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Throughline
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About Throughline
Throughline is a podcast with 457 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Throughline and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Throughline
Origins as a Folk and Work Song Labor Organizing and the 1945 Tobacco Strike Highlander Folk Center as a Transmission Hub Transformation by Activists and Musicians Civil Rights Movement Adoption Symbolic Power in National Politics Global Legacy of Hope Butler as visionary writer
Notable Guests on Throughline
Recent Episodes
How Korean culture went global — August 20, 2026The blatant betrayal that erased the Tupperware queen from history — August 13, 2026Lies, theft, and cover-up: the history of Monopoly you've never heard — August 06, 2026The song that fueled protests and a legacy of hope — August 04, 2026The lightbulb conspiracy is both real and everywhere — July 30, 2026The license to be funny in America — July 28, 2026The architect of modern China — July 23, 2026The Chinafication of Walmart — July 21, 2026Listen to "We Keep Us Safe" on NPR's Embedded podcast — July 19, 2026Route 66 and the quest to connect America — July 16, 2026How wheelchairs, a river, and a spaceship challenged the status quo — July 14, 2026The ongoing battle over asylum in America — July 09, 2026American history through song — July 07, 2026The story of July 4th is messier than you remember — July 02, 2026The genius and murkiness of the Constitution — June 30, 2026From Hormuz to Suez: the chokepoints of global power — June 25, 2026Prosperity gospel and the American dream — June 23, 2026How the Supreme Court claimed supreme power — June 18, 2026Captain America and the nation's conscience — June 16, 2026The shifting line between free speech and a criminal threat — June 11, 2026The uncensored war — June 09, 2026The World Cup was supposed to bring world peace — June 04, 2026Bayard Rustin and the March on Washington — June 02, 2026History's playbook for taming the beast of inflation — May 28, 2026Yuri Kochiyamas’s lifetime of activism — May 26, 2026Prediction markets are making a 150-year comeback — May 21, 2026Frances Perkins Goes To Washington — May 19, 2026War by remote control, how drones changed modern warfare — May 14, 2026Four voices from the Great Depression — May 12, 2026How our memory of war can shape the future — May 07, 2026The origins of the Socialist Party of America — May 05, 2026Gladiators, real housewives and the pull of reality TV — April 30, 2026The fight that shook America — April 28, 2026The billionaires' utopia blueprint — April 23, 2026Why the wall was built — April 21, 2026The original clickbait king — April 16, 2026How the US became America — April 14, 2026Will AI destroy us... or save us? — April 09, 2026Who gets to be an American citizen? — April 07, 2026Al Capone and the transformation of the IRS — April 02, 2026What the banana tells us about US history — March 31, 2026How Saudi Arabia shaped Silicon Valley — March 26, 2026The Ojibwe Nation — March 24, 2026Why is Cuba in crisis? — March 19, 2026The confederates who left the USA — March 17, 20263 key moments that led to the U.S.-Iran war — March 12, 2026Everyone should have a voice — March 10, 2026Iran and the Jewish people: An alliance before war — March 05, 2026We the People, Redefined — March 03, 2026Why Super PACs have more power than ever in elections — February 26, 2026
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