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At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later, Ellsberg reveals his evolution from Cold Warrior...
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After 10 seasons of the award-winning GroundTruth Podcast, we’re excited about what might come next.
But to find the best way forward, we want...
The Whistleblower - Epilogue: Truth Is the First Casualty
In war, truth is the first casualty.
It's a military maxim attributed to Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy. In the lead up to the 20th anni...
The Whistleblower - Extra: Into the Archive
A class of college students at UMass Amherst became the first group of researchers to take on Daniel Ellsberg's vast archive. For two students, it's m...
The Whistleblower - Episode 5: The Doomsday Machine
Before he was helping plan the Vietnam War, Ellsberg was working at Rand Corporation as a nuclear war planner. In the late 1950’s and early 60’s, he c...
The Whistleblower - Episode 4: Most Dangerous Man
Now facing a possible 115 years in prison, Daniel Ellsberg awaits his federal espionage trial. Meanwhile, Nixon unleashes his Plumbers in an attempt t...
The Whistleblower - Episode 3: The Presses Roll
On September 30, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg opened his newspaper to a story out of Vietnam that would act as the trigger for copying the Pentagon Papers. W...
The Whistleblower - Episode 2: The Force of Truth
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press knowing he could face the rest of his life in prison. But what turned this Cold War hawk into...
The Whistleblower - Episode 1: The Lying Machine
In the series premiere, we pick up on Ellsberg’s first day at the Pentagon, the day he became acquainted with what he came to call the “lying machine....
The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg TRAILER
Americans across the country opened their newspapers to the first reports based on classified documents leaked by a government insider, Daniel Ellsber...
On the Ground: Election Episode – 2020 and Counting
The turmoil of the 2020 presidential election campaigns has raised questions about just what it means to vote.
Who gets to pull the lever? How c...
On the Ground in Kentucky's District 67
When you think about Kentucky's deep red politics today, it's likely the face of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his laconic drawl that com...
On the Ground in the Mississippi Delta
The origins of Blues music is a complex weave of traditions, and the genre echoes suffering and endurance through centuries of hardship. Evolving from...
On the Ground with Report for America: Woods Hole, Massachusetts
For most of us, it's hard to ignore the rising threat of climate change. But the sheer magnitude of the devastation it could cause is daunting. For th...
On the Ground with Report for America: Chicago's South Side
For many growing up in Chicago, the barber shop is a refuge. Raised on the Windy City's West Side, Report for America corps member Manny Ramos knows t...
On the Ground with Report for America: Inside Mississippi's Prison System
In August 2018, well before any thought of a pandemic sweeping the country, Mississippi’s prison system saw a spike in inmate deaths. Correctional off...
On the Ground with Report for America: Bird Singers of the American Southwest
Bird Singing is an oral tradition that has been passed down for centuries among the tribes across the American Southwest. These stories are sung by ma...
On the Ground with Report for America: Deadly Force--An Investigative Report
“Deadly Force,” a new podcast series from Report for America host newsroom WPLN in Nashville, focuses on the trial of the first Nashville police offic...
On the Ground with Report for America: Almost Independence Day
July 3, 2018. It was almost Independence Day.
Lee Eric Evans straightened a flag pole on his aunt’s front porch. He carefully unfurled an Americ...
On the Ground with Report for America: Pandemic and Protest, Coast to Coast, Part 2
Report for America corps member Chris Ehrmann continues on his road trip across America, picking up in St. Louis, where economic recovery depends on w...
On the Ground with Report for America: Pandemic and Protest, Coast to Coast, Part 1
Report for America corps member Chris Ehrmann embarked on a road trip across America, literally, from Times Square to Los Angeles, California. He trac...
On the Ground with Report for America - Trailer
The 9th season of the GroundTruth Podcast is a playlist of stories from across America. We shadow our Report for America corps members as they bring u...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Bonus Episode - Guardrails of Democracy
As a thick morning fog was still lifting over the hills here above the San Francisco Bay, Ellsberg sat at his dining room table, sipping a cup of coff...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Eroding Truth in America
As Donald Trump took the oath of office and became the 45th President of the United States, journalists’ role of covering the White House and the pres...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Dividing and Conquering in Poland
LGBT communities face challenges in all parts of the world. But in Poland, the right-wing populist Law and Justice party spent the last year insisting...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Exploiting Religion in India
In August, 1947, British colonial rule officially ended in India. Within 6 months, Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s independence movement, was as...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Rewriting History in Hungary
It is often said that journalism is the first draft of history. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s dominance of Hungarian media gives him the power to not...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Undermining Institutions in Colombia
In September, 2016, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, and Timochenko Jimenez, the rebel leader of the FARC--the Revolutionary Armed Force...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Targeting Outsiders in Italy
Matteo Salvini is one of Italy’s most popular politicians. His harsh rhetoric against migrants, the media, and cultural integration has resonated with...
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Weaponizing Fear in Brazil
Since taking office in January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has weaponized the fear of widespread crime, and tapped into the country’s anger wit...
Democracy Undone: Series Intro
The hallmarks of populist nationalism are gaining ground in many of the world’s largest democracies, from Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Trump...
Unheard in Appalachia
Crossing the Divide is a collaboration with WGBH that brought together a team of five reporters from red states and blue states to travel across the c...
New American Songbook: For My Ayeeyo
Somalia is often called a land of poets, a place where everything from teenage romance to legal disputes has been recorded and passed down through poe...
Memorial Day Special - The Eleventh Hour
In honor of Memorial Day, we’re looking back at World War 1, the Great War. It’s been a century since the world powers gathered in Paris to hammer out...
The End of Days - Part 3 - A New Jerusalem - Shaping Mideast Policy
The Dead Sea lies at the lowest elevation on earth. And in the arid valley that stretches to the salt lake's western shore sits Ein Gedi, a nature pre...
The End of Days - Part 2 - The Armies of Heaven - Inside the Movement
In the second chapter of this series, we go inside the Christian Zionist community in Jerusalem and the settlements in the West Bank. Micah Danney, ou...
The End of Days: How Christian Zionism is Transforming US Policy in the Middle East
Twenty years ago, a movement known as Christian Zionism was on the furthest fringes in the land of Israel.
Back then, mainstream theologians — C...
The Eleventh Hour
After four years of fighting, 20 million soldiers and civilians dead, and three collapsed empires, World War One ended and a new world order emerged....
War Children
A year after the city of Mosul was liberated from ISIS rule, kids across Iraq are not alright. The most vulnerable are often overlooked: orphans, the...
What Ever Happened to Zika?
Before Hurricane Maria, the Zika crisis was already pushing Puerto Rico’s health care system to the limit. Then the storm came and crippled it complet...
The Dancing Ghosts of Duffy's Cut
When Bill and Frank Watson were kids, their grandfather told them a ghost story. Decades later, the brothers discovered the source of that story in th...