The Realities of a Post-Roe America
When Roe was overturned in the summer of 2022, at least 13 states had laws put in place that were meant to be triggered by the fall of Roe and ban abortion in all but the most extreme cases. But what ...
12 Jan 202322min
The End of Pain
For over 30 years, Danny Elliot suffered from severe chronic pain, the aftermath of nearly getting electrocuted to death in a home accident. The only thing that eased his pain was the powerful synthet...
5 Jan 202329min
A Crypto-Utopia Unravels
Last year, Motherboard Reporter Edward Ongweso Jr. spoke with Arielle Duhaime-Ross about Cryptoland: the moonshot project trying to turn a private Fijan island into a crypto-utopia and the world’s fir...
29 Dec 202227min
How Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Earlier this year, Arielle Duhaime-Ross spoke with reporters Louise Matsakis and Meaghan Tobin, who investigated Shein for the online magazine Rest of World. Matsakis and Tobin explored how Shein is r...
22 Dec 202226min
‘Give Him a Civil Death’: The Fleeing Judges of Guatemala
Miguel Angel Galvez lived a double life: at work, he was one of Guatemala’s most influential and famous jurists, presiding over cases that sent former and sitting heads of state to prison. But at nigh...
15 Dec 202235min
The QAnon Queen’s Road Trip From Hell
For years Romana Didulo, better known to her followers as Queen Romana, has built a following of tens of thousands of people online behind a blend of QAnon conspiracies, COVID-19 denial, new age mysti...
8 Dec 202238min
The Other Border
Before Trump campaigned on building a wall along the Mexico border, in 2014 President Danilo Medina wanted to build one across the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It’s part of the country’s decades-long...
2 Dec 202225min
How A Book Gets Banned in America
Local libraries across the US are facing pressure for having books related to racial justice and LGBTQ+ themes. In this week’s episode, journalist Claire Woodcock walks us through one situation in Jam...
24 Nov 202226min
