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  • 3 key moments that led to the U.S.-Iran war

    3 key moments that led to the U.S.-Iran war
    2026/03/12
    Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the fraught moment we're in today. This episode originally ran in 2019 as Rules of Engagement. You can find more of Throughline's coverage into the origins of the conflict in the Middle East here.

    Guests:
    Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    Michael Eisenstadt, director of the Washington Institute's military and security studies program

    Kim Zetter, writer for WIRED magazine and author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

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    48 分
  • Everyone should have a voice

    Everyone should have a voice
    2026/03/10
    The story of Frederick Douglass’s fight for universal suffrage from the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow.

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    22 分
  • Iran and the Jewish people: An alliance before war

    Iran and the Jewish people: An alliance before war
    2026/03/05
    Israel and Iran have been in almost constant conflict for nearly 50 years. Media tends to frame the violence as endemic, and inevitable — but it’s not.

    Between the creation of Israel in 1948 and Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, the countries cooperated, if cautiously. And the bridge between them was one of the largest and oldest Jewish populations in the Middle East: a thriving community of Iranian Jews.

    Today on the show, the story of Iran and Israel, told through the life of Jewish Iranian Habib Elghanain.

    Guests:

    Roya Hakakian    , author of Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    Shahrzad Elghanayan, author of Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad - My Grandfather's Life

    Meir Javedanfar, Israeli-Iranian political scientist and teacher at Reichman University

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    52 分
  • We the People, Redefined

    We the People, Redefined
    2026/03/03
    When the 14th amendment was ratified after the Civil War, it redefined what it meant to be an American. Today on the show, we bring you the story of how the 14th amendment was created, and the intention behind equal protection for all.


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    19 分
  • Why Super PACs have more power than ever in elections

    Why Super PACs have more power than ever in elections
    2026/02/26
    What’s one thing people across the U.S. can agree on? Hint – it’s about money. Voters from all political parties overwhelmingly see unlimited spending in elections as a threat to our democracy. So if most people don’t like all this money in politics, then who does? The answer, on this episode of Throughline.

    This episode has been updated to eliminate an audio glitch.

    Guests:

    Michael Kang, Class of 1940 Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

    Henrik Schatzinger, professor of political science at Ripon College and author of forthcoming book Super PACs in the City: How Outside Money is Reshaping Local Elections

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    50 分
  • How the Civil War changed how we vote

    How the Civil War changed how we vote
    2026/02/24
    When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing the terms of peace, he was risking his own political future and forcing the nation to confront what its democracy really stood for. On this week’s episode, how the presidential election of 1864 changed the way we vote and who we are as a country.


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    16 分
  • Who profits from migrant detention?

    Who profits from migrant detention?
    2026/02/19
    The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s been offered up as a source of revenue for over a century, beginning with the first contracts between the federal government and sheriffs along the Canadian border. This episode originally published in September 2025.

    Guest:

    Brianna Nofil, assistant professor of history at The College of William and Mary author of The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration

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    50 分
  • The lasting legacy of the slave patrols

    The lasting legacy of the slave patrols
    2026/02/17
    To this day, America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery. On this week’s episode, we explore the creation of slave patrols, which were created to control the movement of enslaved Black people in the 1700s, and how those patrols shaped American society and modern policing. To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline.

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    17 分