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Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a town ravaged by the opioid epidemic, Embedded takes you where the news is happening.
Five Fingers Crush The Land from NPR's Throughline
As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series "The Black Gate," hundreds of thousands...
EscucharThe Black Gate: Vanished in the Night
In the Xinjiang region of western China, the government has rounded up and detained hundreds of thousands...
EscucharThe Black Gate: Like a Bullet from a Gun
Abdullatif Kucar returns to China, determined to find his children, who have been sent to state-run...
EscucharThe Black Gate: Arresting Your Brothers and Sisters
As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported on the Kucar family, she encountered a mysterious figure working...
EscucharIntroducing The Black Gate from NPR
This is the story of a people being erased, one family at a time. For almost a decade, the Chinese government...
EscucharA Good Guy: Under Oath
There's a promise that all Marines make to defend the Constitution. After Sgt. Joshua Abate participated...
EscucharA Good Guy: 279 Hours
"Have you ever tried to overthrow the U.S. government?" Marine Sgt. Joshua Abate was in the middle of...
EscucharIntroducing "A Good Guy" from NPR
Sergeant Joshua Abate says that he's not a rioter or an insurrectionist. Those closest to the active-duty...
EscucharTested: Lumpers and Splitters
Episode 6: Christine and Max are some of the most recent female athletes in this century-long history...
EscucharTested: Unfair Advantage?
Episode 5: A battle over science and ethics unfolds. World Athletics releases and then tweaks multiple...
EscucharTested: Running in Circles
Episode 4: In 2009, South African sprinter Caster Semenya won gold at the World Championships. But instead...
EscucharTested: Card-Carrying Females
Episode 3: We meet Kenyan sprinter Maximila Imali, who—like Christine Mboma—has been sidelined by...
EscucharTested: Questions of a Physical Nature
Episode 2: We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns...
EscucharTested: The Choice
Episode 1: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question...
EscucharIntroducing Tested from NPR and CBC
Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies...
EscucharSupermajority: The Could-Be Candidate
The end of the 113th General Assembly of Tennessee is fast approaching. Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyce...
EscucharSupermajority: A Common-Sense Caucus
Melissa Alexander came to the Tennessee statehouse to convince members of the Republican party – her...
EscucharSupermajority: The Roll Call
It's been four months since the Covenant moms – lifelong conservatives Melissa Alexander, Mary Joyce...
EscucharSupermajority: The Covenant Moms
In 2023, a mass shooter attacked The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee,...
EscucharIntroducing Supermajority from NPR and WPLN
Supermajority is a new 4-part series from NPR's Embedded, in partnership with Nashville Public Radio....
EscucharField Notes: On Losing the Gaza They Knew
The second in a two-part special series featuring conversations between Embedded host Kelly McEvers...
EscucharField Notes: On Reporting, the Israel-Hamas War
The first in a two-part special series featuring conversations between Embedded host Kelly McEvers and...
EscucharTaking Cover: Accountability
In this Taking Cover update, a U.S. senator wants answers from the Marines about what went wrong - and...
EscucharThe Kill List: The Pier
Since activist Karima Baloch's mysterious death in 2020, her family has been searching for answers....
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