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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order

By Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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Subscribers: 687
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 9

sarah
Dec 22, 2025
Maddow does it again with her style of storytelling that goes beyond just the history of the topic and takes you on a journey through people's lives which helps you to consider what you would've done then, and what you will do now.

HoosierDiva
Dec 16, 2025
Most Excellent....history doesn't repeat, but it heavily rhymes.

Dec 13, 2025

Description

"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round up innocent citizens, Japanese Americans, at the outbreak of World War II. This six-episode narrative podcast will examine and shed new light on how that policy came to be, who was behind it, who attempted to stop it, and the heroism needed to end the policy for good. Brazen lies and stereotypes about a minority group being pushed by senior government officials. Desperate efforts to prevent the policy from going into place. A community terrorized on the streets by the U.S. military, grabbed from their homes and sent to faraway, hastily built detention camps. Government reports gathered up and set on fire to suppress the truth behind the policy. And a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all. This is the story of the American government's decision to pursue and carry out an extreme and unconstitutional policy against its own citizens, and it's the story of what it finally took to stop it. Rachel Maddow's previous narrative podcasts -- "Bag Man," "Ultra," and "Ultra: Season 2" -- all reached #1 on the Apple podcast charts and have received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award, a Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism, and most recently, a 2025 national Edward R. Murrow Award. Her new series, "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order," premieres December 1, 2025.

Episode	Date
Get Insider Access to MS NOW Podcasts Read the full episode description	Jan 09, 2026
Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order Read the full episode description	Dec 30, 2025
Episode 6: A Reckoning Read the full episode description	Dec 13, 2025
Episode 5: Sheep and Goats Read the full episode description	Dec 13, 2025
Episode 4: "Like an Ordinary American" Read the full episode description	Dec 08, 2025
Episode 3: One Drop Read the full episode description	Dec 08, 2025
Episode 2: The Jitters Read the full episode description	Dec 01, 2025
Episode 1: Safecracker Read the full episode description	Dec 01, 2025
Introducing “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order” Read the full episode description	Nov 20, 2025