One generation after another, women have battled for gender equity in education. But when the political tide turned against Title IX, a high school girls water polo team fought back — and kept the landmark law afloat.
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From Norway to Kazakhstan, Russia’s neighbors hold a tenuous line with the world’s largest country. Along this new Iron Curtain, scenes show what it’s like living next to the ghost of an empire that insists it has no boundaries.
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Each year, thousands of strangers pilgrimage to a small town in the middle of America where they celebrate being the same, but different. In a moment ruled by division, when genuine human connection feels like a relic of another time, what do twins know that the rest of us don’t?
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During World War II, the U.S. government invoked the Alien Enemies Act, incarcerating more than 125,000 people of Japanese descent — including many American citizens. In this multimedia portrait and interview feature, nine of the last survivors of the camps reflect on their stolen youth and how this injustice impacted the rest of their lives.
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Through a series of riveting, complex narratives, this podcast series makes sense of what people know — and what they thought they knew — about the most pivotal moments in U.S. history, including Waco, Columbine, Y2K, 9/11, COVID-19, January 6, and beyond.
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In the near future, Mexico’s capital may run out of drinking water. As the parched megalopolis struggles to quench its thirst, scenes from one of the world’s largest and most populated cities show how water scarcity could one day impact people around the globe.
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One of the world’s newest cities, Canaan emerged from the rubble of an apocalyptic earthquake and the long, slow collapse of Haiti’s government. Now, on the edge of survival, its citizens are trapped, fighting to reclaim their lives.
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Los Angeles is the homeless veteran capital of America. But in the 1950s, around 5,000 disabled vets lived on a vast campus on some of its most valuable land. Now — after decades of malfeasance, neglect, and graft — they’re fighting their own government to take their home back.
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Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, world-record-setting powerlifter Anna Kurkurina has saved and sheltered countless injured and orphaned animals, ensuring that in her country’s fight for independence, more than just the strong will survive.
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In the Mad Men era of magazine journalism, Virginia Kraft was deadly with a rifle and penned epic, deeply reported features. Among the most important sports journalists of her time, the pioneering adventure writer chiseled early cracks into publishing’s male-dominated world. So why hasn’t anyone heard of her?
READ MOREFor more than 50 years, less-lethal munitions like rubber bullets, bean-bag rounds, pepper balls, and tear gas canisters have injured, disfigured, and killed people. Don’t look away; the victims have built a powerful case against these weapons.
READ MOREMonths before the U.S. Capitol insurrection, COVID skeptics resisting Germany’s public health measures stormed the Reichstag. The story of that day and its consequences — as told by those involved — is a true tale of misinformation, its causes and its effects.
READ MOREOnly a few people — all men — have dived deeper than Alenka Artnik on just one breath. And soon, she may surpass them all. This immersive profile recounts how she emerged from obscurity and mental health struggles to become one of the world’s most elite athletes.
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