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

Episodes

Total: 322

The Freedom of Speech

2023/5/25

Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates are all around us. Wh

History Is Over (2021)

2023/5/18

As the end of the 20th century approached, Radiohead took to the recording studio to capture the sou

Corruption. Wealth. Authoritarianism. Torture. These are the words many people associate with Ferdin

What's Your Worth?

2023/5/4

The credit score: even if you don't think much about it, that three-digit number can change your lif

Does history have a border? That is the question at the heart of Cinco de Mayo, May 5th, a holiday t

The Way Back

2023/4/20

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

Benjamin Franklin said the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Sifting through receipts, d

At the start of the 20th century, only the most privileged could afford to go to college. Today, mil

Louder Than A Riot breaks down how hip-hop history is told. Who gets to be remembered and who gets l

Rising interest rates. Layoffs. A shrinking dollar. Over the past year, the US economy has been sque

This year's Oscars were one of the most diverse in history, in all kinds of ways. Everything Everywh

Meltdown (2020)

2023/3/16

What happens when an accident puts the public at risk? In the early hours of March 28, 1979, a syste

A More Perfect Human

2023/3/9

The dream of AI — artificial intelligence — has been around for centuries: the idea of an intelligen

Dance Yourself Free

2023/3/2

Ever since Beyonce's Renaissance dropped last summer, house music has found its way back to mainstre

Of Rats and Men (2022)

2023/2/23

Rats. Love 'em or hate 'em, (though you probably hate 'em), they're part of our world. And they've b

It all started with a photograph. A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. A ph

The Whiteness Myth

2023/2/9

In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that h

In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the

When Things Fall Apart

2023/1/26

Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the fil

Extremist Futures

2023/1/19

It's 2074 and a suicide bomber has killed the President of the United States. Months later Marines o