Throughline
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You can’t fully understand the moment we’re living in without knowing where we’ve been. On every episode of NPR’s Throughline, we take a story from the news and go back in time to where it started.
Recent episodes
- Is the death penalty cruel and unusual?
- Why does everything get a standing ovation now?
- Four Seasons of Ceasefire in Gaza
- How To Avoid The End of the World
- Forty years of what if
- Democratic Socialism. Hope or Hopeless?
- How two swing states changed American voting
- How baseball got its beat
- Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?
- The school report that changed public education