Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question,
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"Build bridges, not walls." Solidarity was at the heart of Yuri Kochiyama's work. A Japanese-America
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Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington, was one of the most consequential architects
Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastatin
Decades before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey attracted millions with a sim
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Russian-born journalist Masha Gessen talks to us about how the rule of the people becomes the rule o
When a mob of pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, they also incite
When Andrew Johnson became president in 1865, the United States was in the midst of one of its most
In the mid-1980's a woman who didn't consider herself a feminist was asked to solve perhaps the bigg
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50 years ago the world watched as man first landed on the moon, an incredible accomplishment by the
The US and Iran have been in some state of conflict for the last 40 years, since the Iranian revolut
When, why, and how did the Supreme Court get the final say in the law of the land? The question of t
