Throughline

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Latest episode: Thu Apr 25 2024

The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

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Apr25
The Ghost in Your Phone (Throwback)
51mins
Apr18
Ralph Nader, Consumer Crusader
47mins
Apr11
The 14th Amendment
49mins
Apr4
The Land of the Fee (Throwback)
45mins
Mar28
A History of Hezbollah
49mins
Mar21
The Great Textbook War
47mins
Mar19
Radiolab: Worst. Year. Ever
38mins
Mar14
A Symphony of Resistance (Throwback)
55mins
Mar7
The Rise of the Right Wing in Israel
53mins
Feb29
The Right to An Attorney
50mins
Feb22
Dance Yourself Free (Throwback)
50mins
Feb15
Love, Throughline
53mins
Feb8
The Scent of History
51mins
Feb1
James Baldwin's Shadow (Throwback)
44mins
Jan30
Bonus: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop
49mins
Jan25
The Man Who Cured Aging
49mins
Jan18
The Right to Bear Arms
51mins
Jan11
When Things Fall Apart (Throwback)
49mins
Jan4
The Nostalgia Bone (2021)
56mins
Dec28
Editing Reality (2023)
52mins
Dec21
Apology: The Way Back (2023)
52mins
Dec14
Dare to Dissent
50mins
Dec7
The Lord Of Misrule
49mins
Nov30
A.D.A. Now! (2020)
58mins
Nov23
How U.S. Unions Took Flight
47mins
Nov16
A History of Hamas
51mins
Nov9
Grenada: Nobody's Backyard (2021)
57mins
Nov2
The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket
49mins
Oct26
The Three Faces of Ataturk
53mins
Oct19
The Dance of the Dead (2021)
50mins
Oct12
The Contradictions of Abraham Lincoln
49mins
Oct5
Two Miles Down The Road
55mins
Sep28
Tenochtitlán: A Retelling of the Conquest (2021)
52mins
Sep21
David v Goliath
51mins
Sep14
A Tale of Two Tribal Nations
51mins
Sep7
Silicon Island (2022)
48mins
Aug31
How Korean Culture Went Global (2022)
48mins
Aug24
By Accident of Birth (2022)
58mins
Aug17
The Characters That Built China (2022)
49mins
Aug10
The Lavender Scare
51mins
Aug3
Getting to Sesame Street (2022)
49mins
Jul27
The Hidden War
52mins
Jul20
All Wars Are Fought Twice (2022)
47mins
Jul13
No Bad Ideas?
51mins
Jul6
The Legacy of Henry Kissinger
49mins
Jun29
After Roe: A New Battlefield (2022)
52mins
Jun22
The Labor Of Love
52mins
Jun15
Affirmative Action
49mins
Jun8
Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade (2022)
52mins
Jun1
The Ghost in Your Phone
52mins
May25
The Freedom of Speech
49mins
May18
History Is Over (2021)
50mins
May11
Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines
52mins
May4
What's Your Worth?
49mins
Apr27
Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico (2022)
50mins
Apr20
The Way Back
52mins
Apr13
Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes
50mins
Apr6
Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon (2022)
50mins
Apr4
Throughline Presents: Louder Than A Riot
56mins
Mar30
The Mystery of Inflation (2022)
49mins
Mar23
Everyone Everywhere All At Once
49mins
Mar16
Meltdown (2020)
51mins
Mar9
A More Perfect Human
52mins
Mar2
Dance Yourself Free
50mins
Feb23
Of Rats and Men (2022)
51mins
Feb16
Throughline Presents: White Lies
46mins
Feb9
The Whiteness Myth
50mins
Feb2
The Real Black Panthers (2021)
51mins
Jan26
When Things Fall Apart
50mins
Jan19
Extremist Futures
48mins
Jan12
Do Not Pass Go (2022)
50mins
Jan9
Nancy Pelosi (2019)
23mins
Jan5
The Monster of We (2021)
58mins
Dec29
The New Gilded Age (2022)
50mins
Dec22
God Wants You To Be Rich (2021)
48mins
Dec15
Road to Partition
52mins
Dec8
400 Years of Sweetness
52mins
Dec1
The Nostalgia Bone (2021)
56mins
Nov26
La Última Copa: El sueño del pibe
41mins
Nov24
The Last Cup: The Kid's Dream
41mins
Nov17
Qatar's World Cup
51mins
Nov10
Dreams, Creatures, and Visions
48mins
Nov3
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
62mins
Oct27
The State of Disunion
48mins
Oct20
The Woman Question
49mins
Oct13
The Dance of the Dead (2021)
49mins
Oct6
Silicon Island
46mins
Sep29
Editing Reality
51mins
Sep22
Five Fingers Crush the Land (2021)
55mins
Sep15
Getting to Sesame Street
49mins
Sep8
How Korean Culture Went Global
47mins
Sep1
American Socialist (2020)
61mins
Aug25
Drone Wars (2021)
60mins
Aug18
Afghanistan: The Rise of the Taliban (2021)
54mins
Aug11
Afghanistan: The Center of the World (2021)
55mins
Aug4
The Mystery of Inflation
49mins
Jul28
Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have (2021)
49mins
Jul21
Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon
50mins
Jul14
The Long Hot Summer (2020)
41mins
Jul7
Throughline Presents: School Colors
51mins
Jun30
Do Not Pass Go
50mins
Jun23
The Evangelical Vote (2019)
50mins
Jun16
After Roe: A New Battlefield
52mins
Jun9
By Accident of Birth
58mins
Jun2
The Modern White Power Movement (2020)
47mins
May26
The Characters That Built China
48mins
May19
Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade
52mins
May17
Bonus: The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History
49mins
May12
The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)
42mins
May5
Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico
50mins
Apr28
The New Gilded Age
49mins
Apr21
Force of Nature (2021)
48mins
Apr14
The Everlasting Problem (2020)
54mins
Apr7
Capitalism: What Makes Us Free? (2021)
50mins
Mar31
The Land of the Fee (2021)
44mins
Mar24
All Wars Are Fought Twice
48mins
Mar17
Our Own People (2021)
51mins
Mar10
Ukraine's Dangerous Independence
43mins
Mar3
Of Rats and Men
51mins
Feb24
There Are No Utopias
49mins
Feb17
Marcus Garvey: Pan-Africanist (2021)
59mins
Feb10
Pirates of the Senate
52mins
Feb3
A Story Of Us?
46mins
Jan27
Russia's Longest Leader: Vladimir Putin (2019)
33mins
Jan25
Throughline Sleeps
30mins
Jan20
The Way We Dream
51mins
Jan13
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021)
70mins
Jan6
The Anatomy of Autocracy: Timothy Snyder (2021)
34mins
Dec30
The Electrical Grid (2020)
42mins
Dec28
Bonus: On Our Watch
47mins
Dec23
American Socialist (2020)
64mins
Dec16
The Monster of We
60mins
Dec9
History Is Over
53mins
Dec2
A Symphony of Resistance (2021)
57mins
Nov25
Fighting Fires and Family Secrets
40mins
Nov18
Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have
50mins
Nov11
Aftermath (2020)
54mins
Nov9
Bonus: The Deep History of Dune
44mins
Nov4
Drone Wars
61mins
Oct28
The Dance of the Dead
50mins
Oct21
The Stars (2020)
57mins
Oct14
The Nostalgia Bone
57mins
Oct7
Tenochtitlan: A Retelling of The Conquest
52mins
Oct5
Bonus: Soul Train
34mins
Sep30
The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)
43mins
Sep28
Bonus: We're Not Broken
23mins
Sep23
The Supreme Court (2020)
58mins
Sep16
Afghanistan: The Rise of the Taliban
53mins
Sep9
Afghanistan: The Center of the World
54mins
Sep2
The Aftermath of Collapse: Bronze Age Edition (2021)
55mins
Aug26
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)
65mins
Aug19
El Libertador and Venezuela's Rise and Fall (2019)
54mins
Aug12
Lives of the Great Depression (2020)
47mins
Aug5
Stories of How We Cope With Chaos (2021)
63mins
Jul29
Grenada: Nobody's Backyard
58mins
Jul22
Olympics: Behind The Five Rings
41mins
Jul20
Home/Front: Marla's War
35mins
Jul15
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
62mins
Jul12
Bonus: Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?
28mins
Jul8
Capitalism: God Wants You To Be Rich
50mins
Jul1
Capitalism: What Makes Us Free?
52mins
Jun29
Bonus: The Vanishing of Harry Pace
73mins
Jun24
Capitalism: What Is It?
56mins
Jun17
Before Stonewall (2019)
40mins
Jun10
Who is NPR (For)?
36mins
Jun3
The Supreme Court
58mins
May28
Palestine
54mins
May20
A Symphony of Resistance
56mins
May13
Five Fingers Crush The Land
56mins
May6
Operation Nemesis
51mins
Apr29
James Baldwin's Shadow
44mins
Apr22
Force of Nature
50mins
Apr15
The Real Black Panthers
56mins
Apr8
Policing in America
65mins
Apr1
Our Own People
52mins
Mar25
The Land of the Fee
49mins
Mar18
Chaos
62mins
Mar11
N95
40mins
Mar4
Levittown: Where the Good Life Begins
44mins
Feb25
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington
69mins
Feb18
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction
66mins
Feb11
Marcus Garvey: Pan-Africanist
63mins
Feb7
The Lasting Power Of Whitney Houston's National Anthem
23mins
Feb4
What Happened After Civilization Collapsed
56mins
Jan28
The Anatomy Of Autocracy: Masha Gessen
43mins
Jan21
The Anatomy of Autocracy: Timothy Snyder
38mins
Jan14
Impeachment
19mins
Jan7
Outside/In: Everybody Knows Somebody
57mins
Dec31
Outside/In: War of the Worlds
37mins
Dec24
Outside/In: The Dark Side Of The Moon
41mins
Dec17
Outside/In: Rules of Engagement
51mins
Dec10
Supreme
60mins
Dec3
The Modern White Power Movement
49mins
Nov26
The Spotted Owl
33mins
Nov19
The Invention of Race
40mins
Nov16
BONUS: Louder Than A Riot
49mins
Nov12
The Shadows of the Constitution
44mins
Nov5
Bush v. Gore and Why It Matters in 2020
29mins
Oct29
The Most Sacred Right
63mins
Oct22
How We Vote
58mins
Oct15
The Electoral College
57mins
Oct8
(mis)Representative Democracy, A New Series From Throughline
1min
Oct8
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
33mins
Oct1
The Everlasting Problem
54mins
Sep24
The Evangelical Vote
62mins
Sep17
James Baldwin's Fire
45mins
Sep10
The Postal Service
28mins
Sep3
Reframing History: Mass Incarceration
48mins
Aug27
Reframing History: Bananas
56mins
Aug20
Reframing History: The Commentator
30mins
Aug13
Reframing History: The Litter Myth
32mins
Aug6
America's Caste System
40mins
Jul30
A.D.A. Now!
61mins
Jul23
Lives Of The Great Depression
46mins
Jul16
Borinquén
65mins
Jul9
The Long Hot Summer
41mins
Jul2
Mecca Under Siege
43mins
Jun25
There's Something About Mary
40mins
Jun18
Why 2020 Isn't Quite 1968
27mins
Jun11
Presidential Power
51mins
Jun4
American Police
62mins
May28
Hong Kong
43mins
May21
Conspiracy
41mins
May14
The Mask
39mins
May7
Endless War
34mins
Apr30
Meltdown
53mins
Apr23
Aftermath
53mins
Apr16
Buzzkill
33mins
Apr9
Throughline Presents: Code Switch
30mins
Apr2
A Race To Know
40mins
Mar26
1918 Flu
37mins
Mar19
American Socialist
61mins
Mar12
Savarkar And India
31mins
Mar5
Public Universal Friend
46mins
Feb27
The Invisible Border
31mins
Feb20
The Stars
57mins
Feb13
Becoming America
31mins
Feb6
She Got Next
60mins
Jan30
Vaccination
21mins
Jan23
Soleimani's Iran
46mins
Jan16
Everybody Knows Somebody
57mins
Jan9
There Will Be Bananas
55mins
Jan2
Fear of Technology
35mins
Dec26
Russia's Vladimir Putin
34mins
Dec19
Planned Obsolescence
33mins
Dec12
America's Opioid Epidemic
44mins
Dec5
The Electrical Grid
42mins
Nov28
Conspiracy Theories
42mins
Nov21
A Year Of Wonders
39mins
Nov14
The Siege of Mecca
42mins
Nov9
Throughline Presents: Short Wave
25mins
Nov7
No Friend But The Mountains
42mins
Oct31
ZOMBIES
42mins
Oct24
The Dark Side Of The Moon
39mins
Oct17
A Borrowed Time
42mins
Oct10
The Commentator
29mins
Oct3
High Crimes And Misdemeanors
17mins
Sep26
American Exile
53mins
Sep19
Puerto Rico
64mins
Sep12
Three Chords And The Truth
31mins
Sep5
The Litter Myth
35mins
Aug29
On The Shoulders Of Giants
38mins
Aug22
Strange Fruit
30mins
Aug15
Mass Incarceration
47mins
Aug8
Scorched Earth
29mins
Aug1
Huey Long Vs. The Media
30mins
Jul25
Milliken v. Bradley
35mins
Jul18
Rules Of Engagement
48mins
Jul11
Four Days In August
36mins
Jul4
American Anthem
26mins
Jun27
Before Stonewall
38mins
Jun20
The X On The Map
39mins
Jun13
Apocalypse Now
54mins
Jun6
Mitch McConnell
32mins
May30
Savarkar's India
33mins
May23
A Dream Of Modern China
45mins
May16
El Libertador
54mins
May9
White Nationalism
33mins
May2
Outbreak
21mins
Apr25
Resistance Is Futile
35mins
Apr18
War Of The Worlds
33mins
Apr11
Nancy Pelosi
23mins
Apr4
Opioids In America
42mins
Mar28
The Phoebus Cartel
32mins
Mar21
The Border
14mins
Mar14
The Moth
32mins
Mar7
American Shadows
41mins
Feb28
High Crimes And Misdemeanors
15mins
Feb21
The Forgotten War
33mins
Feb14
On the Shoulders of Giants
37mins
Feb7
Four Days in August
36mins
Jan30
Introducing Throughline
2mins