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A new Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary tells the story of 20 US doctors who have witnessed a systematic pattern of Palestinian children shot by the Israeli military.
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa discuss their Pulitzer Prize winning book, "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice."
Doctors say aggressive forms of prostate cancer are difficult to catch. How can we improve screening protocols to prevent late stage diagnoses and improve survival rates?
"Soda Science" takes us deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists shape research to meet industry needs.
The GOP budget bill combines $1 trillion in cuts to federal health and food programs with nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts, which mostly benefit high earners.
After Musk's rise to power in the US government, the State Department has repeatedly lobbied a West African country into giving business to Musk's satellite company.
Uncuffed's Greg Eskridge will discuss his work on the inside and outside. On July 23, 2024, he was released from San Quentin after serving 30 years and 25 days.
In her new book, "Outclassed," Professor Joan Williams says if liberals want to win, they must change the class dynamics driving US politics.
The same day the Trump administration welcomed a group of white South Africans to the US, they got rid of deportation protections for over 9,000 Afghan refugees.
As of early 2025, the United States had more than 5,000 data centers, according to industry reports, compared to around 1,000 just five years earlier.
According to a New York Times investigation, Kinney County, Texas, collected some $1.7 million in bail from migrants who were deported. The money was never returned.
At least 143 Palestinians have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday as the death toll passes 53,000.
A report from Senator Bernie Sanders found that Trump officials cut $2.7B in NIH funding in the first three months of 2025, including a 31 percent cut to cancer research.
A Trump administration budget proposal would end funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth in October. The Trevor Project says this line saves lives.
Without renewed funding from the state, the California Warm Line could be shut down on July 1. Since 2019, it has responded to over 500,000 calls, texts, and chats.
Native American scholars discuss how our history can help us make sense of the current political moment. What can our past tell us about what's to come?
We discuss the mineral agreement between the US and Ukraine, and find out why bird populations in North America are declining in regions where they were most abundant.
We discuss The DOGE Impact Tracker, a new project from Capital & Main, a The New York Times investigation exposing the Trump family's expanding global crypto business.
As the celebrated festival was underway, organizers learned that a $20,000 NEA grant would be immediately cancelled. "Trump will not stop us," said director Andrew Wood.
Democracy Forward has filed 60 legal actions and launched 82 investigations under the current Trump administration. They say their work is just beginning.
Dr. Nicholas Rosenlicht says the mental health care system is functioning as intended, providing profits for corporations. What will it take to change it?
Activists and everyday people across the country are taking to the streets to resist Donald Trump and Elon Musk. How are they preparing for the many fights to come?
We speak with Craig McLean, a former top chief scientist at NOAA, about the importance of the nation's leading science agency and the fight to save it.
Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages, a Frontline documentary, examines how Indigenous communities in Alaska are fighting for survival in the face of climate change.
The administration is quietly putting America's children at risk by cutting funds for investigating child abuse, providing child care, and more, according to ProPublica.
People from all 50 states are taking to the streets to stand up against the Trump administration's attacks on human rights, the environment, and public services.
Murray Carpenter argues that the Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't know that Coke is one of the deadliest products in our diet.
Historian Christian Appy argues the resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in US. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
Between Trump's threats, tariffs, and Elon Musk, how's the overall EV industry doing?
We discuss the plight of undocumented immigrants facing deportation to El Salvador and the troubling case of a Tufts University PhD scholar in detention.
Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers.
This year's free online Food Revolution Summit features doctors who will share the latest science on transforming the health of our communities and the planet.
Last month, more than 1,900 scientists signed a letter warning the American public of the danger of the Trump administration's attacks on science.
The documentary Eating examines how our food choices affect the ocean and offers tangible solutions for eating in a more sustainable way.
In "Night Train to Odesa," Jen Stout delivers gripping accounts from the front lines of Russia's war on Ukraine. We also discuss media coverage Trump's tariff policies.
We discuss the climate crisis as the Trump administration dismantles and fires people at environmental agencies like NOAA. According to reports, the EPA is next.
Jennifer Levin was 32 when her dad was diagnosed with a rare illness. After struggling to find resources for millennial caregivers, she started the Caregiver Collective.
Churches receive tax-exempt status and little oversight from the IRS. What will enforcement look like with federal layoffs expected to cut up to 25% of the IRS workforce?
The documentary Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources.
On April 8, Trump issued an executive order targeting state-level climate policies, including cap-and-trade systems, and legal actions against fossil fuel companies.
In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and Musk's anti-DEI and intellectual purges.