Throughline
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 of it. From ancient civilizations to forgotten figures, we take you directly to the moments that shaped our world. Throughline is hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalists Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei.Subscribe to Throughline+. You'll be supporting the history-reframing, perspective-shift...
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Qatar's World Cup
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Dreams, Creatures, and Visions
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The Most Sacred Right (2020)
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The State of Disunion
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The Woman Question
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The Dance of the Dead (2021)
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Silicon Island
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Editing Reality
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Five Fingers Crush the Land (2021)
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Getting to Sesame Street
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How Korean Culture Went Global
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American Socialist (2020)
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Drone Wars (2021)
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Afghanistan: The Rise of the Taliban (2021)
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Afghanistan: The Center of the World (2021)
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The Mystery of Inflation
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Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have (2021)
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Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon
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The Long Hot Summer (2020)
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Throughline Presents: School Colors
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Do Not Pass Go
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The Evangelical Vote (2019)
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After Roe: A New Battlefield
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By Accident of Birth
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The Modern White Power Movement (2020)
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The Characters That Built China
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Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade
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Bonus: The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History
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The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)
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Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico
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The New Gilded Age
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Force of Nature (2021)
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The Everlasting Problem (2020)
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Capitalism: What Makes Us Free? (2021)
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The Land of the Fee (2021)
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All Wars Are Fought Twice
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Our Own People (2021)
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Ukraine's Dangerous Independence
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Of Rats and Men
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There Are No Utopias
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Marcus Garvey: Pan-Africanist (2021)
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Pirates of the Senate
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A Story Of Us?
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Russia's Longest Leader: Vladimir Putin (2019)
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Throughline Sleeps
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The Way We Dream
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Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021)
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The Anatomy of Autocracy: Timothy Snyder (2021)
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The Electrical Grid (2020)
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Bonus: On Our Watch
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