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The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democrati…
On today's show, a Thanksgiving story you might never have heard -- not about Pilgrims or Native people, but instead about a woman who, as civil war loomed, pus…
In the summer of 2020, teenager Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join a racial justice movement after the killing of George Floyd. Less than a week…
Australia's signal intelligence agency calls upon an Eighties popstar to fight terrorism, and a simple act of kindness leads to a woman being scammed for thousa…
Carole takes us into the sinister side of Barbie, while Graham describes a stalkerware operation that has been spilling its secrets. All this and more is discus…
America's airwaves are haunted by zombies again, as we dig into a decade of broadcasters leaving their hardware open to attack, giving hackers the chance to hij…
When you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a legally enforceable contract. Even if you never signed anything. These days,…
We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain somethi…
This summer, the Supreme Court struck down Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers. Except, on the same day Biden first announced th…
Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly so, others more subtl…
