The Experiment
It’s easy to forget that the United States started as an experiment: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with liberty and justice for all. That was the idea. On this weekly show, we check in on how that experiment is going. The Experiment: stories from an unfinished country. From The Atlantic and WNYC Studios. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. Since 1857, The Atlantic has been a magazine of ideas—a home to the best writers and boldest minds, who bring clarity and original thinking to the most important issues of our time.
Julia Longoria Presents Good Robot
Hello Experiment listeners! Julia Longoria, host of The Experiment, has a new series out and we thought...
ListenThe Experiment Introduces More Perfect
Host Julia Longoria is back with a new season of More Perfect, from WNYC Studios. We’re taught the...
ListenThe End of This Experiment
The Experiment is coming to an end. For our final episode, we contemplate our strange, sometimes beautiful,...
ListenThe Experiment Introduces: How To Start Over With Olga Khazan
In The Atlantic’s new series How To Start Over, Olga Khazan takes listeners on a journey of reinvention....
ListenThe ‘Perfect Crime’ in Yellowstone’s ‘Zone of Death’
Deep in Yellowstone National Park, there’s a glitch in the U.S. Constitution where, technically, you...
ListenFighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
In June 1964, at the height of the civil-rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan burned a Black Methodist...
ListenTeenage Life After Genocide
At 19 years old, Aséna Tahir Izgil feels wise beyond her years. She is Uyghur, an ethnic minority persecuted...
ListenJudge Judy’s Law
Almost 30 years ago, a fed-up Manhattan-family-court judge named Judith Sheindlin was sitting in her...
ListenThe Experiment introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
The Experiment introduces WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon's new podcast: Dead End: A New Jersey Political...
ListenThe Resurgence of the Abortion Underground
There’s a common story about abortion in this country, that people have only two options to intentionally...
ListenShould We Return National Parks to Native Americans?
The national-park system has been touted as “America’s best idea.” David Treuer, an Ojibwe historian...
ListenWho Belongs in the Cherokee Nation?
From the time she was a little girl, Marilyn Vann knew she was Black and she was Cherokee. But when...
ListenThe Helen Keller Exorcism
The fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson has been haunted by Helen Keller for nearly her entire life. Elsa...
ListenAn Engineer Tries to Build His Way Out of Tragedy
James Sulzer has always loved building things. As a rehabilitation engineer, he spent years creating...
ListenOne American Family’s Debt to Ukraine
As Putin invaded Ukraine last month, the Atlantic writer Franklin Foer found the Russian leader’s...
ListenJust Put Some Vicks on It
The Experiment host Julia Longoria has always had a special relationship with Vicks Vaporub—the scent...
ListenEl Sueño de SPAM
Who are the people who make modern-day SPAM possible? You can find clues on the streets of downtown...
ListenCram Your SPAM
SPAM is at the center of one of the longest and most contentious labor battles in U.S. history. In 1985,...
ListenUncle SPAM
During World War II, wherever American troops spread democracy, they left the canned meat known as SPAM...
ListenSPAM on the Range
America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? Thou art more decadent, salty and sweet, container of...
ListenIn Between Pro-life and Pro-choice
Rebecca Shrader had always thought that abortion was morally wrong. As a devout Baptist Christian, she...
ListenProtecting the Capitol One Year After January 6
On January 6, 2021, William J. Walker was head of the D.C. National Guard. He had buses full of guardsmen...
ListenIs There Justice in Felony Murder?
This week, The Experiment takes a look at the charge that sent Anissa Jordan to prison for a crime she...
ListenThe Wandering Soul
As the Vietnam War dragged on, the U.S. military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in...
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