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Where is Austin Tice?: The escapeThe search for journalist Austin Tice, focusing on his “escape” from Syrian regime custody and conflicting evidence about whether he remained alive after 2012.29 Sep 2026 · 37 min
Where is Austin Tice?: A meeting in MuskatThe Austin Tice hostage case in Syria, focusing on secret U.S.-Syrian negotiations and a later meeting in Muscat, Oman, amid broader frustrations with hostage recovery and shifting U.S. Syria policy.24 Sep 2026 · 40 min
Where is Austin Tice?: The videoThe episode investigates the 2012 Austin Tice hostage video, arguing it was staged in Syrian regime-controlled territory and exploring who in the Assad media apparatus may have orchestrated it, and…21 Sep 2026 · 31 min
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Where is Austin Tice?: The escapeThe search for journalist Austin Tice, focusing on his “escape” from Syrian regime custody and conflicting evidence about whether he remained alive after 2012.29 Sep 2026 · 37 min · 14 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: A meeting in MuskatThe Austin Tice hostage case in Syria, focusing on secret U.S.-Syrian negotiations and a later meeting in Muscat, Oman, amid broader frustrations with hostage recovery and shifting U.S. Syria policy.24 Sep 2026 · 40 min · 17 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: The videoThe episode investigates the 2012 Austin Tice hostage video, arguing it was staged in Syrian regime-controlled territory and exploring who in the Assad media apparatus may have orchestrated it, and…21 Sep 2026 · 31 min · 17 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: The driverAustin Tice’s disappearance in Damascus—how he got into the city, where he was held, and who may have betrayed him via his driver.17 Sep 2026 · 42 min · 17 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: The American journalistThe disappearance of American journalist Austin Tice in Damascus (since summer 2012), using Syrian intelligence files and on-the-ground reporting to determine who detained him and where.15 Sep 2026 · 31 min · 10 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: A black boxThe search for missing American journalist Austin Tice in Syria, framed by the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the discovery of secret detention sites and records, including “Palestine Branch” (Syrian…10 Sep 2026 · 41 min · 19 chapters
Where is Austin Tice?: We believe he’s aliveAustin Tice, an American journalist and former U.S. Marine, disappeared in Syria in 2012.8 Sep 2026 · 33 min · 9 chapters
Introducing “Where is Austin Tice?” from NPR and the BBCThe episode introduces NPR and BBC’s “Where is Austin Tice?” focused on the 2012 disappearance of Austin Tice, a former U.S.1 Sep 2026 · 2 min · 1 chapter
We Keep Us Safe: Circles of SilenceFinal episode of NPR’s Embedded/We Keep Us Safe about the killing of 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr.30 Jul 2026 · 48 min · 19 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: The SentinelsInvestigation into CHOP volunteer security “Sentinels” and who killed Antonio during the June 29, 2020 shooting; episode focuses on identifying Sentinel codenames and new video/audio evidence.16 Jul 2026 · 41 min · 17 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: Inside the White JeepThis episode of We Keep Us Safe focuses on the night Antonio Mays Jr.16 Jul 2026 · 36 min · 16 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: The ChaseThe CHOP shooting in Seattle that killed Antonio Mays Jr. and critically wounded Robert West, and how new video evidence challenges the prevailing narrative of “protesters shooting in self-defense”…9 Jul 2026 · 37 min · 15 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: Pocket’s WorldThe episode of We Keep Us Safe (Pocket’s World) examines how rumors about Antonio Mays Jr.2 Jul 2026 · 39 min · 12 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: This Ain’t CoachellaEpisode 3 of We Keep Us Safe examines how Seattle’s CHOP shifted from a “police-free” mutual-aid community into a militarized, increasingly dangerous zone.25 Jun 2026 · 35 min · 24 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: The StandoffThe episode reconstructs how a Seattle police-protester standoff around the East Precinct helped create CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) and set conditions that later led to the fatal shooting of…18 Jun 2026 · 39 min · 20 chapters
We Keep Us Safe: Who Killed Antonio Mays Jr.?The 2020 CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) shooting that killed 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr., and the competing narratives about whether protesters acted in self-defense; the episode previews an…11 Jun 2026 · 35 min · 18 chapters
Introducing "We Keep Us Safe" from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle TimesThe NPR/KUOW/Seattle Times series “We Keep Us Safe” investigates Seattle’s CHOP zone in 2020—an eight-block, police-free protest area after police abandoned a precinct—focusing on how it shifted from…4 Jun 2026 · 3 min · 3 chapters
The Girls: “This is my story to tell”The fourth and final episode of NPR’s Embedded about Louisville’s “The Girls” (Dig season 3), focusing on accusers’ fight for accountability in the alleged child sexual abuse case against Ronnie…21 May 2026 · 57 min · 28 chapters
The Girls: “If it was your daughter”A third installment in “The Girls” about alleged child sexual abuse by Ronnie Stoner and how Arielle Stoner says multiple systems failed her after she reported it to police.21 May 2026 · 48 min · 24 chapters
The Girls: “This isn’t ringing alarms to y’all?”The “Dig” episode (The Girls) investigates alleged child sex abuse by Louisville-area educator Ronnie Stoner and how multiple systems (school district, CPS, and record-keeping) failed to stop him…14 May 2026 · 44 min · 28 chapters
The Girls: “I need to tell you something”Dig (NPR) “The Girls: ‘I need to tell you something’” is about alleged child sexual abuse by Louisville, Kentucky educator/football coaches Ronnie and Donnie Stoner (twins) and how schools, law…14 May 2026 · 34 min · 22 chapters
The Network: Pivoting as mifepristone access shiftsHow the U.S. Supreme Court decision could limit prescribing mifepristone via telehealth, and how abortion-pill access networks are pivoting to keep medication abortion available by mail.7 May 2026 · 4 min · 3 chapters
Alternate Realities: Double or NothingFollow-up to NPR’s “Alternate Realities” about Zach Mack’s father’s conspiracy-theory “bet” (10 predictions for 2024).23 Dec 2025 · 31 min · 10 chapters
The Harvard Plan: The Endless FrontierThis episode (the final one in The Harvard Plan series) explains how the Trump administration tried to reshape U.S.1 Dec 2025 · 50 min · 22 chapters