Divide and Conquer
The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon. US CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 3 New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new…
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Bonus: Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant
In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Malcolm talks with WorkLife’s Adam Grant about how to avoid doing highly undesirable tasks, what makes an…
Pilot: Walk on Water
In the fall of 2017, Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, and Bruce Headlam sat down with Eminem and talked about his song “Walk on Water,” featuring Beyoncé. That interview became the…
The Basement Tapes
What is a son’s obligation to his father? A cardiologist in Minnesota searches through the basement of his childhood home for a missing box of data from a long-ago experiment.…
McDonald’s Broke My Heart
They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away.McDonald’s used to make the best fast food french fries in the world — until they changed their recipe…
Mr. Hollowell Didn’t Like That
Arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair in 24 hours. A man named Willie Nash is arrested for the murder of a white man…
State v Johnson
“Nobody was interested in justice.” The first of a two-part story about the lawyers who helped crack the colorlines of the Jim Crow South. A man rapes a woman. Vernon…
The King of Tears
Why country music makes you cry, and rock and roll doesn’t: A musical interpretation of divided America. Revisionist History goes to Nashville to talk with Bobby Braddock, who has written…
The Prime Minister and the Prof
The friendship that changed the course of World War II. How does friendship influence political power? The story of Winston Churchill’s close friend and confidant — an eccentric scientist named…
The Foot Soldier of Birmingham
“Oh, Mac. What did you do?” Birmingham, 1963. The image of a police dog viciously attacking a young black protester shocks the nation. The picture, taken in the midst of…
Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment
A landmark Supreme Court case. A civil rights revolution. Why has everyone forgotten what happened next? Brown v Board of Education might be the most well-known Supreme Court decision, a…
The Road to Damascus
What happens when a terrorist has a change of heart? An Islamic militant, who left a trail of destruction in Europe, crosses over to work for the CIA. And then,…