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"I think with true crime, it creates this thirst for punishment."

On this week’s “More To The Story,” incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon examines how our fixation on crime capitalizes on tragedy and turns it into entertainment.
Why America is obsessed with true crime
On this week’s “More To The Story,” incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon examines how our fixation on crime capitalizes on tragedy and turns it into entertainment.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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KYUK plays a singular role in the media landscape of the United States. over the coming weeks, we'll go from 10 full time staff down to 4. this is my last week at KYUK. listen here →
First, an earthquake hit Alaska. Then it was a typhoon. People turned to public radio for lifesaving information. Sen. Lisa Murkowski tried to get her colleagues to understand the importance of stations.

They voted to defund public media anyway.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
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November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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First, an earthquake hit Alaska. Then it was a typhoon. People turned to public radio for lifesaving information. Sen. Lisa Murkowski tried to get her colleagues to understand the importance of stations.

They voted to defund public media anyway.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
revealnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn street in 2001. In prison, he reckoned with his crime and became a nationally known writer while behind bars.

He talks with @alletson.bsky.social from Sing Sing Correctional Facility on this week’s “More To The Story.”

Listen here: tinyurl.com/382sdab9
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“We have a criminal justice system in which the courtroom and the sentence are so far removed from the lived experience of the condemned."

On this week's More To The Story, Death Row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood discusses capital punishment, his activism, and nitrogen gas executions in the US.
Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them. - Reveal
On this week’s “More To The Story,” death row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood talks about how his longtime activism for racial justice led him inside America’s execution chambers for the final moments of ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Who’s Jeff Hood?

He’s a priest, an ordained minister, a Black Lives Matter activist, and someone who has witnessed more executions than almost anyone in the US.

A look inside America’s execution chambers on this week’s “More To The Story.”
Executions Are Rising in the US. This Reverend Witnesses Them. - Reveal
On this week’s “More To The Story,” death row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood talks about how his longtime activism for racial justice led him inside America’s execution chambers for the final moments of ...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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In 2023, deputies tortured two Black men in Mississippi before shooting one of them in the mouth. And this wasn’t the first time they’d done something like this.

This week, we uncover the “Goon Squad” and its years-long reign of terror in Rankin County.
How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality
A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Earlier this year, Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley fled to Canada.

Why? Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

🎧 Listen to our latest More To The Story: tinyurl.com/5v2x48ah
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale professor Jason Stanley has been taking a lot of heat for moving to Canada. Why?

Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

🎧 Listen here: apple.co/3Ln4Qb0
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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America had a Black president. Then came the whitelash.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” @jelaniya.bsky.social traces the tumultuous throughline from Trayvon Martin to the rise of white nationalism and reexamines Barack Obama’s legacy in the age of Trump.

Listen: apple.co/4htSQ3i
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Allow us to interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you our newest series:

✨Inconsequential Investigations ✨

This week, our reporters are tackling three personal mysteries: A mysterious midnight phone call, a missing film, and a doppelganger 🧵
Serious investigations into deeply unserious questions
Hear the first in our occasional series of “inconsequential investigations.”
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October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Are you disappointed by news coverage of the rallies this weekend? Do you wish a great podcast had gone out to really share the voices and sounds of that day? @alletson.bsky.social has you covered with this amazing episode of More To The Story from @revealnews.org. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Some had creative posters. Others wore inflatable costumes. But all of them told @alletson.bsky.social they feared for the direction of the country under President Trump.

Conversations with No Kings protesters on this week’s “More To The Story.”

Listen here: tinyurl.com/2xkj573y
October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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"I am probably the most apolitical person in America because I was separated from all of you, and I was told that I was worthless and that I would be put to death."

Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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SURVEILLANCE SECRETS: @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.
A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Don't believe Trump's claims about "violent antifa" at today's #NoKings protests.

More To The Story host @alletson.bsky.social and Reveal's producer @karamcguirkallison.bsky.social joined thousands of others in DC.

Here's what they saw.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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How did a climate change curmudgeon become an unexpected optimist? Two words: solar power.

On @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” environmental activist @billmckibben.bsky.social talks about why harnessing the sun is our best chance to rein in the effects of climate change.
How a climate doomsayer became an unexpected optimist
On this week’s “More To The Story,” environmentalist Bill McKibben examines how the remarkable rise of solar power could (finally) begin to slow climate change.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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@billmckibben.bsky.social is a long-time environmental activist whose outlook on climate change has been described as “dark realism.”

Now, he’s painting a much sunnier picture about the future of our planet thanks to the remarkable rise of solar power.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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“I am extremely pessimistic about what would happen if we allowed Silicon Valley to keep building the technology the way that they want to."

We sat down with @karenhao.bsky.social to talk about OpenAI's rapid rise on this week’s “More To The Story.”

Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm
October 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM