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This episode originally was broadcast Oct. 5, 2019. Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool that combines DNA science with family tree research. Where will it take us – a crime-free world or a dark dystopia? Don’t miss out on ...

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01.18.2020 Catch a Killer With Your DNA (rebroadcast) This episode originally was broadcast Oct. 5, 2019. Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool that combines DNA science with family tree research. Where will it take us – a crime-free world or a dark dystopia? Don’t miss out on ...
01.11.2020 The lost homes of Detroit Entire blocks of Detroit look abandoned because people fell behind on property taxes and lost their homes. But hundreds of millions of dollars of that tax debt never should have been billed in the first place. Don’t miss out on ...
01.04.2020 The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks (rebroadcast) This episode was originally broadcast in May 2016. Back in 1971, a 22-year-old journalist named Robert Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He told him to go to Room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, ...
12.28.2019 Take No Prisoners (rebroadcast) This episode was originally broadcast July 28, 2018. In December 1944, Adolf Hitler surprised the Allies with a secret counterattack through the Ardennes forest, known today as the Battle of the Bulge. In the carnage that followed, there was one ...
12.21.2019 When Lighting the Voids An audio drama inspired by Reveal’s investigation into a deadly explosion at a Mississippi shipyard, produced by our partners at StoryWorks, a documentary theater company. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
12.14.2019 Think Globally, Report Locally A high number of high school sports concussions. A low number of arrests for sexual assault. Reveal’s Reporting Network digs in. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
12.07.2019 When Tasers Fail (rebroadcast) A Taser is supposed to help police resolve a situation without using their guns. But in police departments across America, Tasers aren’t always living up to their promise, sometimes with lethal results. Don’t miss out on the next big story. ...
11.30.2019 Building a Wall Out of Red Tape Who qualifies for a visa? How much does it cost to become a U.S. citizen? Stories about the invisible barriers immigrants come up against when trying to apply for legal status. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get ...
11.23.2019 Amazon: Behind the Smiles Shop. Click. And the next day, your purchase is on your doorstep. Amazon has changed the face of shopping, but at a surprisingly high cost to its workers. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming soon, we look at what’s ...
11.20.2019 Pushed out Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked because youth incarceration reform focuses so much on boys. Reporter Ko Bragg explains how the cycle begins and what researchers ...
11.16.2019 Development Arrested **How does a seventh grader end up in solitary confinement in an adult jail? Reporter Ko Bragg takes us to Mississippi to learn about a set of laws that automatically send kids into the adult legal system for certain crimes. ...
11.09.2019 The Secret List of Convicted Cops A reporter is threatened with prosecution, an officer outruns his past, and our host sits down with the president of the largest U.S. association of police officers to ask the question: When police officers misbehave, why does it stay secret? ...
11.02.2019 Pardon Me (Rebroadcast) As the House of Representatives continues its impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, we go back in time to the Nixon administration, when the threat of impeachment and a presidential pardon changed the course of history. We then examine the ...
10.26.2019 The Lynching of Thomas Finch In 1936, an unarmed black man was killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. We explore why the city doesn’t recognize the case as a lynching. Don’t miss out on the next ...
10.19.2019 Homewreckers After the housing bust, a group of men profited by destroying the American dream of homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families. On Reveal, we learn how these Homewreckers -- many of whom are close to President Donald Trump -- ...
10.12.2019 Losing ground (rebroadcast) In 1996, Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, purchased a farm with a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Twenty years later, the USDA foreclosed on the property and evicted him. Reveal investigates his claim that he was ...
10.05.2019 Catch a Killer With Your DNA Genetic genealogy is a powerful crime-solving tool that combines DNA science with family tree research. Where will it take us – a crime-free world or a dark dystopia? ** *Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly ...
09.28.2019 Commander-in-Tweet These days, a presidential tweet can dictate the news cycle for days on end. But is it driving us to distraction? Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
09.21.2019 America’s Drug War, Revealed (rebroadcast) How a baggie of crack cocaine packed with fear, distortion and misconceptions, and one presidential address in the 1980s, helped shape the war on drugs. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
09.14.2019 Scuttling Science Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
09.07.2019 The Right to Boycott (rebroadcast) “It is wrong to boycott Israel” is a bipartisan message. But is banning the boycott a violation of First Amendment rights? Also, the story of a man who is trying to boycott Israel while living under Israeli occupation. And the ...
08.31.2019 Farm Wars (Rebroadcast) The herbicide dicamba is causing a civil war in farm country. Plus, honeybee rustling in California’s almond groves. Lastly, sulfur and its link to asthma in children. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter ...
08.24.2019 Year of Return Four hundred years ago, English pirates brought enslaved Africans to America’s shores. We reflect on how the legacy of slavery has reverberated through the generations to the present. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal ...
08.17.2019 The Cost of School Choice Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter ...
08.10.2019 Bundyville Revealed **A bombing in rural Nevada you’ve probably never heard of. A plot to blow up a government building. Reveal teams up with the podcast series, Bundyville, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Longreads, to see what happened to rancher Cliven ...
08.03.2019 Harpooned by Facebook As smart devices become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the ...
07.27.2019 Lasting Impact (rebroadcast) In Oregon, the concussion protocols that were supposed to keep high school athletes safe end up falling short for a star quarterback. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
07.20.2019 In Harm’s Way The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know. Then, we revisit a story from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, looking at how Jesuit priests got away with ...
07.13.2019 Silencing Science (Rebroadcast) President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has downplayed the science of climate change and sought to silence scientists working for the federal government.* * Don’t miss out on the ...
07.06.2019 Pardon Me Presidential pardons grab the headlines each time Donald Trump grants clemency to a controversial person. We tell the untold story of a pardons system that is completely broken, leaving a backlog of 13,000 applications, and a pardon attorney’s office that’s ...
06.29.2019 The Military's Deadliest Helicopter (Rebroadcast) How did one helicopter become the deadliest aircraft in the US military? To find out, Reveal partners with Investigative Studios, the production arm of the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Don’t miss ...
06.22.2019 Cops on a Crime Spree (Rebroadcast) They belonged to an elite police task force charged with getting guns off Baltimore’s streets. Instead, the plainclothes cops roamed the city, robbing people on the street, breaking into homes to steal money and drugs, and planting evidence on their ...
06.15.2019 Hate is all around you In the second part of Reveal’s series about hate, we look at how racism and white supremacy are institutionalized in America. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
06.08.2019 Hate in the homeland This episode surveys the state of the hate movement in America, focusing on how hate groups are spreading their message and winning converts. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
06.01.2019 To the ends of the Earth We travel the globe, from bottom to top, to confront the growing threats from climate change.**** Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
05.25.2019 The City – Revealed (Rebroadcast) A giant, mysterious illegal dump in Chicago was part of a federal investigation that brought down a dozen corrupt politicians, but it left neighborhood residents angry and feeling used. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly ...
05.18.2019 The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care Residential care homes seem like the perfect place for Mom or Grandpa to live out their golden years, but their home-like facades are hiding rampant wage theft and exploitation of caregivers. Reveal’s Jen Gollan takes us into her investigation of ...
05.11.2019 When Tasers Fail A Taser is supposed to help police resolve a situation without using their guns. But in police departments across America, Tasers aren’t always living up to their promise, sometimes with lethal results. Don’t miss out on the next big story. ...
05.04.2019 Monumental Lies (Rebroadcast) Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” Plus, an artist finds herself in the middle of the creation ...
04.27.2019 America’s Drug War, Revealed How a baggie of crack cocaine packed with fear, distortion and misconceptions, and one presidential address in the 1980s, helped shape the war on drugs. * *Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
04.20.2019 Farm Wars The herbicide dicamba is causing a civil war in farm country. Plus, honeybee rustling in California’s almond groves. Lastly, sulfur and its link to asthma in children. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter ...
04.13.2019 Flood Thy Neighbor (Rebroadcast) Some people who live along the Mississippi River are willing to do anything to keep their homes and farms safe from flooding – even if it means inundating their own neighbors. This week, we team up with ProPublica to investigate ...
04.06.2019 Trans National Migration We meet an immigration judge who rejected nearly every asylum case that came before her, then follow a transgender woman as she tries to claim asylum. Finally, we go to Turkey, where young Afghan women are trying to leave their ...
04.04.2019 Captain Boycott Before there were boycotts, there was Captain Boycott. Meet the man who gave name to a new kind of protest. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
03.30.2019 The Right to Boycott “It is wrong to boycott Israel” is a bipartisan message. But is banning the boycott a violation of First Amendment rights? Also, the story of a man who is trying to boycott Israel while living under Israeli occupation. Don’t miss ...
03.23.2019 Behind Trump's Energy Dominance (Rebroadcast) Reveal received a secret recording of oil industry executives rejoicing over the “unprecedented access” they have to David Bernhardt, the No. 2 official at the Interior Department. President Donald Trump has nominated Bernhardt to the top slot at the department, ...
03.16.2019 Pizzagate: A Slice of Fake News (Rebroadcast) A journey into the world of right-wing Twitter trolls, pro-Trump political operatives and fake-news profiteers from St. Louis to Macedonia, to answer one big question: How did America become a post-truth country? Don’t miss out on the next big story. ...
03.09.2019 Bitter Custody A controversial theory about child abuse is swaying family court judges to award custody to parents accused of harming kids. We trace the origins of “parental alienation.” ** *Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal ...
03.02.2019 A Desperate Bargain Parents are forced to give up custody to get their children medical and psychological treatments. Also, a Trump administration practice forces parents to risk deportation in order to claim their kids from government shelters. Don’t miss out on the next ...
02.23.2019 The red line: Racial disparities in lending (Rebroadcast) It’s been 10 years since the great housing bust and lending is back for some Americans, but not for others. In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny loans to applicants of color than white ...

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Reveal episodes:

Catch a Killer With Your DNA (rebroadcast)

The lost homes of Detroit

The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks (rebroadcast)

Take No Prisoners (rebroadcast)

When Lighting the Voids

Think Globally, Report Locally

When Tasers Fail (rebroadcast)

Building a Wall Out of Red Tape

Amazon: Behind the Smiles

Pushed out

Development Arrested

The Secret List of Convicted Cops

Pardon Me (Rebroadcast)

The Lynching of Thomas Finch

Homewreckers

Losing ground (rebroadcast)

Catch a Killer With Your DNA

Commander-in-Tweet

America’s Drug War, Revealed (rebroadcast)

Scuttling Science

The Right to Boycott (rebroadcast)

Farm Wars (Rebroadcast)

Year of Return

The Cost of School Choice

Bundyville Revealed

Harpooned by Facebook

Lasting Impact (rebroadcast)

In Harm’s Way

Silencing Science (Rebroadcast)

Pardon Me

The Military's Deadliest Helicopter (Rebroadcast)

Cops on a Crime Spree (Rebroadcast)

Hate is all around you

Hate in the homeland

To the ends of the Earth

The City – Revealed (Rebroadcast)

The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care

When Tasers Fail

Monumental Lies (Rebroadcast)

America’s Drug War, Revealed

Farm Wars

Flood Thy Neighbor (Rebroadcast)

Trans National Migration

Captain Boycott

The Right to Boycott

Behind Trump's Energy Dominance (Rebroadcast)

Pizzagate: A Slice of Fake News (Rebroadcast)

Bitter Custody

A Desperate Bargain

The red line: Racial disparities in lending (Rebroadcast)

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