Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the middle ...

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad ...

Mainstream media has a lot to account for in 2026, but go back 90 years, and prestigious publications have often failed to see when things were so clearly wrong. In 1930s Germany, many journalists ...

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Our phone lines are typically divided by political affiliation, with a line for callers from outside the United States: Why does C-SPAN take viewer calls? One of C-SPAN's founding philosophies was ...

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