An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.
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What happens when of a group of public school students in the Bronx goes to visit an elite private school three miles away.
In our most ambitious live show, we turn journalism into a Broadway musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were?
Ten people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY. Their stories, as you’ve never heard them.
Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?
An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?
Stories from the center of this moment of history, the day it happened.
Getting from A to B via Z.
Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown- ups.
Stories about surviving the mishaps of love.
Kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.
A man is thrust into a new world he didn’t ask to visit.
Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.
The story of two babies switched at birth. One of the moms knew from the beginning and kept it a secret for 43 years. Then she told everybody.
Stories of resistance from Hungary and Russia.
People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems.
We ask the people who work at a hospice facility some personal questions about death and dying.
People who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.