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
- The Chinafication of Walmart
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- Route 66 and the quest to connect America
- How wheelchairs, a river, and a spaceship challenged the status quo
- The ongoing battle over asylum in America
- American history through song
- The story of July 4th is messier than you remember
- The genius and murkiness of the Constitution
- From Hormuz to Suez: the chokepoints of global power
- Prosperity gospel and the American dream