Home was where the freeway is
In celebration of Juneteenth, this week we're running some of our favorite episodes about the Black experience. Today, housing and affordability reporter Liam Dillon dives into the historical and cont...
22 Jun 202221min
The Future of Abortion, Part 5: Law
The Supreme Court’s decision on Roe vs. Wade in 1973 was supposed to end the debate on abortion once and for all. But instead, it has led to decades of division. In our “Future of Abortion” series, Th...
21 Jun 202230min
An ‘Emmett Till moment’ for guns?
In the wake of the Uvalde massacre, Emmett Till’s name is again at the forefront of a national conversation, this time about gun control. Till was the 14-year-old boy lynched by a group of white men i...
20 Jun 202225min
To be queer in Singapore
Just this year, Singapore’s top court upheld section 377A. That’s a British colonial-era law prohibiting consenting sex between men. And while the government says it doesn’t strictly enforce that law,...
17 Jun 202228min
The biggest Jan. 6 bombshells
After more than a year of investigations and thousands of hours of depositions, the Jan. 6 committee is looking to prove that former president Donald Trump had a plan to overturn the 2020 election.Tod...
16 Jun 202221min
The Future of Abortion, Part 4: Keeping It
Pregnancy centers offer services like free pregnancy tests, and sometimes resources like diapers or baby clothes — even classes and counseling. Their main focus, though, is to persuade women not to ha...
15 Jun 202226min
Why L.A. has fridge-less apartments
For most renters across the United States, having a refrigerator come with your unit is a given. Not in Southern California. For reasons no one can fully explain or understand, renters must furnish th...
14 Jun 202216min
Hidden clues of a Black family's Bible
In the late 1980s, the Diggs family of Southern California came across a family Bible with an incredible backstory. Notes written in the margin documented their family history to an enslaved ancestor ...
13 Jun 202218min
