John D. Rockefeller Junior
Part one left the old man under an obelisk in Cleveland, ninety-seven years old, the richest human being who had ever lived, and remembered by most of America as a kindly figure who handed out dimes a...
7 Elo 57min
John D. Rockefeller Sr. The Man Who Bought the Story
In February of 1908, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World walked into a drugstore in Freeport, Illinois, put a photograph on the counter, and finally closed a manhunt that had run for seven...
5 Elo 1h 10min
Say My Name
A man in Zhengzhou spent eight years living in a $42-a-month rental and sending every spare yuan home to his wife so she'd feel secure. When he finally asked to see the bank account, she refused. Then...
2 Elo 1h 2min
The Bombing Of Pan Am Flight 103
At two minutes past seven on the evening of December 21, 1988, an air traffic controller at Prestwick watched a single radar return break apart into a spray of echoes over the Solway Firth. Thirty-eig...
31 Heinä 1h 17min
The Wealth Divide
The wealth divide in America did not settle the way sediment settles. It was built, revised, briefly reversed, and then rebuilt with better engineering, and nearly every stage of it can be traced to i...
29 Heinä 1h 21min
The Distraction Machine
For more than two thousand years, powerful institutions have understood something that gets rediscovered in every generation: an absorbed public is a manageable public. In this episode I follow that i...
26 Heinä 1h 7min
The Year Without a Summer
In June of 1816, snow fell on Vermont and killing frost swept through New England in the middle of what should have been the growing season. Frost returned in July and again in August, the corn crop c...
24 Heinä 1h 6min
The Watchers We Invited In
How many calls from unknown numbers did you get today? The one about your car's extended warranty, the text about a package that couldn't be delivered, the voice on the line claiming your grandson is ...
22 Heinä 1h 13min
