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Seen from behind, a woman walks along a mulched path through a grassy area while holding hands with her toddler daughter. A greenhouse is in the background.

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

by Shoshana Walter , Jenny Casas , Nina Martin , Nikki Frick , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Claire Mullen , Missa Perron , Kate Howard , Brett Myers , Taki Telonidis and Al Letson September 7, 2024 September 9, 2024

You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next.

A portrait of a young woman with long, dark hair, standing amid plants and looking off into the distance.

They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.

by Shoshana Walter , Najib Aminy , Melissa Lewis , Nina Martin , Nikki Frick , Claire Mullen , D. Victoria Baranetsky , Anayansi Diaz-Cortes , Taki Telonidis , Brett Myers , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb and Al Letson August 31, 2024 September 5, 2024

Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare agencies that separate mothers from their newborns.

A collage with images of rural land, a baby, and pieces of documents involving the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.

A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided

by Andrew Becker , Bernice Yeung , Ashley Cleek , Jenny Casas , Nikki Frick , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Claire Mullen , Missa Perron , Kate Howard , D. Victoria Baranetsky , Taki Telonidis , Brett Myers and Al Letson August 24, 2024 August 23, 2024

A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.

A collage features TVs with news shows, virus shapes, and numbers in a spreadsheet.

The COVID Tracking Project Part 3

by Jessica Malaty Rivera , Kara Oehler , Artis Curiskis , Michael I Schiller , Nikki Frick , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Brett Myers , Taki Telonidis and Al Letson August 17, 2024 August 19, 2024

The last episode of our series looks at the myth of COVID-19 as “the great equalizer” and what went wrong in the CDC’s response to the pandemic.

A collage shows the White House, a COVID-19 testing kit and numbers from a spreadsheet.

The COVID Tracking Project Part 2

by Jessica Malaty Rivera , Kara Oehler , Artis Curiskis , Michael I Schiller , Nikki Frick , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Brett Myers , Taki Telonidis and Al Letson August 10, 2024 August 9, 2024

Part two of our three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.

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The COVID Tracking Project Part 1

by Jessica Malaty Rivera , Kara Oehler , Artis Curiskis , Michael I Schiller , Nikki Frick , Michael Montgomery , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Brett Myers , Taki Telonidis and Al Letson August 3, 2024 August 9, 2024

This three-part series takes listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19 and explores the massive volunteer effort to collect data about the disease.

Photos of Adam Aurand at various ages sit above a sign that reads,

The Churn

by Najib Aminy , Jenny Casas , Brett Myers , Nikki Frick , Taki Telonidis , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Zulema Cobb , Steven Rascón and Al Letson July 27, 2024 July 30, 2024

People who experience psychosis often cycle through homelessness, emergency rooms, and jail. What happened to America’s mental health system?

Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church

by Michael Montgomery , Brett Myers , Nikki Frick , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb and Taki Telonidis July 20, 2024 July 18, 2024

Audio recordings provide an unprecedented look at the methods the Mormon church uses to keep child sexual abuse cases secret.

Candace Leslie sits on a couch, holding a framed portrait of her son.

How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals

by Taki Telonidis , Nikki Frick , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Brett Myers , Steven Rascón , Zulema Cobb and Al Letson July 13, 2024 July 12, 2024

Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.

In Bondage to the Law

by Jenny Casas , Steven Rascón , Kate Howard , Nikki Frick , Zulema Cobb , Jim Briggs , Fernando Arruda , Taki Telonidis , Brett Myers and Al Letson July 6, 2024 July 11, 2024

Toforest Johnson has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 25 years. Now, his conviction is being called into question.

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