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Lorenzo Sewell—the pastor who delivered a prayer at Trump’s inauguration—argues that the president is making Black Americans’ lives better despite rolling back DEI initiatives.

This week on More To The Story, Al Letson sits down with MAGA's Black pastor: apple.co/442aYMu
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?

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A man in a baseball cap and sunglasses is seen in the foreground as he wades through tall grass. Behind him, in focus, is a young woman wearing glasses, standing on a platform in the grass. She holds a shotgun microphone that’s covered in a fuzzy windscreen and has layers of other equipment strapped around her, including headphones. Text above them: This week on Reveal: Trump's Cuts to Public Media Could Spell Deadly Consequences When a typhoon hit Alaska, public radio station KYUK was broadcasting critical information about conditions and search and rescue ooperations. An estimated 1,600 people were displaced, and many were saved in the biggest airlift operation in state history. From "In Rural America, Public Radio Saves Lives" KYUK broadcasts in English and Yugtun, the language of the Indigenous population that lives in villages along two massive rivers. The station is a lifeline for this unique region. But after Congress pulled more than $1 billion in funding, it lost 70 percent of its operating budget. From "In Rura America, Public Radio Saves Lives." This week on Reveal, we take listeners inside KYUK as it grapples with this new reality and sit down Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski to discuss how the cuts are affecting her state. We also look back at Fred Rogers', host of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, decades-long defense of public television. From "In Rural America, Public Radio Saves Lives"
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“It's me. Big Bird, big, yellow, a menace to our economy.” Remember this 2012 campaign ad poking fun at Mitt Romney for going after public media?

This hour, we revisit the attack on NPR, PBS, and how Fred Rogers saved the day in 1968.

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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn street in 2001. In prison, he reckoned with his crime and became a nationally known writer while behind bars.

He talks with @alletson.bsky.social from Sing Sing Correctional Facility on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Executions are rising in the US. This reverend witnesses them.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” death row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood talks about how his longtime activism for racial justice led him inside America’s execution chambers.

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November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Did you miss this week's edition of The Weekly Reveal? Don't worry. We've got you covered.

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A screenshot of this week's version of The Weekly Reveal, Reveal's free weekly newsletter. At the top of the page is "The Weekly Reveal," in bold, orange lettering. Underneath, in black Times New Roman font, is the date: Saturday, November 8, 2025. Following is the headline for that week's episode, "I Study Fascism. I've Already Fled America." in black text. Underneath is a close-up photograph of Donald Trump peering out a back window of the presidential limousine. With narrowed eyes and mouth slightly ajar, he is wearing a suit and tie with an American flag pin on his left lapel. Then a large blue button that reads "Listen to the Episode" Then a blurb about the contents of the episode: Recently, one of my closest childhood friends dropped a bit of news: She’s moving across the pond to Ireland. I was immediately flooded with a litany of emotions. Overjoyed for her and her husband. Wistful that she would no longer be a stone’s throw away from the house I grew up in. Then a thought hit me like a freight train: Should I be thinking about moving out of the country, too? The United States is not exactly thriving as a democracy right now. This is exactly why former Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley quit his job and moved with his family to Canada. Now, as the Bissell-Heyd chair in American studies at the University of Toronto, he says the move has made it easier to fight against fascism in the US. “I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale,” he says. “I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.” The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future joins host Al Letson on this week’s More To The Story. Check it out! —Arianna Coghill
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Earlier this year, Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley fled to Canada.

Why? Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale professor Jason Stanley has been taking a lot of heat for moving to Canada. Why?

Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

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November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Any fans of Neutral Milk Hotel?

Our producer, @acleek.bsky.social, often tells the tale of the band’s lead singer calling into her college radio show to play his new song.

But was it really him?

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October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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America had a Black president. Then came the whitelash.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” @jelaniya.bsky.social traces the tumultuous throughline from Trayvon Martin to the rise of white nationalism and reexamines Barack Obama’s legacy in the age of Trump.

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October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“We just want to protest the fact that our democracy seems to be going down the tubes.”

On this week's More To The Story, @alletson.bsky.social talks to No Kings protesters about the Trump White House, authoritarianism, and the future of American democracy.

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A man draped in an American flag, wearing a gray baseball cap, and another man in a black hat, black shorts, and black and white sneakers, walking in front of a collection of red, cut-out letters that spell "GOP PROTECTS PEDOPHILES". An elderly woman in a faded red hat holding a sign reading "NO KINGS, Where is Congress?" stands off to the side. A bearded Black man with dreadlocks, sunglasses, and headphones interviews two Black women wearing dark shirts and natural hair. They're standing amongst a throng of protesters in front of DC's National Gallery of Art's East Building. The museum's famous blue rooster statue can be seen in the back. A bearded Black man wearing a black t-shirt and over-the-ear headphones, and a white woman with brown hair and a black and white striped shirt holding a boom mic interview a woman with dark hair tied in a side braid. She's wearing a yellow shirt that says "NO KINGS" as well as a yellow bandana and a yellow button. All three are standing amongst a throng of protesters carrying colorful signs protesting against Trump's authoritarian rule. The US Capitol building can be seen in the distance. A bespectacled white man wearing a blue shirt and a Patagonia hat stands in the foreground, backdropped by various colorful protest signs. To the left is a sign constructed to look like a taco, complete with tissue paper lettuce. Written on it is "Let's TACO bout...Oligarchy." Behind it is a blue sign with a yellow crown with a red X drawn through it, reading "NO KINGS." Several people also hold American flags.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Some had creative posters. Others wore inflatable costumes. But all of them told @alletson.bsky.social they feared for the direction of the country under President Trump.

Conversations with No Kings protesters on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Don't believe Trump's claims about "violent antifa" at today's #NoKings protests.

More To The Story host @alletson.bsky.social and Reveal's producer @karamcguirkallison.bsky.social joined thousands of others in DC.

Here's what they saw.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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@billmckibben.bsky.social is a long-time environmental activist whose outlook on climate change has been described as “dark realism.”

Now, he’s painting a much sunnier picture about the future of our planet thanks to the remarkable rise of solar power.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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On this week’s “More To The Story,” @karenhao.bsky.social sounds the alarm about the rising risks to the planet from the supercharged growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“I am extremely pessimistic about what would happen if we allowed Silicon Valley to keep building the technology the way that they want to."

We sat down with @karenhao.bsky.social to talk about OpenAI's rapid rise on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company.

Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Trump sicced the National Guard on LA, ramping up immigrant arrests in a city that’s been targeted by ICE for months.

Here’s how @lataco.bsky.social, a local taco site tracking the raids, became an essential reporting powerhouse to their community.

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October 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Baltimore’s homicide and violent crime rates are approaching all-time lows. So why is Trump threatening to send the National Guard in?

Mayor Brandon Scott has an answer on this week’s More To The Story with @alletson.bsky.social.

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September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.”

Mother Jones editor @markfollman.bsky.social discusses how the Trump administration is using Charlie Kirk’s murder to fuel America’s political battles.

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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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On this week’s “More To The Story,” the second half of @trymainelee.bsky.social’s conversation with host @alletson.bsky.social about the burdens of covering violence against Black Americans as a Black journalist.

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September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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How exactly should a Black journalist cover violence against Black Americans?

That’s the heart of this week’s discussion between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @trymainelee.bsky.social and “More To The Story’s” @alletson.bsky.social.

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September 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Journalist @trymainelee.bsky.social’s first book almost killed him when a massive heart attack at age 38 nearly took his life.

The near-death experience changed him and his book. On this week’s “More To The Story,” the cost of violence on Black men in America.

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September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Did you know you can create a legacy of truth—even without a will?

Naming the Center for Investigative Reporting as a beneficiary of your retirement plan, or other financial account, is a great way to give future generations access to the reporting you trust.

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August 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Overmedicating. Exploiting. Profiting. America’s drug rehab industry too often harms the patients it’s supposed to be helping.

@alletson.bsky.social examines drug rehab in the US and the lingering opioid crisis on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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August 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM