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560: Abdi and the Golden Ticket

June 15, 2018

Originally Aired July 3, 2015

A story about someone who's desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American. Abdi is a Somali refugee living in Kenya and gets the luckiest break of his life: he wins a lottery that puts him on a short list for a U.S. visa. This is his ticket out. But before he can cash in his golden ticket, the police start raiding his neighborhood, targeting refugees.

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648: Unteachable Moment

June 8, 2018

Stories about people trying to learn something when no one is clear what the lesson is supposed to be.

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649: Taking NY 19

June 22, 2018

Democrats are pretty united in how they feel about President Trump. But they’re wrestling with each other over what their party is, and what it stands for. In this year's pivotal midterms, before Democrats slug it out with Republicans, they’re slugging it out with each other.

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