9/11 Pt. 2: Ground Zero

Does nature or nurture shape who we are? Does our personality come from our genes, or the environment we live in? Countless scientific studies on the subject have been published. But one such study – a collaboration between a psychoanalyst and a New York adoption agency – was ins ... Show More

James Angleton ran counterintelligence for the CIA for 20 years. His job was to find Soviet spies hiding inside Western intelligence. He was brilliant, obsessive, and almost certainly right that the threat of a mole was real. But the hunt he launched tore the CIA apart from the i ... Show More

In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, sinking it off the Irish coast, and killing over 1000 people. The attack devastated the American public, and justified America’s entry into World War I. But rumors of a top-secret British navy operation, the ship’s hidden second m ... Show More

The devastating murder of a public official sets in motion the beginning of a new criminal enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

On September 16, 1920, an explosion went off at 23 Wall Street, killing 38 people and injuring hundreds more. But no one knew who set off the bomb, or why. We explore the political and financial turmoil that may have inspired the attack, and we look into the man who warned New Yo ... Show More

We all know “911. What’s your emergency?” But the responses to that question can send shivers down your spine. Ash and Alaina dial up killer confessions and calls for help where goosebumps are guaranteed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

A major break comes in a highly publicized murder case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

A horrifying feature of the War in Ukraine has been the atrocities committed, particularly against the civilian population. Veteran war reporter Janine di Giovanni joins Patrick and Saul this week to discuss this and the work she is doing as part of the Reckoning Project.  Hosted ... Show More

Was 9/11 an Inside Job? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

At a precarious moment for the free press—as journalists face rhetoric about “fake news,” hostility toward reporters at political rallies, and efforts by powerful interests to suppress and manipulate the news—this episode looks at a group of people on the frontlines of the fight ... Show More

In 1990, after over 2 decades of retrieving downed UFOs, Clifford Stone’s military service would end in disgrace. His new mission—to restore his name and inform the public about the government’s massive alien cover-up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad ... Show More

People who defied society. Bullets that defiled bodies. Deaths that define history. Assassinations recounts the lead-up, the fall-out, and impact of history’s most dramatic deaths. Within each story, we explore the people who picked the target, pulled the trigger, or poured the p ... Show More