In 2003 the space shuttle Columbia was returning from two weeks in orbit. It was a routine mission. So routine that most of America barely paid attention. Until something went terribly wrong. Many of us watched shuttle break apart over Texas on television. All seven of the crew members were lost. Jon Clark’s wife, Laurel, was one of them, and her death that day inspired his life’s work: helping get...

In 1975 a group of activists set off into the Pacific Ocean to confront a fleet Soviet whalers. This episode is about that moment, when this tight-knit group of activists came together to set off a movement … and how today, 40 years later, some of them can’t even talk to one another.

Ibrahim Parlak came to the U.S. in 1991 as Kurdish refugee; his friends and neighbors see him as the ideal American immigrant. But the U.S. government considers him "the complete terrorist package" and has been trying to deport him for over a decade. We try to figure out why they see him so differently.