Reveal
by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
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We Get It. You Don’t Trust Us.
We Get It. You Don’t Trust Us.
About this podcast
Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story. Learn more at revealnews.org/learn.
Episodes
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- We Get It. You Don’t Trust Us. · 50 minEvery week, a group of men in their late 60s meets at the Corner Cafe in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. One important reason for these meetups is to discuss what’s going on in…
- The Job Qualifications for Hegseth’s Military? Straight. White. Male. · 30 minMore To The Story: On Tuesday, House Republicans blocked a remarkable effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led by a lone GOP legislator and supported by Democrats…
- How a Soldier’s Beating Helped Desegregate the Military · 51 minIn 1946, a Black Army veteran was returning from World War II when a white police officer pulled him off a Greyhound bus and beat him blind. The details were fuzzy. No one was…
- Trump's No Good Very Bad Day · 27 minMore To The Story: A blue wave engulfed Republicans in this year’s midterm elections. Democrats throughout the country soundly defeated GOP candidates, giving them at least 54…
- Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Adviser Wants a Christian America · 51 minOn a brilliantly sunny day in May, Mother Jones national correspondent Kiera Butler found herself eating quiche in the cheerful breakfast nook of a home high above the rolling…
- Inside the Conservative Case for Voting Restrictions · 30 minMore To The Story: Ken Cuccinelli is a longtime fixture of the conservative movement. The former Virginia attorney general and former Trump official is known for his far-right…
- Why Are We Still Talking About Voting Rights in 2026? · 50 minIn the run-up to this year’s midterm elections, one of the defining campaign issues is the elections themselves. Ever since President Trump first urged red states to draw up new…
- Heather Cox Richardson on the Real Genius of America · 35 minMore To The Story: Heather Cox Richardson is one of today’s unlikeliest social media stars. The Boston College historian has been teaching and writing about 19th-century America…
- Jim Crow Returns...One Congressional District at a Time · 51 min2026 would have been a reelection year for Rep. Cleo Fields, who represents the majority-Black 6th Congressional District in Louisiana. But in April, the US Supreme Court handed…
- Voter Suppression Is Happening in the South. This Organizer Fights It. · 30 minMore To The Story: One of the defining issues heading into this year’s midterms is how redistricting has rapidly reshaped electoral maps across the country. When the Supreme…
- Stop the Steal Never Stopped · 51 minWhen the FBI showed up at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election records this past January, County Commissioner Dana Barrett thought…
- Trump Says Voter Fraud is Rampant. The Evidence Says Otherwise. · 41 minMore To The Story: If you’ve ever listened to President Trump talk about our elections, you might hear something like this: Voter fraud is rampant. Noncitizens are voting…
- America’s New Relationship With Israel…It’s Complicated · 51 minWhen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations last month, diplomats streamed for the exits. Three years after October 7, when much of the…
- Can a Democratic Socialist Win in Deep-Red Florida? · 26 minMore To The Story: Back in August, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon did something few outside the state saw coming: She won Florida's Democratic US Senate primary. Her victory sent…
- Introducing “The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power” · 43 minBefore her historic Speakership, even before she got to the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi worked for years outside the spotlight as an official in the California…
- The Art Trump Doesn't Want and the Artists Left Behind · 51 minLast year, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the US received an alarming message: Their federal grants had been canceled. The letters said their projects no…
- Loyalists Only, Please. Why Trump Surrounds Himself With True Believers · 33 minMore To The Story: President Donald Trump’s second term has often felt like an exercise in mass distraction. As soon as he’s directing people to pay attention to one issue like…
- Did My IUD Make My Depression Worse? · 51 minAfter Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years. Her experience made her…
- Russia Targeted Past US Elections. Will It Meddle in the Midterms? · 31 minMore To The Story: The 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House the first time was defined in many ways by the role of America’s longtime adversary Russia. Over the…
- The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug · 51 minIn 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into his own little chaotic…
- The Revolutionary Roots That Inspired Tupac Shakur · 39 minMore To The Story: Last month, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur. The verdict came 30 years after Tupac was killed…
- More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11 · 51 minWhen Mia Farina got seriously ill in 2014, she thought she had a bad case of pneumonia. But it turned out to be far worse: It was the start of chronic lung disease related to the…
- The Fight for America’s Future Is Happening in the South · 30 minMore To The Story: Tennessee Rep. Justin J. Pearson first caught national attention when he was expelled from the state’s House of Representatives after demonstrating in support…
- The Race Equation · 50 minIn medical school, Aaron Baugh, like most doctors in training, was taught that Black people have smaller lungs than white people. His professors explained that it came down to…
- The Cult and Corruption of Cryptocurrency · 31 minMore To The Story: Ben McKenzie might seem like an unlikely choice to launch an investigation into the complicated world of cryptocurrency. But the television actor known for…
- 40 Acres and a Lie Part 3 · 51 minThe loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has continued over decades. Today…
- Sen. Adam Schiff on Israel, Impeachment, and Post-Trump America · 33 minMore To The Story: Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back in 2020, the California Democrat was the…
- 40 Acres and a Lie Part 2 · 51 minSkidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly white residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks, and marsh grass alongside golf…
- Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health · 31 minMore To The Story: Lettuce contaminated with cyclospora. Cruise ship passengers contracting a deadly form of hantavirus. Legionnaires’ disease (yet again) in big cities. RFK Jr…
- 40 Acres and a Lie Part 1 · 50 minPatricia Bailey’s four-bedroom home sits high among the trees in lush Edisto Island, South Carolina. It’s a peaceful place where her body healed from multiple sclerosis. It’s…
- How Elon Musk Is Re-Engineering the World · 30 minMore To The Story: Boston University professor Quinn Slobodian discusses his book “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,” which he co-authored with Ben Tarnoff. They outline how…
- The Post-Roe Surprise: More Abortions · 51 minAccess to medication abortion in the years since Covid and the fall of Roe v. Wade has completely reshaped the abortion access landscape in America. “There's this irony that's…
- The Rapid Rise of Right-Wing Militias · 30 minMore To The Story: A photo went viral on Independence Day this year. It showed a Black woman on a Metro train in Washington, DC, surrounded by members of Patriot Front, a…
- ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Kids Are on Their Own. · 51 minLast fall, life for the Perez children was turned upside down. Their father, Romeo Sr., was picked up on his way to work and sent to immigration detention. A few months later…
- Staten Island v. New York City With Revisionist History · 37 minThis week, we’re bringing you a special episode from Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. Gladwell’s show recently…
- The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 2 · 50 minWhen the cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded, customers around the world lost access to their money. Founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. But the…
- The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy · 33 minMore To The Story: OpenAI and its revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and…
- The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1 · 51 minSam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, customers of the…
- The Secret Origins of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket · 30 minMore To The Story: Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration. Those…
- Why America at 250 Still Cannot Face Slavery · 51 minWhen Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of America’s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil War—had dozens of Confederate…
- Space, “Star Trek,” and Social Justice · 32 minMore To The Story: Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and ’90s, a daughter and granddaughter of social justice activists, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein fell in love with math and…
- Has America Lived Up to Its Founding Promise? · 37 minElizabeth Freeman was an enslaved person living in Massachusetts when the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years ago. The document’s famous words “all men are created…
- Trump’s Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power · 31 minThe second Trump administration has made tearing down parts of the federal government a priority. And some of those efforts have been literal. In October, President Donald Trump…
- The Beautiful Game Is More Unaffordable Than Ever · 50 minThe World Cup is here. For the first time, the tournament is happening in three countries at once: the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It’s bigger than ever, with more teams…
- Bryan Stevenson on Confronting America’s Legacy of Slavery · 31 minMore To The Story: When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of America’s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil War—had dozens…
- The Plague in the Shadows · 51 minDecades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed some 40 million people and continues to take lives today. But…
- Heather Cox Richardson on the Real Genius of America · 34 minMore To The Story: Heather Cox Richardson is one of today’s unlikeliest social media stars. The Boston College historian has been teaching and writing about 19th-century America…
- We Get It. You Don’t Trust Us. · 50 minEvery week, a group of men in their late 60s meets at the Corner Cafe in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. One important reason for these meetups is to discuss what’s going on in…
- The Revolutionary Roots That Inspired Tupac Shakur · 39 minMore To The Story: It’s impossible to overstate rapper Tupac Shakur’s influence on music and culture in the 1990s. One of the era’s bestselling musical artists, Tupac helped…
- Fortress Europe: The Fight for Refugees in Greece · 51 minIn 2015, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and repression were trying to reach safe havens in Europe. From his home in Norway, Tommy Olsen decided to travel to Greece…
