TWO REPORTERS
David K. Shipler & Daniel Zwerdling have spent their lives investigating thorny and neglected issues, winning journalism’s top awards along the way. Now join Dave and Danny on TWO REPORTERS, as they interview stellar guests about pressing social problems and solutions - and just fascinating stuff - in ways you haven’t heard before. Advisory: Episodes may contain laughing, arguing and moments of irreverence.
Podcasting since 2021 • 98 episodes
TWO REPORTERS
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Will Trump really be able to mess with elections? He's trying.
Trump is calling on Congressional Republicans to "nationalize" elections. His Justice Department is suing states to get their voter rolls. Trump's FBI has raided election centers. Trump's allies are installing election deniers on state votin...
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Are you kidding? We have debtors' prisons in America?? / From the archive
The US government outlawed debtors' prisons in the 1830s, the Supreme Court ruled they're unconstitutional more than 40 years ago, and you'll find sentences like this on the internet: "Today it is illegal to put someone in prison because of ...
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Can you guess which country has the worst death rate of almost any wealthy nation? Hint: America.
So much for the "greatest country on earth." Recent studies show that if Americans died at the same rate as people do in average European countries, which Trump derides, at least half a million Americans who die each year would likely have l...
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Think you could never confess to a murder you didn't commit? Think again
America's prisons house a "staggering number" of convicts who didn't commit the crime but said under duress that they did - so says our guest, lawyer Alan Hirsch, who testifies in trials across the country as one of the leading expert witnes...
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Trump lies about his accomplishments - and these famous Polar explorers did, too / From the archive
When you learned in school about the fabled drama of Robert E. Peary and Frederick Cook - how they raced each other to be the first explorer to reach the North Pole - did your teachers explain that this was an early example where public fi...
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