Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. From unearthing exploitative working conditions to exposing the nation’s racial disparities, there’s always more to the story. Learn more at revealnews.org/learn.
Episodes
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May 13, 2026 • 28min
How Redistricting Is Upending America’s Midterms
Tim Murphy, a Mother Jones national correspondent who covers national politics and redistricting. He discusses the Supreme Court ruling that reshaped the Voting Rights Act and the GOP scramble to redraw maps. He outlines how Southern legislatures may erase Black opportunity districts. He also covers Virginia’s court reversal and the wider repercussions for November’s midterms.
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May 9, 2026 • 51min
Stop the Steal Never Stopped
Najeeb Amini, Reveal reporter who covered CPAC and the election-denial movement. Abby Vasoulis, Mother Jones investigator who reported from Georgia on shifts in the state election board. They explore the Fulton County raid, how denialist activists moved into power, theories about voting machines, and the real-world politics and meetings turning doubt into policy.
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May 6, 2026 • 32min
The Secrets Behind “The Talented Mr. Epstein”
Vicky Ward, investigative journalist and author who first reported on Jeffrey Epstein, revisits her 2002 reporting and editorial choices. She recounts threats from Epstein, how she found the Farmer sisters, and why their allegations were cut. She also explores Epstein’s tactics, Ghislaine Maxwell’s role, and lingering questions about his death and influence.
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May 2, 2026 • 51min
The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear
Carsie Blanton, singer-songwriter and activist who sailed and endured detention. Luna Sbou, Moroccan-born activist and crew member who lived the voyage firsthand. They recount drone attacks, nighttime interceptions by the Israeli navy, harsh detention in Ketziot, and how the flotilla’s voyage reverberated ashore and sparked global protests.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 32min
Trump’s Impulsive Foreign Policy Is Tearing Apart the Global Order
Daniel Immerwahr, history professor and author of How to Hide an Empire, explains how recent U.S. moves are reshaping global structures. He discusses Trump’s transactional instincts, hit-and-run regime tactics, territorial thinking about Greenland and Canada, the fracturing of the post‑1945 order, and possible futures if U.S. hegemony continues to unravel.
8 snips
Apr 25, 2026 • 50min
Poisoning the Forest for the Trees
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard historian of science who exposed corporate manipulation of research, and Nate Halverson, investigative reporter who documented glyphosate spraying in California forests. They trace rising herbicide use, dead understories discovered in the field, industry ghostwriting of studies, and how disputed science shaped Forest Service practices. Tough reporting and whistleblower sleuthing drive the story.
Apr 22, 2026 • 42min
The Earth Is Worth Saving. Here's How We Do It.
Al Gore, former vice president and climate advocate; Bill McKibben, author and renewable-energy organizer; Catherine Coleman Flowers, environmental justice and sanitation activist. They discuss the global surge in solar, wind, and batteries. They explore failing sanitation and local pollution harms. They debate political will, grassroots action, and barriers to rooftop and community solar.
33 snips
Apr 18, 2026 • 50min
Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire
Gabriel Geiger, an investigative reporter who uncovered a vast unsecured phone-tracking archive. Michael Montgomery, an investigative producer who helped narrate the global probe. They trace a surveillance firm’s phone-tracking tech, undercover meetings at a secret trade fair, misuse against protesters and dissidents, and how companies and states skirt legal safeguards.
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Apr 15, 2026 • 30min
Is AI Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear Disaster?
Daniel Holz, a physicist who chairs the Science and Security Board and studies existential risk, walks through the Doomsday Clock’s history and why its hands moved closer to midnight. He discusses the scale of nuclear weapons, public complacency, how AI factors into global risk, and concrete actions like diplomacy and arms reductions. Short, urgent, and eye-opening.
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Apr 11, 2026 • 50min
Inside America’s Race to Hide the World’s Money
Sally Herships, an investigative reporter who co-reported and narrated much of the show, guides listeners through America’s secretive trust industry. She explores how trusts hide wealth, why states compete to attract them, and the secrecy and oversight gaps that make the U.S. a global haven. Short, probing scenes take you from Silicon Valley founders to South Dakota’s trust hub.
