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Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question,

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The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha

Today on the show, we're taking you behind the scenes. We'll tell you how Throughline was born, some

What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect pro

The question of settlements has loomed over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades, and has on

Today on the show, two stories of building power in swing states: from the top down, and the bottom

Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains: believe it or not, how regular people vote was not some

References to God and Christianity are sprinkled throughout American life. Our money has "In God We

Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to cont

Hezbollah is a Lebanese paramilitary organization and political party that's directly supported by t

9/11 was an inside job. Aliens have already made contact. COVID-19 was created in a lab.Maybe you ro

Airline workers — pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, baggage handlers, and more — represent a hug

What does it mean to do the greatest good for the greatest number? When the Los Angeles Aqueduct ope

The Third Amendment. Maybe you've heard it as part of a punchline. It's the one about quartering tro

The Fourteenth Amendment. Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It'

The Sixth Amendment. Most of us take it for granted that if we're ever in court and we can't afford

In 1966, the governing body of the Olympic track and field event started mandatory examinations of a

The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregister

The First Amendment. Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates

Sudan has been at the center of a deadly and brutal war for over a year. It's the site of the world'

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – n