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Why We Wrote This — 183 episodes

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Imagining First Contact

2

A Place To Belong

3

Chasing the Rings in Milan

4

Notebooks and Hand Warmers

5

Civility With a Side of Eggs

6

What Venezuela Might Mean

7

There Will Be Oil

8

It Came from the Bog

9

‘We Went Up on the Roof’

10

Shared Anguish, Shared Hope

11

Asking the ‘Why’ Questions

12

You Can’t Sneak Up on a Wolverine

13

New Cities in an Old City’s Orbit

14

A Sustainable, High-Tech Life

15

To Russia, With Hope

16

‘The Work Is Mysterious and Important’

17

U.S. Politics and Legal Tests

18

How Crowd Control Evolves

19

What Faith Looks Like Now

20

A Kingdom of Empathy?

21

A Mother’s Strength

22

Reading America’s Shift: Part 2

23

Reading America’s Shift: Part 1

24

A Chatty Thanksgiving Primer

25

Encore: Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along

26

Why We Went Deep on Sudan

27

Election Unprecedented, Part 2

28

Election Unprecedented, Part 1

29

Gaza’s Story, From the Inside

30

Encore: The Power of Porches

31

A Fuller View of Taiwan

32

A Fight Over Students’ Phones

33

Encore: A Zeal for Reels

34

A Beat That’s Bigger Than Borders

35

Scenes From the Press Pool

36

An Alchemist of Folk

37

Writers’ Read: Drug Use and Compassion

38

On the Run at the Games

39

How To Listen to the World

40

A Climate Saga Gets Sticky

41

Encore: Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus

42

Can Trust Cool a Murder Rate?

43

Title IX at 50 Plus Two

44

Turning Trust Into Tree Cover

45

A Kinder Brand of Capitalism

46

A Writer’s Retrospective

47

In Voting We Trust?

48

Where Black Women Reclaim Power

49

Looking for Trust as India Votes

50

Writer’s Read: What Gaza’s Women Endure

51

Telling Stories Readers Can’t Resist

52

When Trump Speaks, What’s Heard?

53

Writer’s Read: A Different Border Tale

54

#MeToo, French Edition

55

A Narrative Missed by the News

56

Writer’s Read: Trust and the Texas Grid

57

Finding the Soul of Harlem

58

Artificial Intelligence, Real Learning

59

Introducing ‘Rebuilding Trust’

60

Nordic Norm? The ‘Just Enough’ Life

61

Understanding Evangelicals

62

Life at the Hub of War Coverage

63

Covering Campaign 2024

64

The Young Hands on Earth’s Thermostat

65

Picking Books That Matter

66

The Transcendent Power of ‘Swiftie’ Nation

67

What Might Curb Mass Shootings

68

One Reporter’s Guide to Gratitude

69

A Politics Writer’s Real Test

70

Respect, Dignity, and Getting Along

71

Mideast Turmoil: What’s Different This Time

72

A Zeal for Reels, Unspooled

73

Braving Rockets To Build Social Bonds

74

Rejecting an Easy, Ageist Narrative

75

This Forest is More Than the Trees

76

A Writer’s Wrexham Moment

77

How Lahaina Looks Forward

78

Images That Bring Humanity Into Focus

79

What Debates Really Mean

80

The Rise of the Microschool?

81

Where Disinformation Gets Destroyed

82

Honoring History on the Carolina Coast

83

Sowing Agency in Malawi

84

Mideast’s Makers of Change

85

A Reporting Team’s Supreme Test

86

Resilience: Inside the ‘Other China’

87

Reckoning With Reparations

88

The Compassion Solution

89

War Stories, Part 2

90

The Politics of Trans Care

91

An Oil Giant Sees Green

92

The Power of Porches

93

In Uruguay, Democracy Done Better?

94

A Pivotal Politician, A Fuller View

95

A Cross-Border Welcome

96

New Allies in the Climate Fight

97

Voices From the Street

98

The Ditch Riders

99

Where Titles Match the Tasks

100

Chatting Us Up

101

Redefining ‘Coverage’

102

A Journey Without Judgment

103

‘The Envelope, Please’

104

War Stories

105

What’s a Teacher Worth?

106

Does Mercy Have Limits?

107

The ‘Alaska Way’

108

Real People, Real Voices

109

Humanity in Focus

110

A Global Hunt for Good

111

Black Films Break Through

112

How to Farm a Hotter Planet

113

Rethinking the Workweek

114

A Child’s ‘Best Interests’

115

A Win-Win on Housing?

116

The Power of Giving Thanks

117

Keeping It Fair

118

Rebooting Conscription

119

A Writer’s Long Run

120

News That Unites and Uplifts

121

Stories From Us, Stories of Humanity

122

Introducing ‘Why We Wrote This’

123

Monitor Backstory: A shift on a power source?

124

Monitor Backstory: Finding dignity in war

125

Monitor Backstory: A deeper reading of ‘Goodnight Moon’

126

Monitor Backstory: Mining for global progress

127

Monitor Backstory: Seeing patterns in the news

128

Monitor Backstory: The real Saudi shift

129

Monitor Backstory: Covering Jan. 6

130

Monitor Backstory: Joy on a Montana shoot

131

Monitor Backstory: Where education and democracy meet

132

Monitor Backstory: Voices of Title IX

133

Say That Again: To Build A Voice

134

Say That Again: Our Listeners Speak

135

Say That Again: Language Lesson

136

Say That Again: Talking Black, With Pride

137

Say That Again: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

138

Say That Again: Hey Ma, I’m On TV!

139

Say That Again: You Are How You Sound

140

Introducing: "Say That Again?"

141

Holiday Episode No. 5: Joy

142

Holiday Episode No. 4: Hope

143

Holiday Episode No. 3: Love

144

Holiday Episode No. 2: Gratitude

145

Holiday Episode No. 1: Faith

146

Okere City: A Ugandan hub of progress

147

LavaMaeX: Hot showers and radical hospitality

148

Theresa Betancourt: How ex-child soldiers heal

149

Daisy Hampton: Including You

150

The Travelling Telescope

151

Global Gardens: Raising confident children

152

The Grace Project

153

The Sewing Machine Project

154

A more equitable new-pilot pipeline

155

Reflections on Being Muslim in the Aftermath of 9/11

156

Stronger: The Sisters

157

Stronger: The Teacher

158

Stronger: The Service Worker

159

Stronger: The Nurse

160

Stronger: The Artist

161

Stronger: Women, Work, and the Pandemic

162

Introducing: Stronger

163

Introducing: Tulsa Rising

164

For the newly food insecure, help that preserves dignity

165

It’s About Time: How to Be Nicer to Future You

166

It’s About Time: The Fight for Equal Time

167

It's About Time: On the Clock

168

It’s About Time: Out of Time? You're Not Alone.

169

Bonus: Alan Lightman Talks Creativity, Time, and Einstein

170

It’s About Time: Can We Change the Past?

171

It's About Time: Why Time Flies

172

What Is Time? Introducing: It's About Time

173

21 in ‘21: Does a Pandemic Define a Generation?

174

Trusting Our Elections: Why Are Conspiracy Theories So Compelling?

175

Trusting Our Elections: What Makes Our Elections Secure?

176

Lenora Chu on the Power of Cultural Influences

177

Francine Kiefer on How One Beat Informs Another

178

Sara Miller Llana on Finding What Matters

179

Ken Makin on Race, Justice, and Hope

180

Black Wall Street: ‘Everything is Us’

181

Black Wall Street: ‘The Illusion of Inclusion’

182

Black Wall Street: ‘Their Blood Still Speaks’

183

Introducing: Rethinking the News