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You’ve been overwhelmed with headlines all week – what's worth a closer look? One Thing takes you beyond the headlines and helps make sense of what everyone is talking about. Host David Rind talks to experts, reporters on the front lines and the real people impacted by the news about what they've learned – and why it matters. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

Episode Date
A GOP Trump Critic Wants Others to Speak Out. Will They Listen?
Jun 04, 2025
Under RFK Jr.’s HHS, Who Decides the Facts?
Jun 01, 2025
Congress Makes the Case for Crypto
May 28, 2025
‘Total Disaster’: Why Some Fear Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
May 25, 2025
How Trump Clouded America’s Weather Forecasting
May 21, 2025
What to Expect When You’re Expecting More Tariffs
May 18, 2025
Trump, a Newborn, and Her Parents' Birthright Fight
May 14, 2025
Air Traffic, Out of Control?
May 11, 2025
Conclave Watch: The Book That 'Pope Pilled’ The Internet
May 09, 2025
Conclave Watch: An American Pope
May 08, 2025
Conclave Watch: We Have a Nope
May 08, 2025
A Beginner’s Guide to the Papal Conclave
May 07, 2025
Why It’s So Easy to Fall for Conspiracy Theories
May 04, 2025
Americans Are Souring on Trump. Does He Care?
Apr 30, 2025
Is Horse Racing on Its Last Legs?
Apr 27, 2025
Why Trump is Sticking with Hegseth (For Now)
Apr 23, 2025
Remembering Pope Francis
Apr 21, 2025
They Got Into Dream Schools. Trump Got Involved. Now What?
Apr 20, 2025
The US-El Salvador Deportation Deal, Explained
Apr 16, 2025
Inside Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Health Research Cuts
Apr 13, 2025
How Trump’s Tariff Trade War Could Hit You
Apr 09, 2025
The Hidden Costs of Trump’s National Parks Cuts
Apr 06, 2025
This Group Has a ‘Deportation List.’ Is the Government Reading It?
Apr 02, 2025
Why Musk Is Pouring Millions into Wisconsin
Mar 30, 2025
Trump’s DEI Data Purge
Mar 26, 2025
Tesla in Trouble
Mar 23, 2025
If a Judge Says It, Do You Have to Do It?
Mar 19, 2025
Can You Be Deported for What You Say?
Mar 16, 2025
Why Government Cuts Are About to Ramp Up
Mar 12, 2025
Will ‘Don’t Give Up’ Cut It for Democrats?
Mar 09, 2025
In MAGA Country, Musk Has Free Rein (For Now)
Mar 05, 2025
Measles was Considered Eliminated. But It’s Spreading in Texas.
Mar 02, 2025
Boycotts, DEI, and Trump 2.0 Resistance
Feb 26, 2025
‘This Shouldn’t Be Their Reality’: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Feb 23, 2025
What Elon Musk Sees in Germany’s Far-Right
Feb 19, 2025
Bird Flu Isn’t Trump’s Fault. But It’s His Problem.
Feb 16, 2025
When Trump and Musk Meet Checks and Balances
Feb 12, 2025
The Real-Life Impact of DOGE’s Cuts
Feb 09, 2025
Musk and Trump Take a Wrecking Ball to DC
Feb 05, 2025
More Planes, Fewer Air Traffic Controllers: Recipe for Disaster?
Feb 02, 2025
Trump’s ‘America First’ Agenda Meets China’s AI Advancement
Jan 29, 2025
The Movement Behind Trump’s DEI Takedown
Jan 26, 2025
Trump Floods the Zone. Here’s What Matters.
Jan 22, 2025
Federal Workers Prepare for Trump, Musk, and Uncertainty
Jan 19, 2025
How Long Will the Gaza Deal Stop the Fighting?
Jan 17, 2025
How Serious is Trump About the Panama Canal?
Jan 15, 2025
'Is That Really My House?’: The L.A. Fires
Jan 12, 2025
The Case For (And Against) Banning TikTok
Jan 08, 2025
New Orleans, ISIS, and 2025’s Violent Start
Jan 05, 2025
Remembering Jimmy Carter
Dec 29, 2024
Elon Musk, Bans and Free Speech: What Happens Next?
Dec 29, 2024
What The Holidays Look Like After Hurricane Helene
Dec 22, 2024
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s...Probably Not a Drone
Dec 18, 2024
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Moms Behind RFK Jr.
Dec 15, 2024
Syria Is Free of Assad. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Dec 11, 2024
A Health Insurance CEO is Dead. Not Everyone Is Sad.
Dec 08, 2024
Meet the Trans Lawyer Making History at the Supreme Court
Dec 04, 2024
Deepfake Revenge Porn Is Rising: What Can You Do?
Dec 01, 2024
What a Banana Can Tell Us About Trump’s Second Term
Nov 27, 2024
72 Hours of Escalation in Ukraine
Nov 24, 2024
Gaetz, the GOP, and Trump’s Trickiest Nomination
Nov 20, 2024
The ‘Mind-blowing’ Potential Impacts of Trump’s Border Policy
Nov 17, 2024
After Trump’s Win, the 4B Movement Goes Viral In the US
Nov 13, 2024
He Never Voted Republican. Trump 2024 Changed That.
Nov 10, 2024
Do Democrats Need to Rip Up Their Political Playbook?
Nov 08, 2024
Trump Storms Back to the White House
Nov 06, 2024
Inside the Final Days of the 2024 Campaign
Nov 03, 2024
Why Philadelphia Fortified Its Vote Counting Center
Oct 30, 2024
They Were Prolific Donors. They Also Had Dementia.
Oct 27, 2024
Why Elon Musk Is All In on Donald Trump
Oct 23, 2024
The Limits of China’s ‘Panda Diplomacy’
Oct 20, 2024
Inside Harris’ Pitch to Black Men
Oct 16, 2024
Assessing the Damage of Trump-Fueled Hurricane Misinformation
Oct 13, 2024
'The Apprentice’ Director Ali Abbasi Wants to Piss Off Both Sides
Oct 11, 2024
Another Hurricane Is Coming. But Helene Is Still Hurting.
Oct 09, 2024
How October 7th Paved the Way for a Widening War
Oct 06, 2024
Midwest Vice: The Vance-Walz Debate
Oct 02, 2024
Understanding the Latino Vote
Sep 29, 2024
Three Mile Island Is Reopening. Some Climate Scientists are Thrilled.
Sep 25, 2024
The Controversial Measures Fueling El Salvador's 'Reverse Migration'
Sep 22, 2024
The Challenge of Securing an Increasingly Violent Election
Sep 18, 2024
No Phones in Class. It’s The Law Here Now.
Sep 15, 2024
Trump Takes the Bait
Sep 11, 2024
The Laws Making It Harder to Vote
Sep 08, 2024
A Hostage’s Brother’s Plea: ‘We Need Several Miracles’
Sep 04, 2024
Trump vs. Harris on the Issues That Matter to Voters
Sep 01, 2024
Social Media Scrutiny: Telegram, X, & the AI Election
Aug 28, 2024
What The Realtor Rule Changes Mean for You
Aug 25, 2024
The Harris Coalition Converges on Chicago
Aug 21, 2024
Why Ukraine’s Cross-Border Gamble is Paying Off
Aug 18, 2024
Trump’s 2024 ‘X’ Factor: His New Opponent
Aug 14, 2024
Two Astronauts. One Space Station. No End in Sight.
Aug 11, 2024
The Stock Market Panicked. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t.
Aug 07, 2024
The Messy Business of ‘Cleaning’ Voter Rolls
Aug 04, 2024
Did Israel Just Kill a Key Ceasefire Negotiator?
Aug 01, 2024
Maduro Claims Victory in Venezuela. Just Don’t Ask for Proof.
Jul 31, 2024
Power Lines for the Left Behind
Jul 28, 2024
A Golden Olympic Opportunity in Paris
Jul 24, 2024
Biden Bows Out. Will Democrats Embrace Harris?
Jul 22, 2024
The Israeli Prime Minister and a High-Stakes DC Visit
Jul 21, 2024
The Election (and America) After the Assassination Attempt
Jul 17, 2024
Trump Survives Assassination Attempt (Plus, Latest on GOP Platform)
Jul 14, 2024
Airbnb’s Hidden Camera Problem
Jul 10, 2024
The Global Impact of France’s Lurch to the Far Right
Jul 07, 2024
What America’s ‘Best Towns to Visit’ Have in Common
Jul 03, 2024
Why SCOTUS Is Saving Trump Immunity for Last
Jun 30, 2024
Some Dems Hit the Panic Button After Biden's Very Bad Night
Jun 28, 2024
Backstage Before the CNN Presidential Debate
Jun 26, 2024
Why a US-Mexico Water War Is Heating Up
Jun 23, 2024
A Plan to Diversify the Workforce: Ditch the Four-Year Degree
Jun 19, 2024
What Should Happen to the Detained Children of ISIS?
Jun 16, 2024
The Conviction of Hunter Biden
Jun 12, 2024
Your 2024 Election Media Guide
Jun 09, 2024
Trump is Guilty. Now What?
Jun 02, 2024
What Diddy’s Downfall Says About the Legacy of #MeToo
May 26, 2024
Will Michael Cohen’s Credibility Swing the Trump Trial?
May 19, 2024
RFK Jr. Says He Won’t Be a Spoiler. Is Anyone Buying It?
May 12, 2024
The Financial Reality Behind Campus Calls to Divest
May 05, 2024
Did #BringBackOurGirls Teach the Wrong Lessons?
Apr 28, 2024
Coral Reefs, Cooked: A Climate Change Case Study
Apr 21, 2024
Your Guide to Trump’s Historic First Criminal Trial
Apr 14, 2024
America’s Moment in the (Eclipsed) Sun
Apr 07, 2024
What Tennessee Can Tell Us About Our Extreme Politics
Mar 31, 2024
Will SCOTUS Shelve Medication Abortion?
Mar 24, 2024
How Haiti’s Gangs Pushed Out the Prime Minister
Mar 17, 2024
Hollywood Promised Increased Inclusion. Jews Say They Were Left Out.
Mar 10, 2024
Inside a Fentanyl State of Emergency
Mar 03, 2024
Two Years Later, Ukraine is Running Out of Ammo. Is Hope Next?
Feb 25, 2024
Why These Older Voters Don’t Mind Having the Age Conversation
Feb 18, 2024
Is the Economy Really Booming? Gen Z Isn’t So Sure.
Feb 11, 2024
Will the Supreme Court Disqualify Donald Trump?
Feb 04, 2024
The Train Derailed. The Aftermath Divided the Town.
Jan 28, 2024
Why Trump Isn’t Taking New Hampshire for Granite
Jan 21, 2024
Meet the Iowans Who Could Swing Caucus Night
Jan 14, 2024
In 2024, the US Southern Border is Everywhere
Jan 07, 2024
From The Assignment: Trump’s Second Term Plans
Dec 31, 2023
The Things We Missed in 2023
Dec 24, 2023
Can Ukraine Beat Russia on a Budget?
Dec 17, 2023
Rap Lyrics & RICO: Young Thug on Trial
Dec 10, 2023
Anderson Cooper on Loss, Grief, and Covering War in Israel
Dec 03, 2023
Cloud Computing: How AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
Nov 26, 2023
The Border Crisis in Their Backyards
Nov 19, 2023
How Should We Dress for ‘Fire Weather’?
Nov 12, 2023
Inside Biden’s Israel Balancing Act
Nov 05, 2023
From Flips to Fines: Inside Donald Trump’s Very Bad Legal Week
Oct 29, 2023
Florida’s Book Ban Playbook: Read the Racy Parts
Oct 22, 2023
Witnessing a Week of War in Israel
Oct 15, 2023
The Unfinished Lives of American Gun Violence
Oct 08, 2023
Your Burning Hunter Biden Questions, Answered
Oct 01, 2023
Inside Russia’s Post-Prigozhin Plans in Africa
Sep 24, 2023
Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Our New Covid Calculation
Sep 17, 2023
Is the Driverless Car Revolution Stuck in Reverse?
Sep 10, 2023
Flag on the Sport: Football’s Safety Reckoning
Sep 03, 2023
Scenes from a (Trump-less) GOP Debate
Aug 27, 2023
What is Maui After the Fires?
Aug 20, 2023
Hollywood’s Strike Season is Ripe for Adaptation
Aug 13, 2023
Why the Third Trump Indictment is the Most Serious Yet
Aug 06, 2023
Weight Loss Drugs: Trend or Treatment?
Jul 30, 2023
Welcome to Hot World Summer
Jul 23, 2023
Searching for an Equalizer at the Women’s World Cup
Jul 16, 2023
2024 GOP Primary Primer with Jake Tapper
Jul 09, 2023
Russia After the Rebellion
Jul 02, 2023
A Black Minister, His Trans Daughter and a Family's Journey to Acceptance
Jun 25, 2023
Who Gets to Set the AI Agenda?
Jun 18, 2023
The Federal Indictment of Donald Trump
Jun 11, 2023
Should Congress Ditch the Debt Ceiling?
Jun 04, 2023
A Maritime “Me Too” Moment
May 28, 2023
Uvalde Families Get a Glimpse of the Truth
May 21, 2023
Does Clearing Homeless Camps Just Extend the Crisis?
May 14, 2023
Inside the Beginning of a Border Surge
May 07, 2023
Voters Don’t Want a Trump-Biden Rematch. They May Get One Anyway.
Apr 30, 2023
Shot Over a Simple Mistake
Apr 23, 2023
66 Miles Through the Darién Gap
Apr 16, 2023
A Former Prosecutor on the Novel Case Against Donald Trump
Apr 09, 2023
Your Trump Indictment Questions, Answered
Apr 02, 2023
Mexico, Beyond the Border with Eva Longoria
Mar 26, 2023
Breakdown of a Bank Collapse (and What It Means for You)
Mar 19, 2023
Planes, Trains & Big Mistakes
Mar 12, 2023
Will the Supreme Court Flunk Biden’s Student Debt Plan?
Mar 05, 2023
The People Fueling Ukraine’s ‘Will to Win’
Feb 26, 2023
Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Screens & Teens (Including His Own!)
Feb 19, 2023
Inside the Race for Earthquake Relief in Turkey and Syria
Feb 12, 2023
What Tyre Nichols Could Change About Policing
Feb 05, 2023
Are Florida Students Getting the Full Story?
Jan 29, 2023
On the Front Lines of the Western Water Wars
Jan 22, 2023
The Biden Document Discovery (And How It Compares to Trump)
Jan 15, 2023
Will Damar Hamlin Change How We Watch Football?
Jan 08, 2023
The Tech That Could Define 2023 (and Beyond)
Jan 01, 2023
Hollywood’s ‘Last Movie Stars’ with Ethan Hawke
Dec 25, 2022
Inside the Fall of a ‘Crypto King’
Dec 18, 2022
Just How Vulnerable is America’s Power Grid?
Dec 11, 2022
Zero Patience for Zero-Covid in China
Dec 04, 2022
Understanding “The Assignment” with Audie Cornish
Nov 27, 2022
Donald Trump is Running Again. Is The GOP On Board?
Nov 20, 2022
What We’ve Learned From the 2022 Midterms (So Far)
Nov 13, 2022
The States That Could Swing the Midterms
Nov 06, 2022
Elon Musk Owns Twitter (For Real This Time). Now What?
Oct 30, 2022
She’s Fleeing Iran. But Not the Fight.
Oct 23, 2022
Unpacking America’s Mental Health Crisis
Oct 16, 2022
The Month That May Have Changed the War in Ukraine
Oct 09, 2022
How Hurricane Ian Got So Strong, So Quickly
Oct 02, 2022
Why Republican Governors are Putting Migrants on the Move
Sep 25, 2022
How Abortion Could Swing the Midterms
Sep 18, 2022
Introducing: All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Sep 12, 2022
What Queen Elizabeth's Death Means for the Modern Monarchy
Sep 11, 2022
“Machine guns are back, and they’re everywhere.”
Sep 04, 2022
Afghanistan's New Crisis
Aug 28, 2022
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a Climate Milestone
Aug 21, 2022
Did We Miss Our Chance to Contain Monkeypox?
Aug 14, 2022
Pelosi Visits Taiwan. China Fires Back.
Aug 07, 2022
How Election Lies Are Fueling GOP Primaries
Jul 31, 2022
What Really Happened in Uvalde?
Jul 24, 2022
A Look Inside NASA’s ‘Cosmic Time Machine’
Jul 17, 2022
What’s Behind Biden’s Saudi Shift?
Jul 10, 2022
The State(s) of Abortion in America
Jul 03, 2022
How SCOTUS is Reshaping America
Jun 26, 2022
Why Juneteenth is More Than a Day Off
Jun 19, 2022
America and the AR-15
Jun 12, 2022
The 1/6 Investigation Goes Primetime
Jun 05, 2022
Will Uvalde Change Anything?
May 29, 2022
Trevor Reed is Finally Home
May 22, 2022
How to Make Sense of This Economic Moment
May 15, 2022
What Could a Post-Roe America Look Like?
May 08, 2022
Trumpism Gets Tested in Ohio
May 01, 2022
Biden’s Climate Ambitions Come Back Down to Earth
Apr 24, 2022
How Safe is America’s Biggest City?
Apr 17, 2022
Anticipation and Anxiety at the US-Mexico Border
Apr 10, 2022
Why Asian Americans Take Public Safety Personally
Apr 03, 2022
Why Anti-Asian Hate Rarely Becomes a Hate Crime
Mar 27, 2022
KBJ Steps into the SCOTUS Spotlight
Mar 20, 2022
What the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Says About GOP Politics
Mar 13, 2022
The Pandemic’s New Phase (For Real This Time?)
Mar 06, 2022
How Far Will Putin Go?
Feb 27, 2022
Trayvon Martin, 10 Years Later with Don Lemon
Feb 20, 2022
The Surprising Stats Behind Super Bowl LVI
Feb 13, 2022
Higher Interest Rates Are Coming. Here’s What to Expect.
Feb 06, 2022
Going for Gold (and Avoiding Omicron) in Beijing
Jan 30, 2022
When Will 5G Be Cleared for Takeoff?
Jan 23, 2022
Battle For The Ballot Box
Jan 16, 2022
Omicron Tests America's Schools
Jan 09, 2022
January 6, One Year Later
Jan 02, 2022
2022 Pandemic Preview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dec 26, 2021
Tornado Survivors Tell Their Story
Dec 19, 2021
Roe’s Last Stand
Dec 05, 2021
Big Stream Takes On The Big Screen
Nov 28, 2021
Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis
Nov 21, 2021
Welcome to Inflation Nation
Nov 14, 2021
What Parents Should Know About Covid Vaccines for Kids
Nov 07, 2021
Can Climate Progress Be Made At COP26?
Oct 31, 2021
Living Under Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
Oct 24, 2021