The Big Picture

The story of the government cracking down on smokestack emissions at a city factory...even though the residents LIKE the emissions.

Host Ira Glass tells the story of writer turned activist Bill McKibben.

Producer Ben Calhoun tells the story of a former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, Bob Inglis.

Reporter Paul Tough and Host Ira Glass look at the biggest change in admissions this year: colleges no longer requiring the SATs.

Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.

Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.