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- Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in the conviction of her husband, Russ, but he insisted he did not kill her. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
- Delves into Joran van der Sloot's lifelong pattern of violence and pathological lying through rare interviews and new insights years after he brutally murdered American Natalee Holloway and Peruvian Stephany Flores.
- Shere Hite's bestselling book The Hite Report liberated female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked the American establishment and conversations about gender and sexuality.
- The chilling story of one of the world's most notorious serial killers told through the words of Gacy himself, those who were forever changed by his unspeakable deeds and those who believe that the full truth remains concealed to this day.
- When the smart money was betting GameStop would go under, an army of irreverent traders tried to take Wall Street down instead. Diamond Hands is their story. This is the legend of the subreddit/WallStreetBets.
- Exploring how one man's brilliance, hubris and relentless drive changed the nature of war forever.
- Focuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods. Choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
- In "Leguizamo Does America," John Leguizamo travels across the country to bring viewers inside America's thriving Latino communities - all with his characteristic edge, energy, and wit. From San Juan to East L.A. with some surprising stops in between, Leguizamo will celebrate the history, culture, food, and other contributions of Latinx people shaping America, from young actors sharing their heartfelt stories at a Washington, D.C. Latino theater, to the immigrants who transformed the city of Chicago and the indigenous people of Puerto Rico who invented barbecue. It's part politics, part road trip, and part history lesson, all wrapped in a vintage Leguizamo adventure, showcasing the fastest-growing demographic in the nation.
- Revisits the story of Terri Schiavo, a deeply personal decade-long saga that captivated the country and forced Americans to reckon with profound issues at the intersection of faith and politics that reverberate to this day.
- Through personal video diaries and dance, three teens Amelia, Dedra, and Teylar navigate identity, gender norms, and realize dreams of college, medicine or business.
- TV SeriesJohn Wayne Gacy explores lives of victims while exposing systemic failures that fueled his murders.
- In the new four-part E. series Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture, the contributions of Black Americans in television, movies, sports, and film are documented. The special event will cover all genres of pop culture and entertainment - celebrating music from the gospel roots of Mahalia Jackson to the Motown sound, the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, Black culture's indisputable impact on fashion, television trailblazers from Diahann Carroll to Oprah Winfrey, sports legends like Sugar Ray Leonard and Laila Ali, the evolution of Black films and the pivotal talents that paved the way - all creating a cultural legacy that set the tone.
- Documentary collects accounts of 9/11, recorded in the months after the attacks, and present-day testimonials from the same eyewitnesses.
- A docuseries focusing on America's complicated relationship with race through the lense of the residents of Teaneck, N.J.
- Tells the story of a man convicted of murder, a journalist, and the letter that changed both of their lives.
- TV Mini SeriesFour part documentary series about the generations. Gen Z explores the issues shaping this young generation - those born between 1997-2012. The show looks at the impact of the Parkland school shooting and the activism that came out of it all, defining this generation. It also examines the diversity of this generation - 1 in 5 Gen Z identify as LGBTQ+ and the backlash that has come with it. The show explores the effects of the #MeToo movement, BLM, cancel culture, the legalization of weed, Operation Varsity Blues, the overturning of Roe v Wade, the pandemic and mental health and how quickly people can launch their careers online.
- The latest developments on the impeachment of President Donald Trump. What's happening in Washington and why it matters for the nation. Powered by NBC News journalists. Hosted by Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent.
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- How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in history? Why is this all happening? This series try to answer these questions. Writers, experts and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it down.
- A young man's disappearance leads police to Gacy's home, where his horrifying crimes are discovered.
- An examination of Gacy's past reveals evidence that authorities knew he was a sexual predator.
- Gacy details his murders in a chilling confession as police uncover the scope of his crimes.
- The jury must decide between sending Gacy to a psychiatric facility or condemning him to a death sentence.
- A quick verdict doesn't end the story; the specter of more victims has investigators digging again.
- Questions about the Gacy case linger 40 years later, as does the fallout from his terrible crimes.
- Meet Pam Hupp, Betsy Faria's close friend and the last person to see her alive after dropping Betsy off at home on the night of her murder. Betsy's husband, Russ Faria, makes a 9-1-1 distraught call.
- Pam becomes a source of support not just for Betsy's family, but for law enforcement and District Attorney Leah Askey as they build their case. Russ hires Joel Schwartz, a top criminal defense attorney from St. Louis.
- Pam starts to lose control as Russ' new trial looms--facing money troubles, a relentless "Dateline" producer and difficulty caring for her sick mother. Askey realizes Pam isn't the star witness she thought. Joel makes a breakthrough.
- Pam gets her 15 minutes of fame when D.A. Askey calls her to the stand as a witness for the prosecution even as Joel tries to poke holes in the case against Russ.
- 2018– 35mPodcast EpisodeIn June 2018 Donald Trump posed with then Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou at a ground breaking ceremony for the new Foxconn facility in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. Touted as "the eighth wonder of the world" by the president, the multi-billion dollar deal was supposed to produce a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing complex, thousands of jobs, and the beginning of a new well-paying manufacturing sector in the American Midwest. Over two years later, almost none of that has happened. Instead of thousands of new jobs and a promising facility, Wisconsin looks to have been left holding the bag on a deal that was over promised and under delivered. This week, investigations editor and feature writer at The Verge, Josh Dzieza, joins to talk about what happened with the Wisconsin-Foxconn deal and why its promise was doomed to fail.
- 2018– 57mPodcast EpisodeWhat can bourbon teach about legacy, nostalgia, and consumer trends? Pappy Van Winkle is some of the most coveted bourbon in the world, but it took three generations of labor and loss to reach this pinnacle. Author Wright Thompson spent years with the third generation Van Winkle, who brought the family business back from the brink, studying the careful craftsmanship and rich history that goes into every barrel they produce. With a drink so inextricably tied to a distinct time and place, Wright found an opportunity to interrogate the mythology of the South, the seduction of nostalgia, and what it means to make things that last.
- 2018– 1h 1mPodcast EpisodeOne day after the attack on the Capitol, Chris Hayes and author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat down to process what we witnessed as a nation and what it reveals about the fragility of American democracy.
- 2018– 53mPodcast EpisodeChris has a lot to get to with legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher this week: the deplatforming of President Trump, the conservative obsession with Section 230 (what even is Section 230), why Parler went dark (what even is Parler), and why some Republicans would rather complain about losing Twitter followers than address the deadly attack on the Capitol.
- 2018– 54mPodcast EpisodeFor 17 years, the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, sat dormant. Then, with only six months left in his Presidency, Donald Trump and AG Bill Barr oversaw an unprecedented 13 executions. Of those 13, three took place during his final week in office. So why, with one foot out the door, did the Trump administration take extraordinary measures to rush through a historic slate of executions? This has been the center of Intercept Senior Reporter Liliana Segura's work for a long time. One of the best people on this beat, Segura spent months traveling to Terre Haute over and over again as the spree unfolded. So when it came to learning more about what just happened, who these people were, and what it means for the death penalty more broadly, we knew who to turn to.
- 2018– 1hPodcast EpisodeCome on a journey to learn about the little-known origins of Sen. Mitch McConnell's beloved obstruction tactic. Turns out, the country owe the filibuster to the efforts of John C. Calhoun, a virulent racist and spiritual father of the Confederacy, as he tried to protect the power of a minority of Senators who represented slave states. So how did the filibuster go from a tool of the South, to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", to today, where a single email is enough to block legislation? That's right , a single email. With prophetic-like timing, Senate insider Adam Jentleson just released a new book examining the history of the filibuster, making the case that it's partially responsible for turning the Senate into one of the greatest threats to democracy.
- 2018– 54mPodcast EpisodeRoughly 19 million acres of eastern Oklahoma hung in the balance in the summer of 2020. Before the Supreme Court was a case asking a question crucial to Native land rights - does the United States still honor the treaties signed in the 1800s promising that land to indigenous tribes? And in a landmark 5-4 decision penned by conservative justice Neil Gorsuch, the court ruled that yes, that land remains reservation land. It was a huge win - but what does it mean? Joining the show this week is Rebecca Nagle, a member of the Cherokee tribe and host of a phenomenal podcast titled "This Land", detailing the long fight leading up to this moment.
- 2018– 48mPodcast EpisodeA short while ago, you may have seen posts crossing your social media feeds from celebrities and activists like Rihanna or Greta Thunberg showing support for farmers in India. Right now, one of the world's largest protest movements is taking place across India. Millions of farmers are demonstrating against a set of policy proposals passed by Narendra Modi and his government. In turn, Modi has tried to quash the movement, going so far as attempting to force Twitter to silence any critical voices. This week, journalist and Washington Post columnist, Rana Ayyub, joins to discuss the protest movement and how Modi's reaction to it fits his pattern of illiberalism and nationalism that marches India away from democracy.
- 2018– 57mPodcast EpisodeThis conversation starts at Grid Talk 101 (what even is an energy grid) and ends at the fragility of modern life. That can only mean one thing - David Roberts is back. An energy and climate journalist, Roberts explains that we have every reason to believe that we'll see an increase in the freak weather events like the one that wrought havoc on Texas. And as we witnessed firsthand, one failure, one breakdown in a system, can have a deadly domino effect resulting in some truly dystopic conditions in a matter of days. So how can we avoid another Texas-sized meltdown? And what exactly went wrong in the first place?
- 2018– 51mPodcast EpisodeCritically acclaimed playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith crafts groundbreaking art at the intersection of journalism and theater. Her explosive one-woman plays centered on the Los Angeles riots and the Crown Heights riots, "Twilight: Los Angeles" and "Fires in the Mirror" respectively, took shape from hundreds of interviews conducted by Smith herself. Her newest piece, "Notes From the Field" had her traveling everywhere from Finland to the Yurok Tribe of Northern California, compiling 250 conversations about the school-to-prison pipeline. Her work requires a masterful command of storytelling, empathy, and the art of the interview, and she joins this week to describe how those pieces came together in her celebrated career.
- 2018– 1h 4mPodcast EpisodeIt was just about this time a year ago when everyone's lives completely changed. Businesses went dark, schools went remote, we separated ourselves and hit pause on daily life in order to slow the spread of a once in a century pandemic. It is a rare event that has been completely inescapable and that we have all had to deal with to the best of our abilities. This week New York Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, joins to talk about her own year and discuss the frustrations felt, the choices made, and the lessons and reflections gleaned from a year of COVID.
- 2018– 54mPodcast EpisodeWhat happens when you raise the minimum wage? The almost decade long push for a federal 15$ minimum wage made new noise in the last few weeks when Democrats tried to include it in the American Relief Act. Although this new push failed, the policy remains incredibly popular even though there are even some Democrats who are opposed. So, what are the real world consequences of a raised minimum wage, and what are its impacts on the market and labor? This week professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Arin Dube, joins to give an economist's view of the minimum wage and the revolution in the thinking behind it.
- 2018– 57mPodcast EpisodeAmazon puts just about everything you might need one click away and over the last year, people have been turning to the tech giant more than ever. But all that frictionless efficiency comes at huge social costs. In his new book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America", ProPublica Reporter Alec MacGillis investigates Amazon's impact on the deepening economic divide in towns and cities across the country.
- 2018– 1h 4mPodcast EpisodeOver the past few years a broader conversation around speech has intensified in the United States. It is a conversation about speech, taboo, social justice, power and hierarchy, penalty about what things people can or can't say, should or shouldn't say in what environments, and what censure should attach to that kind of speech. It's an incredibly thorny conversation to have, filled with exhaustively overused terms like "cancel culture", but it is not an unimportant one. This week scholar and linguist, John McWhorter, joins to discuss our discourse around speech and debate where we as a society should set our boundaries.
- 2018– 57mPodcast EpisodeWhat happens in your body after you get a vaccine? The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines feels like the first positive mile marker in the pandemic but folks have a lot of questions - How were they developed? How do they work? Is there anything we should worry about? Dr. Peter Hotez has been a leading voice over the last year, lending his expertise in global health and vaccine development during some of the most crucial moments of the pandemic. Now, he's here to address our biggest questions about what he calls "the most powerful technology humankind has ever invented".
- 2018– 49mPodcast EpisodeWikipedia is not like a lot of our current internet. It's not like sites like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that mines its users' attention and tries to capture it through push notifications and algorithms in order to maximize profits. Wikipedia is a vestige of an earlier de-commodified, open sourced internet. It's an amazing well of knowledge built from decentralized human collaboration that anyone with an internet connection can freely access. It is an incredible institution where users can read and learn about almost anything. This week Katherine Maher, the departing CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, joins to talk about the history of Wikipedia, its organization, and its ability to endure amidst a changing internet.
- 2018– 52mPodcast EpisodeRacial hierarchy in America is deeply embedded in big structural institutions. From housing to criminal justice to education, there's decades of scholarly work and research dissecting the lasting legacies of policies that disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. Now, tax law scholar Dorothy A. Brown has a mind-blowing new book about race and tax, uncovering the ways the tax code is constructed to build white wealth while impoverishing black Americans. In a conversation that is engaging, enlightening, and even laugh out loud funny (seriously), Brown lays out the culmination of her life's work and explains why now could be the time to fix the system.
- 2018– 53mPodcast EpisodeHow does bitcoin work? Where did it come from, why does it exist, and will it ever be used for everyday purchases? Far from some passing fad, bitcoin has been around for more than a decade now and shows no signs of going anywhere. We figured it was long overdue to understand the most well-known cryptocurrency and the problem it is trying to solve. Lucky for us, Bloomberg editor Joe Weisenthal came prepared.
- 2018– 44mPodcast EpisodeBack in 2019, a panel of health experts declared that of every country in the whole world, the United States was the most prepared for handling a pandemic. So what went wrong? Acclaimed author Michael Lewis is unparalleled in unearthing the most compelling characters to tell an unexpected story - it's no wonder he's had multiple books turned into movies (The Blind Side, Moneyball, The Big Short). Now, Lewis has done it again with his latest book, "The Premonition", following the people who spent years preparing for a pandemic only to be ignored at the most crucial juncture - to devastating results.
- 2018– 49mPodcast EpisodeChina is a country with billions of people and a history thousands of years old. For as large and influential as it is, Americans do not consume Chinese cultural exports in the same way that China does in the reverse. Chinese made movies are not screened in most theaters across the United States. We do not watch Chinese sitcoms dubbed. While China and other countries regularly consume American culture that show peaks of what life is like in United States, we don't have the same regular access to those windows of everyday China. So, what is life like in China? This week journalist and author Te-Ping Chen joins to talk about her time as a student and journalist in China and her new book of short stories In the "Land of Big Numbers".
- 2018– 53mPodcast EpisodeWhat causes violent crime rates to rise? It probably won't surprise you to learn that 2020 was the deadliest year in American history but what you may not know is that 2020 also saw a staggering rise in homicides and violent crime. It's impossible to separate the two - the indefinite closure of crucial community spaces and abrupt economic upheaval were felt nationwide but hit hardest in areas most vulnerable to increased interpersonal violence. To understand what happened last year, it's worth looking back at the last major wave of violence in the United States - what caused the spike then and what caused it to go down? Sociologist Patrick Sharkey's book, "Uneasy Peace", lays out the most successful strategies cities used to decrease violent crime and joins to lend his expertise on what we got right - and what we're getting wrong.