Embedded
Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a town ravaged by the opioid epidemic, Embedded takes you where the news is happening.
We Keep Us Safe: The Standoff
EPISODE 2: In the summer of 2020, protests are happening all across the country. But Seattle is different....
ListenWe Keep Us Safe: Who Killed Antonio Mays Jr.?
EPISODE 1: When 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. was shot and killed inside Seattle's CHOP protest zone...
ListenIntroducing "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial...
ListenThe Girls: “This is my story to tell”
Alleged victims of the Stoners find each other online and band together to demand justice. But they...
ListenThe Girls: “If it was your daughter”
17-year-old Aryalle Stoner runs away from home and tells the police that her father, Ronnie Stoner,...
ListenThe Girls: “This isn’t ringing alarms to y’all?”
Allegations pile up, but Child Protective Services declines to investigate and the school district continues...
ListenThe Girls: “I need to tell you something”
In 2023, 17-year-old Abbie Jones and her family accuse her high school football coach, Donnie Stoner,...
ListenThe Network: Pivoting as mifepristone access shifts
After next Monday, doctors may not be able to mail people the abortion pill Mifepristone. That would...
ListenAlternate Realities: Double or Nothing
As soon as Alternate Realities publishes, Zach Mack calls his dad to hear his reactions to the series....
ListenThe Harvard Plan: The Endless Frontier
Universities were not always so vulnerable to the whims of politics. The whole system of taxpayer-funded,...
ListenThe Harvard Plan: Jay & Alan
Harvard president Alan Garber and National Institutes of Health head Jay Bhattacharya are two main characters...
ListenThe Harvard Plan: And so it begins…
The Harvard Plan, a collaboration between On the Media and The Boston Globe, is about the fight for...
ListenAlternate Realities: A Question for Listeners
After we released Alternate Realities, hundreds of listeners reached out, sharing stories about friends...
ListenCongress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential...
ListenThe Network: Déjà vu
The network and its method took off in countries where women didn't have a legal option for abortion....
ListenThe Network: Breaking Bread
The network had developed a method that had the potential to get women widespread access to safe abortions....
ListenThe Network: Saint-o-tec
In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying...
ListenIntroducing "The Network" from NPR and Futuro Media
Decades ago, Brazilian women made a discovery that allowed them to have safe abortions without a doctor,...
ListenAlternate Realities: Facing the Facts
Episode 3: After a year of waiting, the bet is finally over. Reporter Zach Mack takes stock of his father's...
ListenAlternate Realities: Down the Rabbit Hole
Episode 2: After reporter Zach Mack accepts a bet with his father over 10 politically apocalyptic predictions,...
ListenAlternate Realities: A Strange Bet
Episode 1: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father...
ListenIntroducing Alternate Realities from NPR
Zach Mack and his dad are living in separate realities, and it's tearing their family apart. Like so...
ListenFive Fingers Crush The Land from NPR's Throughline
As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series "The Black Gate," hundreds of thousands...
ListenThe Black Gate: Vanished in the Night
In the Xinjiang region of western China, the government has rounded up and detained hundreds of thousands...
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