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

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Beyonce's Renaissance brought house music back to mainstream audiences. But even when it wasn't grac

We asked you to call us with your stories of looking for love in the 21st century — and man, did you

What if we told you that the key to time travel has been right in front of our eyes this whole time?

James Baldwin believed that America has been lying to itself since its founding. An insightful comme

In October of 1983, Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was assassinated in a coup, along with s

In 1899, Elie Metchnikoff woke up in Paris to learn that he had defeated old age. At least, that's w

In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun a

Climate change, political unrest, random violence: modern society can often feel like what the filmm

They say "everything old becomes new again." Today, that's baggy jeans, shag haircuts, 90s music, TV

We live in divided times, when the answer to the question 'what is reality?' depends on who you ask.

Our society is saturated in apologies. They're scripted, they're public, and they often feel less th

Sometimes, the most dangerous and powerful thing a person can do is to stand up not against their en

On November 18, 1633, a book went to press in London. Its author, Thomas Morton, had been exiled fro

The Americans with Disabilities Act is considered the most important civil rights law since the 1960

Hot Labor Summer has continued into fall as workers in industries from retail and carmaking to healt

On October 7th, the organization Hamas, which is also the ruling government of Gaza, perpetrated an

A Marxist revolution, a Cold War proxy battle, and a dream of a Black utopia. In 1983, Ronald Reagan

Roe. Brown. Obergefell. Dobbs. These Supreme Court decisions are the ones that make headlines, and e

"Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation." A military commander name

Long before it was a sugary moviefest, the Halloween we know was called Samhain. The Celts of ancien