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Big Story Podcast: Triage – Healthcare in the U.S.
The U.S. stands at the forefront of medical innovation, but this progress comes at a staggering cost. Exorbitant bills often push people to choose between their health or financial ruin. 'Triage:…
Big Story Podcast: Loaded – Guns In Thailand
Thailand is grappling with an unsettling trend: a rise in homegrown gun violence and mass shootings. Big Story’s senior correspondent Jason Motlagh talks to survivors and experts trying to make sense…
Big Story Podcast: Red Light – Racial Violence in the U.S.
In Louisiana, a police chase ends with the death of an unarmed black man, Ronald Greene. In Mississippi, Rasheem Carter’s body is found in the woods one month after his disappearance under mysterious…
Big Story Podcast: Dead End — Drug Overdoses in the U.S.
Portland, Oregon, is an epicenter of the deepening opioid crisis in the United States, where a life is lost to drug use every eleven minutes. Fentanyl, a cheap and highly potent synthetic opioid up…
Big Story Podcast: Toxic – U.S. Chemical Warfare In Vietnam
Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S. sprayed 20 million gallons of an herbicide known as Agent Orange over Vietnam. The purpose was to decimate the canopy of the native jungle and gain a military…
Big Story Podcast: Buried – U.S. Bombs In Laos
Tiny Laos has the sad distinction of being the most bombed country in history because of an overt military intervention by the U.S. During the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration dropped more than…
Big Story Podcast: Children Of The Border
Dozens of children in western Venezuela begin their daily journey to school before 5 a.m. But this is no ordinary school – it is located across the border in Colombia. They live in the Guajira…
S1E10 Big Story Podcast: Lawless – Gangs Of Haiti
Haiti is a broken state. Since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, street gangs armed with military grade weapons from the US have filled the power vacuum, taking control of 90…
S1E9 Big Story Podcast: Coca Growers
Since declaring the War on Drugs fifty years ago, the US has spent billions in Colombia to fight cocaine. The result: more cocaine than ever before, and a black market that fuels corruption, and…
S1E8 Big Story Podcast: Homeless – Inequality In The U.S.
San Francisco: From the Gold Rush boom to the Silicon Valley era, California’s “city by the bay” has long symbolized the prosperity of the American West, and the promise of new beginnings. Today,…
S1E7 Big Story Podcast: The Endless Harvest
The Endless Harvest is a compilation of stories from all over the world showing us that sustainable growth is not only possible but actually happening. In Florida, an NGO is linking with several…
S1E6 Big Story Podcast: Coping With Long COVID
Coping With Long COVID tells the story of three patients suffering from ongoing conditions after initially being infected with the COVID-19 virus. Each has a particular set of symptoms and wide-range…
S1E5 Big Story Podcast: The Race Gap – Asian Americans
Racism against Asian Americans has been largely underreported until recently. But anti-Asian sentiment has existed in the U.S. for centuries. In this Big Story podcast, we travel to San Francisco to…
S1E4 Big Story Podcast: The Race Gap – African Americans
In the mid-1950’s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional. But more than 50 years later many black students in New York City are still feeling the effects…
S1E3 Big Story Podcast: The Red Line
St. Louis, Missouri was once one of America’s most industrialized cities. Industry drew many new residents, including a large number of African Americans. But today, St. Louis has become a hub of…
S1E2 Big Story Podcast: Abandoned – Afghanistan after the U.S. Occupation
In 2001, when the U.S. led an invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country had less than 50 miles of paved roads. The U.S. helped invest billions to create a new Ring Road connecting…
S1E1 Big Story Podcast: Remembering Sandy Hook
Big Story launches its podcast series with ‘Unbearable – Sandy Hook 10 years later’, an examination of the elementary school shooting that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults. The shooting…
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