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Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the middle of it. From ancient civilizations to forgotten figures, we take you directly to the moments that shaped our world. Throughline is hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalist Rund Abdelfatah.

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  • Is the death penalty cruel and unusual?

    Is the death penalty cruel and unusual?
    15 Oct 2026
    The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide the amendment's boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? In this hour, the shifting definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

    This episode was originally published in January 2025.

    Guests:

    John Bessler, law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Author of The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights.

    Carol Steiker, law professor at Harvard Law School and author of Courting Death: the Supreme Court and Capital Punishment.


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  • Why does everything get a standing ovation now?

    Why does everything get a standing ovation now?
    13 Oct 2026
    Call it standing ovation inflation: these days, it feels like it's mandatory to stand and clap for live performances. Has our please clap era gone too far? That's what one Throughline listener wanted to know. So we traced the winding road from Shakespeare’s epilogues to Broadway divas to ridiculously long film festival ovations… and how they helped engineer the way we applaud.

    Guests:

    Roger Gilbert,     professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell

    Kyle Buchanan, reporter and columnist for the New York Times

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  • Four Seasons of Ceasefire in Gaza

    Four Seasons of Ceasefire in Gaza
    8 Oct 2026
    NPR’s Anas Baba is one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza working full-time for an American news organization. A year into the ceasefire, more than 1400 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, nearly 5,000 injured. And those numbers rise nearly every day. What has the last year looked and felt like on the ground? In this episode, Baba takes us through four seasons of ceasefire—as both a resident trying to survive and a reporter trying to document reality.

    Guests:

    Anas Baba, NPR Gaza reporter

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