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Book Keeper
A former extremist returns to the stories that shaped her — to ask what's worth keeping.
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Book Keeper
A former extremist returns to the stories that shaped her — to ask what's worth keeping.
Megan Phelps-Roper was raised inside one of the most infamous religious communities in America. More than a decade after she left, and now a mother herself, she's returning to the Bible — not to reclaim belief, but to ask a harder question: What’s worth keeping?
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The Last Invention
Our Award Winning Series About AI
The AI revolution has begun — the product of a seventy year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as a fringe idea has now become one of the most powerful forces of the 21st century. This is the story of that journey: its rivalries, its competing visions of utopia and apocalypse, and the race to build what may be humanity’s last invention.
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Strange Bedfellows
A miniseries on how the LGBTQ coalition changed the country, then started to fall apart.
From the LGB-vs-T flashpoint to the inside-the-movement backlash, Strange Bedfellows reports from inside one of the most contentious arguments shaping American politics today.
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Propaganda of the Deed
Bombs, backlashes, and echoes in history.
A two-part series on the long shadow of 'propaganda of the deed' — the 19th-century anarchist idea that a violent act could speak for itself. Part one traces the term's history; part two reports from inside today's resistance movements to ask what's really changed.
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No, You Stole the Election!
The history of a surprisingly American claim — and where it's headed.
A three-part series tracing 'they stole it' as American political folklore. Part one digs into the surprisingly long history of the claim; part two unpacks the alleged mechanics; part three reports from inside the escalation we're living through now.
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You Can't Say That
After 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling,' where do things actually stand?
A two-part series on the state of public debate a year on from one of the most contested cultural arguments of the decade. We revisit Rowling's critics to ask what's changed, what hasn't, and how each of them now sees their own positions.
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Filthy Slime
"In street rap authenticity is more important that skill"
A two-part series on the trial of Young Thug, the use of rap lyrics in American court rooms, and what it means for the future of artists living in high crime neighborhoods.
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