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Reveal: Deja Nuke – Return of the Nuclear Threat

On Jan. 25, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists edged the “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight. It’s a representation of how close the world is to the potential of a nuclear apocalypse. So, how far are we...

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Reveal: Warning System Down: California’s Deadliest Fires

It used to be that there was a discrete wildfire season, a period of time where fire risk was highest. Throughout the country, that season is getting longer, and in many places now, wildfire season is...

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Reveal: The kids aren’t all right

Federal law requires colleges and universities to track and disclose sexual assaults on campus. It’s different for kindergarten through 12th grade, where there are no similar requirements for cases...

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Reveal: Where criminals get their guns

Across the country, criminals are arming themselves in unexpected ways. In Florida, they’re stealing guns from unlocked cars and gun stores. In other places, they’re getting them from the police...

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Reveal – Poisoned, evicted, ignored: The perils of living with lead

Old paint, old pipes and demolition dust often are sources of toxic lead. It’s a poison known to cause neurological damage in children. For adults, new science shows lead exposure increases the risk of...

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Reveal: Checking into President Trump’s Washington DC Hotel

In 2016, the Justice Department alleged that Malaysian officials stole billions of dollars from their people and funneled some of it through the United States. Reveal teamed up with Washington D.C.’s...

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Reveal: Tesla and beyond: Hidden problems of Silicon Valley

With Silicon Valley under the microscope for not living up to its idealistic hype, this week’s episode of Reveal investigates tech companies on the cutting edge that are struggling to solve...

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Reveal: Trumping Hate

There’s been a lot of conversation about whether Donald Trump has inspired a new wave of hate in America. Reveal reporter Will Carless set out to understand the president’s role in hundreds of hate...

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Reveal: More to the Story: Redlining, Wildfires and Trump’s Mansion

Reveal digs deep – and gets results. This week’s episode shines a light on the consequences of some recent investigations. Photo illustration by Michael Schiller/Reveal By mining data from 31 million...

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Reveal Presents: The View from Room 205

In 2014, WBEZ Chicago reporter Linda Lutton followed a class of fourth-graders at William Penn Elementary school on Chicago’s West Side. It’s a community where two-thirds of schools have closed, been...

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Reveal: Across the Desert and the Sea

African migrants fleeing persecution or seeking opportunity often end up in Libya, where they are tortured and trafficked. Many try to escape to Europe, only to be intercepted at sea and returned to...

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Reveal: What cops aren’t learning

Some police departments are embracing tactics designed to reduce the use of force – and prevent shootings. Rather than rushing in aggressively, officers back off, wait out people in crisis and use...

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Episode name: Reveal Answers Your Questions About Immigration

Last fall, we threw out a simple question after a show about U.S. immigration policies: What do you wish you knew about immigration? Across the country, listeners responded with hundreds of text...

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Reveal: Losing Ground

Farming while black Picture an American farmer. Chances are, the farmer you’re imagining is white – more than 9 out of 10 American farmers today are. But historically, African Americans played a huge...

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Reveal: Hunting the Ghost Fleet

This week’s episode of Reveal investigates shark fishing in Central America and a U.S.-based seafood company that claims to be a model of sustainability. We start in the jungles of El Salvador, where...

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Reveal: Behind Trump’s Energy Dominance

President Donald Trump has pledged allegiance to what he calls America’s “energy dominance.” This is good news for the oil and gas industry. We examine what this means for Alaskan villagers coping with...

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Reveal: Hate on the march: White nationalism in the Trump era

This week on Reveal, the mixed signals the Trump administration is giving on racial discrimination and violence, and the message they send to extremist hate groups. […]

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Reveal – Follow the money: citizen sleuths investigate

Update, Aug. 26, 2017: On this episode of Reveal, we introduce #citizensleuth – a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity. The project aims to answer […]

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Reveal: The Perfect Storm

Harvey has wreaked havoc on Houston, causing unprecedented rainfall and thousands of evacuations. Last year, Reveal teamed up with the Texas Tribune to investigate why America’s […]

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Reveal – Running from cops: From the streets to the courts

By Reveal staff – In cities across America, African American men are on the run. In April 2015, 25-year-old Freddie Gray made eye contact with a […]

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Reveal: Rise of the new German Right

In just a few days, Germans will go to the polls to vote for a new government in an election that feels strangely familiar. For decades, […]

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Reveal: Street fight: A new wave of political violence

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, Americans have increasingly turned to the streets to share opinions about the president and his policies. These tensions reached a boiling point […]

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Reveal: Does the time fit the crime?

This week on Reveal, we take a look at prisons as a part of our series And Justice for Some. Image: Ben Fine for Reveal. The number […]

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Reveal: All work, no play. Life at a rehab work camp.

Desperate to reduce crowding in jails and prisons, court systems all over the country are trying diversion – alternatives to putting offenders behind bars. On today’s […]

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Reveal: Access Denied: The Fight for Public Education

The idea behind public education is simple: A community pays into a system that aims to create a bright future for the next generation. Years pass, […]

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Reveal: Too Many Pills

Drug overdoses now are the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, largely thanks to a surge in opioid use. Although heroin and fentanyl have […]

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Reveal: Inside Trump’s immigration crackdown

This week on Reveal, we examine U.S. immigration policies that affect millions of people who live illegally in the United States. We hear from families and […]

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Reveal: The Paradise Papers

Remember the Panama Papers? It was a massive 2015 document leak that exposed a system in which offshore companies enable crime and corruption. The Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

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Reveal: Pizzagate – A slice of fake news

This week, Reveal teams up with Rolling Stone and The Investigative Fund to explore how fake news starts, snowballs and sometimes erupts into gunfire. The conspiracy […]

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Reveal: Her own devices: Is a contraceptive implant making us sick?

UPDATE: Since our show first aired, Bayer, the manufacturer of the Essure contraceptive, has withdrawn the product from all overseas markets. This means that the product […]

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Reveal: Where criminals get their guns

Across the country, criminals are arming themselves in unexpected ways. In Florida, they’re stealing guns from unlocked cars and gun stores. In other places, they’re getting […]

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Reveal: The Pentagon Papers – Secrets, lies and leaks, revisited

As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s meddling of U.S. elections intensifies, we’re revisiting a story that still echoes in Washington’s halls of power: the […]

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Reveal: The Tide is High

Last year saw the most destructive Atlantic hurricane season on record. As climate change pushes ocean temperatures ever higher, scientists predict storms will continue growing more […]

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Reveal: The Mystery of Mountain Jane Doe

The mystery of Mountain Jane Doe By Reveal staff In rural Kentucky, a cold case is reopened after 45 years, and investigators dig up an unidentified […]

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Reveal: #MeToo: Rape on the Night Shift

As the #MeToo movement sweeps across Hollywood, Washington and the world of media, it’s easy to ignore the sexual abuse of women in low-profile jobs. This […]

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Reveal: Too Many Pills

Drug overdoses now are the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, largely thanks to a surge in opioid use. Although heroin and fentanyl have […]

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Reveal: How Bernie Made Off: Are we ready for the next Ponzi scheme?

It’s been a decade since former NASDAQ chairman Bernie Madoff was arrested for committing one of the largest financial crimes in U.S. history. For decades he […]

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Reveal: Dropped and dismissed: Child sex abuse lost in the system

In light of the conviction of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, we’re revisiting an award-winning investigation from 2016. Reporter Tennessee Watson says she was sexually […]

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Reveal: The red line: Racial disparities in lending

Forty years ago, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, which required banks to lend to qualified borrowers in blighted neighborhoods. The act aimed to eliminate government-sponsored […]

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Reveal: My Town, Chi Town

Since 2000, a quarter-million black Chicagoans have left the city. The reasons for this reverse migration include decades of bad policy and broken promises on affordable […]

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