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.
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The Mother of Thanksgiving
Behind the Scenes of Throughline
The Electoral College (Throwback)
A History of Settlements
The Swing State Power Brokers
How We Vote (Throwback)
A History of Christian Nationalism
The Battle For Jerusalem
A History of Hezbollah (Throwback)
When Things Fall Apart (Throwback)
The Conspiracy Files
How U.S. Unions Took Flight (Throwback)
Water in the West
We The People: Canary in the Coal Mine
We The People: Equal Protection
We The People: Legal Representation
Tested: Questions of a Physical Nature
We the People: Gun Rights
We The People: Free Speech
The Creeping Coup
The Roots of Poverty in America
Road to Rickwood: The Holy Grail of Baseball
Pop Music's First Black Stars
The Lavender Scare (Throwback)
A History of Zionism
The Whiteness Myth (Throwback)
The Rules of War
Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines (Throwback)
The Mandela Effect
The Labor Of Love (Throwback)
The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure
The Ghost in Your Phone (Throwback)
Ralph Nader, Consumer Crusader
The 14th Amendment
The Land of the Fee (Throwback)
A History of Hezbollah
The Great Textbook War
Radiolab: Worst. Year. Ever
A Symphony of Resistance (Throwback)
The Rise of the Right Wing in Israel
The Right to An Attorney
Dance Yourself Free (Throwback)
Love, Throughline
The Scent of History
James Baldwin's Shadow (Throwback)
Bonus: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop
The Man Who Cured Aging
The Right to Bear Arms
When Things Fall Apart (Throwback)
The Nostalgia Bone (2021)
Editing Reality (2023)
Apology: The Way Back (2023)
Dare to Dissent
The Lord Of Misrule
A.D.A. Now! (2020)
How U.S. Unions Took Flight
A History of Hamas
Grenada: Nobody's Backyard (2021)
The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket
The Three Faces of Ataturk
The Dance of the Dead (2021)
The Contradictions of Abraham Lincoln
Two Miles Down The Road
Tenochtitlán: A Retelling of the Conquest (2021)
David v Goliath
A Tale of Two Tribal Nations
Silicon Island (2022)
How Korean Culture Went Global (2022)
By Accident of Birth (2022)
The Characters That Built China (2022)
The Lavender Scare
Getting to Sesame Street (2022)
The Hidden War
All Wars Are Fought Twice (2022)
No Bad Ideas?
The Legacy of Henry Kissinger
After Roe: A New Battlefield (2022)
The Labor Of Love
Affirmative Action
Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade (2022)
The Ghost in Your Phone
The Freedom of Speech
History Is Over (2021)
Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines
What's Your Worth?
Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico (2022)
The Way Back
Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes
Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon (2022)
Throughline Presents: Louder Than A Riot
The Mystery of Inflation (2022)
Everyone Everywhere All At Once
Meltdown (2020)
A More Perfect Human
Dance Yourself Free
Of Rats and Men (2022)
Throughline Presents: White Lies
The Whiteness Myth
The Real Black Panthers (2021)
When Things Fall Apart
Extremist Futures
Do Not Pass Go (2022)
Nancy Pelosi (2019)
The Monster of We (2021)
The New Gilded Age (2022)
God Wants You To Be Rich (2021)
Road to Partition
400 Years of Sweetness
The Nostalgia Bone (2021)
La Última Copa: El sueño del pibe
The Last Cup: The Kid's Dream
Qatar's World Cup
Dreams, Creatures, and Visions
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
The State of Disunion
The Woman Question
The Dance of the Dead (2021)
Silicon Island
Editing Reality
Five Fingers Crush the Land (2021)
Getting to Sesame Street
How Korean Culture Went Global
American Socialist (2020)
Drone Wars (2021)
Afghanistan: The Rise of the Taliban (2021)
Afghanistan: The Center of the World (2021)
The Mystery of Inflation
Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have (2021)
Student Loans: The Fund-Eating Dragon
The Long Hot Summer (2020)
Throughline Presents: School Colors
Do Not Pass Go
The Evangelical Vote (2019)
After Roe: A New Battlefield
By Accident of Birth
The Modern White Power Movement (2020)
The Characters That Built China
Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade
Bonus: The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History
The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)
Cinco de Mayo and the Rise of Modern Mexico
The New Gilded Age
Force of Nature (2021)
The Everlasting Problem (2020)
Capitalism: What Makes Us Free? (2021)
The Land of the Fee (2021)
All Wars Are Fought Twice
Our Own People (2021)
Ukraine's Dangerous Independence
Of Rats and Men
There Are No Utopias
Marcus Garvey: Pan-Africanist (2021)
Pirates of the Senate
A Story Of Us?
Russia's Longest Leader: Vladimir Putin (2019)
Throughline Sleeps
The Way We Dream
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021)
The Anatomy of Autocracy: Timothy Snyder (2021)
The Electrical Grid (2020)
Bonus: On Our Watch
American Socialist (2020)
The Monster of We
History Is Over
A Symphony of Resistance (2021)
Fighting Fires and Family Secrets
Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have
Aftermath (2020)
Bonus: The Deep History of Dune
Drone Wars
The Dance of the Dead
The Stars (2020)
The Nostalgia Bone
Tenochtitlan: A Retelling of The Conquest
Bonus: Soul Train
The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)
Bonus: We're Not Broken
The Supreme Court (2020)
Afghanistan: The Rise of the Taliban
Afghanistan: The Center of the World
The Aftermath of Collapse: Bronze Age Edition (2021)
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)
El Libertador and Venezuela's Rise and Fall (2019)
Lives of the Great Depression (2020)
Stories of How We Cope With Chaos (2021)
Grenada: Nobody's Backyard
Olympics: Behind The Five Rings
Home/Front: Marla's War
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
Bonus: Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?
Capitalism: God Wants You To Be Rich
Capitalism: What Makes Us Free?
Bonus: The Vanishing of Harry Pace
Capitalism: What Is It?
Before Stonewall (2019)
Who is NPR (For)?
The Supreme Court
Palestine
A Symphony of Resistance
Five Fingers Crush The Land
Operation Nemesis
James Baldwin's Shadow
Force of Nature
The Real Black Panthers
Policing in America
Our Own People
The Land of the Fee
Chaos
N95
Levittown: Where the Good Life Begins
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction
Marcus Garvey: Pan-Africanist
The Lasting Power Of Whitney Houston's National Anthem
What Happened After Civilization Collapsed
The Anatomy Of Autocracy: Masha Gessen
The Anatomy of Autocracy: Timothy Snyder
Impeachment
Outside/In: Everybody Knows Somebody
Outside/In: War of the Worlds
Outside/In: The Dark Side Of The Moon
Outside/In: Rules of Engagement
Supreme
The Modern White Power Movement
The Spotted Owl
The Invention of Race
BONUS: Louder Than A Riot
The Shadows of the Constitution
Bush v. Gore and Why It Matters in 2020
The Most Sacred Right
How We Vote
The Electoral College
(mis)Representative Democracy, A New Series From Throughline
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The Everlasting Problem
The Evangelical Vote
James Baldwin's Fire
The Postal Service
Reframing History: Mass Incarceration
Reframing History: Bananas
Reframing History: The Commentator
Reframing History: The Litter Myth
America's Caste System
A.D.A. Now!
Lives Of The Great Depression
Borinquén
The Long Hot Summer
Mecca Under Siege
There's Something About Mary
Why 2020 Isn't Quite 1968
Presidential Power
American Police
Hong Kong
Conspiracy
The Mask
Endless War
Meltdown
Aftermath
Buzzkill
Throughline Presents: Code Switch
A Race To Know
1918 Flu
American Socialist
Savarkar And India
Public Universal Friend
The Invisible Border
The Stars
Becoming America
She Got Next
Vaccination
Soleimani's Iran
Everybody Knows Somebody
There Will Be Bananas
Fear of Technology
Russia's Vladimir Putin
Planned Obsolescence
America's Opioid Epidemic
The Electrical Grid
Conspiracy Theories
A Year Of Wonders
The Siege of Mecca
Throughline Presents: Short Wave
No Friend But The Mountains
ZOMBIES
The Dark Side Of The Moon
A Borrowed Time
The Commentator
High Crimes And Misdemeanors
American Exile
Puerto Rico
Three Chords And The Truth
The Litter Myth
On The Shoulders Of Giants
Strange Fruit
Mass Incarceration
Scorched Earth
Huey Long Vs. The Media
Milliken v. Bradley
Rules Of Engagement
Four Days In August
American Anthem
Before Stonewall
The X On The Map
Apocalypse Now
Mitch McConnell
Savarkar's India
A Dream Of Modern China
El Libertador
White Nationalism
Outbreak
Resistance Is Futile
War Of The Worlds
Nancy Pelosi
Opioids In America
The Phoebus Cartel
The Border
The Moth
American Shadows
High Crimes And Misdemeanors
The Forgotten War
On the Shoulders of Giants
Four Days in August