Ranked #1
What’s love (styles) got to do with it?
What’s love (styles) got to do with it?
What do you think of when you think of welfare? Probably something along the lines of help or money given to families li... Read more
26 May 2016
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34mins
Ranked #2
The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington
The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington
Donald Trump, the business man president, isn’t the first politician to rail on government regulations. In 1979 Jimmy Ca... Read more
26 Oct 2017
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33mins
Ranked #3
The road not taken
The road not taken
What’s the best path out of poverty — work or education? Twenty years ago, welfare reformers came to this fork in the ro... Read more
7 Jul 2016
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43mins
Ranked #4
White gloves, aluminum cans and plasma
White gloves, aluminum cans and plasma
Perhaps more than any other group, women on welfare have been stigmatized. In this episode, we introduce you to two wome... Read more
11 May 2016
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34mins
Ranked #5
The Magic Bureaucrat
The Magic Bureaucrat
In the summer of 1996, on the lawn of the White House Rose Garden, President Clinton signed a bill that would dramatical... Read more
28 Apr 2016
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41mins
Ranked #6
George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack
George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack
It was the perfect political prop: drugs seized by government agents right across the street from the White House, just ... Read more
21 Mar 2019
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45mins
Ranked #7
Welcome to Wise County
Welcome to Wise County
It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the... Read more
4 Apr 2019
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35mins
Ranked #8
What happened to Keith?
What happened to Keith?
One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his... Read more
22 Mar 2019
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32mins
Ranked #9
The peanut butter verdict
The peanut butter verdict
For the past two episodes, we’ve been telling you the birth story of a single regulation, one of the most misunderstood,... Read more
22 Nov 2017
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38mins
Ranked #10
The Peanut Butter Wars
The Peanut Butter Wars
It’s 1959 and Ruth Desmond, the gurney-climbing, cook-from-scratch co-founder of the Federation of Homemakers was prowli... Read more
10 Nov 2017
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37mins
Ranked #11
“A mosquito in a nudist colony”
“A mosquito in a nudist colony”
President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress rolled back a gun regulation last year that would have restricted som... Read more
8 Mar 2018
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #12
Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you
Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you
There are lots of different ways to commit a crime. Some of them are obscure — it’s a crime to sell Swiss cheese without... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #13
Who’s regulating whom?
Who’s regulating whom?
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t mention corporations once. But if you want to talk about federal regulations, you have to ... Read more
5 Jan 2018
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45mins
Ranked #14
Sentencing
Sentencing
The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousan... Read more
28 Mar 2019
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48mins
Ranked #15
The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis
The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis
When OxyContin went to market in 1996, sales reps from Purdue Pharma hit one point particularly hard: Compared to other ... Read more
13 Dec 2017
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1hr 5mins