99% Invisible
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org. A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
Open Borders
An immigration reporter’s chance encounter in the desert reveals how borders shape our actions, our...
EscucharThe Titanic's Best Lifeboat
A century-old shipwreck, a sea of glass, and the lifeboats that were never meant to save you.The Titanic...
EscucharThe Red, the Black, and the Green
After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of...
EscucharThe Return of Con Law
We heard you. The chorus of voices asking “where is Con Law? Where is Professor Elizabeth Joh to guide...
EscucharAdapt or Design
A debilitating injury forces 99PI's Kurt Kohlstedt to confront new everyday challenges and seek out...
EscucharBuild, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein
Why is it so hard to build anything in America? Ezra Klein explores how our good intentions led to a...
EscucharForeign in a Domestic Sense
A dusty surveillance file uncovers the story of love, betrayal, and the fight for Puerto Rico’s freedom.Foreign...
EscucharFishing In The Night
Shortwave radio opened a portal to the world—then became a weapon in a high-stakes war of propaganda...
EscucharChanging Stripes Revisited
At the January 6th Capitol insurrection, rioters waved Confederate, MAGA, and Trump-as-Rambo flags....
EscucharOne-Nil to the Arsenal
A goofy Shakira remix, a nervy penalty kick, and 60,000 fans turning banter into legend—welcome to...
EscucharI've Got 1099 Problems...
If you're one of the millions of Americans struggling with your tax forms today, you're not alone. Even...
EscucharEverything Is Tuberculosis
John Green uncovers how the world’s deadliest curable disease still thrives—and why everything,...
EscucharA Walking Tour with Mr. Memphis
Take a whirlwind tour of Memphis with the city’s most enthusiastic historian, uncovering duck parades,...
EscucharThe Great American Pyramid
In 1991, one of the strangest buildings in America opened — a 32-storey, stainless steel pyramid in...
EscucharSecret Mall Apartment
A group of artists explored the back hallways of a mall in Providence, RI, and found the perfect place...
EscucharBeautiful West Oakland, California
When global trade reshapes a city, who pays the price—and who fights back?Alexis Madrigal’s new...
EscucharWhat We're Reading
After we finished up The Power Broker, a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been...
EscucharA Beetle By Any Other Name
A tiny, unremarkable beetle hiding in the caves of Slovenia has an infamously unfortunate name—one...
EscucharThe Brutalists
A film about a struggling architect, a style the world loves to hate—The Brutalist and Brutalism itself...
EscucharThe Nazi Block
In the heart of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district sits a hulking, crumbling concrete cylinder—an...
EscucharThe Power Broker Breakdown Wrap-Up
Join Roman and Elliott one last time as they reflect on their journey with you all through The Power...
EscucharYour Own Personal Jesus
How did a simple painting transform into the world's most recognized depiction of Jesus?Head of Christ Subscribe...
EscucharThe Wide Open
Last week, we delved into story of how the Tennessee Valley Authority, which started out as a public...
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