Throughline

Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the q

Episodes

Total: 316

References to God and Christianity are sprinkled throughout American life. Our money has "In God We

The Battle For Jerusalem

2024/10/3

Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to cont

Hezbollah is a Lebanese paramilitary organization and political party that's directly supported by t

The Conspiracy Files

2024/9/12

9/11 was an inside job. Aliens have already made contact. COVID-19 was created in a lab.

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Airline workers — pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, baggage handlers, and more — represent a hug

Water in the West

2024/8/29

What does it mean to do the greatest good for the greatest number? When the Los Angeles Aqueduct ope

The Third Amendment. Maybe you've heard it as part of a punchline. It's the one about quartering tro

The Fourteenth Amendment. Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It'

The Sixth Amendment. Most of us take it for granted that if we're ever in court and we can't afford

In 1966, the governing body of the Olympic track and field event started mandatory examinations of a

The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregister

The First Amendment. Book bans, disinformation, the wild world of the internet. Free speech debates

Sudan has been at the center of a deadly and brutal war for over a year. It's the site of the world'

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – n

Birmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights Movement. And in order

Today, the U.S. popular music industry is worth billions of dollars. And some of its deepest roots a

One day in late April 1958, a young economist named Madeleine Tress was approached by two men in sui

Since October 7th, the term Zionism has been everywhere in the news. It's been used to support Israe

In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind told the U.S. Supreme Court that he was whi

International courts investigating alleged war crimes have made headlines often in recent months. An