President Trump's travel ban has been upheld by the Supreme Court. People from the seven banned countries can still come to the U.S. if they get a special "waiver." So far, few people have gotten them. We follow one Yemeni family as they try to get a waiver to escape a civil war. Supreme Court audio in this episode comes from Oyez.

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From 2011-2013, Kelly covered the war in Syria, where people would ask, "Why won't the U.S. intervene?" Then came a chemical attack, ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, that killed more than 1,000 people, and the U.S. almost intervened, but didn't. Now, a new book tells why.

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Police shoot the wrong guy. A collaboration with WNYC Studios and their podcast Aftereffect.

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This week, an episode from NPR's Rough Translation podcast.

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It's been a year and a half. Gary, Kyle, and Brad move on.

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We meet someone new. Derek.

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It's not all about Trump. Kyle makes progress. Gary has decisions to make. Brad makes a change.

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After the election. The price of a certain kind of coal goes up. People's lives start changing. Some think it's because of Trump.

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Kristina Durivage (@gelicia) described her path getting into making and hardware hacking as a complement to her day job working in front-end software.

Kristina’s portfolio.gelicia.com includes write-ups on her projects (TweetSkirt, Kitchen Playset Game) as well as links to her talks. Or you can skip to her github.com/gelicia repository.

Kristina has a chapter in the 10 LED Projects for Geeks book coming out from NoStarch Press.

Thank you to Patreon Embedded supporters for Kristina’s mic!

Elecia and Kristina both recommend the classic Robert Aspirin Myth Adventure books!

The "war on coal." Getting Appalachia wrong. Which side are you on? What it's like to live a decline.

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