responsible for the dump, they found he was just one part of a larger operation. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The FBI was using the North Lawndale dump and the man who created it as part of an investigation into political corruption called Operation Silver Shovel. The operation would bring down politicians and city officials who accepted bribes for allowing things like the illegal dump to happen in their districts. But after the indictments and the operation’s end, no one wanted to take responsibility for cleaning up the dump – not the FBI, not the City of Chicago and not the man who created it. The debris sat for years, leaving North Lawndale residents feeling angry and used. The civic neglect and institutional racism that allowed the dump to happen in the first place has continued, long after the last truck of debris was carted away. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>Sea levels are rising – and the United States has a lot to learn from countries that are already adapting. Reporter Shola Lawal of the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.thresholdpodcast.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Threshold\u003c/a> explores how two communities in Nigeria are dealing with it. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Lagos, the booming coastal city of Nigeria, is growing even as rising water levels threaten its future. Lawal visits the informal community of Makoko, where people have learned to live with water: Many homes are built on stilts. In a community where many people make a living fishing, small houses rise above the water, vendors sell vegetables and goods from floating markets, and locals ferry people to destinations in canoes. A lack of dry land has forced residents to innovate in creative ways. But the government has threatened to destroy Makoko, declaring the neighborhood an eyesore. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Lawal visits Eko Atlantic City, an “ultra-modern” luxury city that a development company is building on sand dredged up from the ocean floor. In contrast to the scrappy adaptations Makoko residents have made to live on water, the million-dollar apartments of Eko Atlantic are protected by an enormous seawall. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Each year, global leaders gather to discuss the climate crisis at COP, the United Nations climate conference. Threshold Executive Producer Amy Martin talks with Reveal host Al Letson about this year’s COP27. While nearly every country on the planet attends these annual conferences, a much smaller number – about 20 economies – are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s left more vulnerable countries asking – what are the richest countries going to do to pay for the damage they’ve caused? \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In August 2020, Guillermina Fuentes was trying to get out the vote in her small Arizona community. Outside a polling place, she handed a few absentee ballots to another volunteer to drop off. A conservative activist secretly filmed her and reported her to local authorities. In the eyes of the law, she’d just committed a felony. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Dropping off someone else’s mail-in ballot, known as ballot collecting, became a crime in Arizona in 2016, and Fuentes would become the first person prosecuted for it. Reveal reporter Ese Olumhense travels to San Luis to report on Fuentes’ case and finds she has gone from being a well-known local politician in her community to the face of right-wing campaigns against voter fraud. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Fuentes’ arrest and prosecution show the beginnings of an alarming trend shaping the future of how elections are surveilled and policed. Olumhense and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis built a database to track all election-crimes-related bills introduced in the country since the 2020 election. They found a national push to punish what is considered in many states to be typical voting practices. Fueled in part by politicians who falsely claim voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, bills are being introduced that create new election crime investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>While there was no proof of anything resembling widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, there is one way in which elections are rigged: gerrymandering. Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman delves into how Republicans redrew voting maps in Wisconsin, helping them cement control of the state Legislature. Republicans’ strong hold on power has allowed them to keep in place deeply unpopular laws like an abortion ban that dates back to 1849. But this isn’t about just state politics: It’s also about the next election for president in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "In August 2020, Guillermina Fuentes was trying to get out the vote in her small Arizona community. Outside a polling place, she handed a few absentee ballots to another volunteer to drop off. A conservative activist secretly filmed her and reported her to local authorities. In the eyes of the law, she’d just committed a felony. \nDropping off someone else’s mail-in ballot, known as ballot collecting, became a crime in Arizona in 2016, and Fuentes would become the first person prosecuted for it. Reveal reporter Ese Olumhense travels to San Luis to report on Fuentes’ case and finds she has gone from being a well-known local politician in her community to the face of right-wing campaigns against voter fraud. \nFuentes’ arrest and prosecution show the beginnings of an alarming trend shaping the future of how elections are surveilled and policed. Olumhense and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis built a database to track all election-crimes-related bills introduced in the country since the 2020 election. They found a national push to punish what is considered in many states to be typical voting practices. Fueled in part by politicians who falsely claim voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, bills are being introduced that create new election crime investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes. \nWhile there was no proof of anything resembling widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, there is one way in which elections are rigged: gerrymandering. Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman delves into how Republicans redrew voting maps in Wisconsin, helping them cement control of the state Legislature. Republicans’ strong hold on power has allowed them to keep in place deeply unpopular laws like an abortion ban that dates back to 1849. But this isn’t about just state politics: It’s also about the next election for president in 2024. \nSupport Reveal’s journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow\n\n\nSubscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at revealnews.org/weekly\n\n\nConnect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n \u003cp>In August 2020, Guillermina Fuentes was trying to get out the vote in her small Arizona community. Outside a polling place, she handed a few absentee ballots to another volunteer to drop off. A conservative activist secretly filmed her and reported her to local authorities. In the eyes of the law, she’d just committed a felony. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Dropping off someone else’s mail-in ballot, known as ballot collecting, became a crime in Arizona in 2016, and Fuentes would become the first person prosecuted for it. Reveal reporter Ese Olumhense travels to San Luis to report on Fuentes’ case and finds she has gone from being a well-known local politician in her community to the face of right-wing campaigns against voter fraud. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Fuentes’ arrest and prosecution show the beginnings of an alarming trend shaping the future of how elections are surveilled and policed. Olumhense and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis built a database to track all election-crimes-related bills introduced in the country since the 2020 election. They found a national push to punish what is considered in many states to be typical voting practices. Fueled in part by politicians who falsely claim voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, bills are being introduced that create new election crime investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>While there was no proof of anything resembling widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, there is one way in which elections are rigged: gerrymandering. Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman delves into how Republicans redrew voting maps in Wisconsin, helping them cement control of the state Legislature. Republicans’ strong hold on power has allowed them to keep in place deeply unpopular laws like an abortion ban that dates back to 1849. But this isn’t about just state politics: It’s also about the next election for president in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In the second half of our two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), members of the Pine Ridge community put pressure on the Catholic Church to share information about the boarding school it ran on the reservation. \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/indian-boarding-schools-part-one/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to part 1 here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, visits Red Cloud Indian School, which has launched a truth and healing initiative for former students and their descendants. A youth-led activist group called the International Indigenous Youth Council has created a list of demands that includes financial reparations and the return of tribal land. The group also wants the Catholic Church to open up its records about the school’s past, especially information about children who may have died there. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pember travels to the archives of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, which administered boarding schools like Red Cloud. She discovers that many records are redacted or off-limits entirely, but then comes across a nuns’ diary that ends up containing important information. Buried in the diary entries is information about the school’s finances, the massacre at Wounded Knee and children who died at the school more than a century ago. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Pember then returns to Red Cloud and attends the graduation ceremony for the class of 2022. In its early years, the school tried to strip students of their culture, but these days, it teaches the Lakota language and boasts a high graduation rate and rigorous academics. Pember presents what she’s learned about the school’s history to the head of the Jesuit community in western South Dakota and to the school’s president. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>In a two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), we expose the painful legacy of boarding schools for Native children. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>These schools were part of a federal program designed to destroy Native culture and spirituality, with the stated goal to “kill the Indian and save the man.” ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, explores the role the Catholic Church played in creating U.S. policy toward Native people and takes us to the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Under pressure from the community, the school has launched a truth and healing program and is helping to reintroduce traditional culture to its students. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Next, Pember visits 89-year-old boarding school survivor Basil Brave Heart, who was sent to the Red Cloud School in the 1930s. He vividly remembers being traumatized by the experience and says many of his schoolmates suffered for the rest of their lives. We also hear from Dr. Donald Warne from Johns Hopkins University, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe who studies how the trauma of boarding schools is passed down through the generations.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>We close with what is perhaps the most sensitive part of the Red Cloud School’s search for the truth about its past: the hunt for students who may have died at the school and were buried in unmarked graves. The school has brought in ground-penetrating radar to examine selected parts of the campus, but for some residents, that effort is falling short. They want the entire campus scanned for potential graves. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealnews.org/weekly\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
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"title": "The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion",
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"content": "\n \u003cp>When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually \u003cem>cause\u003c/em> abortions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>One prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control pills to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient. Reveal’s Amy Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>Tens of millions of Americans use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy and regulate their health. And many have well-founded complaints about side effects, from nausea to depression – not to mention well-justified anger about how the medical establishment often pooh-poohs those concerns. Anti-abortion and religious activists have jumped into the fray, urging people to reject hormonal birth control as “toxic” and promoting non-hormonal “fertility awareness” methods – a movement they’re trying to rebrand as “green sex.” Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explains how secular wellness influencers such as Jolene Brighten, who sells a $300 birth control “hormone reset,” are having their messages adopted by anti-abortion influencers, many of them with deep ties to Catholic institutions.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cp>The end of Roe triggered a Missouri law that immediately banned almost all abortions. Many were shocked when a major health care provider in the state announced it would also no longer offer emergency contraception pills – Plan B – because of a false belief that it could cause an abortion. While the health system soon reversed its policy, it wasn’t the first time Missouri policymakers have been roiled by the myth that emergency contraception can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting and cause an abortion. Reveal senior reporter and producer Katharine Mieszkowski tracks how lawmakers in the state have been confronting this misinformation campaign and looks to the future of how conservatives are aiming to use birth control as their new wedge issue.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Support Reveal’s journalism at \u003ca href=\"https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=cir&amount=15&installmentPeriod=monthly&utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=7015d000001wAmaAAE\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/donatenow\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org?utm_source=reveal-podcast&utm_medium=partner-website&utm_campaign=membership_2022_podcastdescription&utm_content=&utm_term=&campaign=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Revealnews.org/newsletter\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cp>\u003cem>Connect with us on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsReveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/revealnews/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n ",
"excerpt": "When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down in June, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually cause abortions.\nOne prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants contraceptives like IUDs and birth control