40 Acres and A Mule, enlightening series. However unjust 200 plus years of African slavery is and should be addressed. Indigenous people were shoved aside and all their land was taken away. Not much talk about giving all the tribes back the lakes, rivers, and land they once occupied which was also taken away by white settlers and our government. Reservations are not much of a give back!

Keep up the great work! We need more journalism like this. Thanks, Al and team!!

Amazing investigative journalism always! Such a gift!

I absolutely love Reveal News! Investigative journalism is my favorite type of journalism story. Thank you for delving deep and taking risks to get us the full story. Keep it up! And thanks for sharing he cool Tshirts.

Terrific show: Giving voice to young women who are in the process of finding their power and moral compass. My only suggestion is that the amazing Al Letson share his platform with a woman who could have introduced this show. It gets old hearing a tremendous story on women supporting one another and themselves and then their stories are wrapped up by a male narrator. Not to denigrate Mr. Al Letson, who is fantastic, but let’s share the microphone.

Im up taking notes from your excellent podcast about New Folson, so you know it has to be good. Great work Retired criminologist

Excellent par non. Thank you all!!!

i love Reveal and usually think their episodes are incredible. i’m giving 4 stars because i thought it was very strange (and didn’t seem up to the normal level of detailed analysis that i love about the show) that none of the post-election conversation mentioned any of the factors that i thought were extremely influential in kamala and the democrats’ loss — namely, the refusal to denounce genocide and change course on the US’s funding of it (as the polling showed in swing states for months that huge percentages of voters supported an arms embargo and would be more likely to support her if she implemented one), and basically trying to cater to and capture the votes of centrists and republicans by running on platforms of policing, the “most lethal military in the world”, and immigration/border wall that were more of a republican platform... along those same lines, the dnc never allowed for a democratic primary, and forced a candidate onto the people that didn’t receive much support in her initial presidential run (with many concerned about her record as prosecutor in CA), so that was a baffling decision. with how important defunding the police and the genocide of gaza have shown to be for many progressive voters, i just wish those issues would have been addressed, analyzed, and discussed more thoughtfully, or at least mentioned at all. i definitely think racism and sexism played a part in the results (how could they not, ugh) but the substantive issues that matter to large swaths of the electorate - that were well known by the party for so long but were completely ignored in favor of an imperialist pro-war agenda - seemed to be a massive (and preventable) piece of the puzzle that was hugely overlooked. (for me it was reminiscent of the conversation in a previous episode about obama prematurely scolding/shaming black men for being ‘sexist’ for ‘not wanting’ kamala - rather than recognizing valid concerns of important constituencies and changing policy to match their demands, it felt like the party was ready to scapegoat folks for whom the gaza genocide is a red line)

The views expressed in “How Trump won the presidency, again” are the reason the dems lost. Racism, fascism, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia are not the reasons they lost. These elitist interviewees STILL are treating those who disagree with them as absolute idiots.

To dismiss the popular vote across America as being driven by racism when a person of color has sat in one of the top two spots in our country is so off base. Deciding to disregard real issues and concerns of the economy, inflation, and immigration and labeling all trump voters as racist misogynistic bigots as a reason they didn’t vote for some one who was one of the most do-nothing VPs with the lowest approval ratings suddenly getting propelled into the presidential nominee seat without any kind of primary — you are blinded by your own self imposed victimization and view that anyone who didn’t like Kamala hates minorities and women. The democrats failed to put forth a viable candidate. This is not the hill you die on, sir.