Border Wall

A closer look at the messy, beautiful bricks hiding across Chicago. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, ... Show More

Comedian, writer, and podcaster Jamie Loftus has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips — that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety. Now as an adult, Jamie wanted to understand wh ... Show More

How a Swiss mountain call crossed the Atlantic and helped define the sound of country music. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplu ... Show More

Trevor reacts to President Trump requesting a see-through border wall so he can know what cartels are up to on the other side. Listen to Trevor interact with the audience when The Daily Show cuts to commercial. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwo ... Show More

The U.S. - Mexico border, according to a video on the official White House website, is very quiet: nothing but tires crunching on gravel and the wind whistling around a high, solid-looking wall. But that's not the whole story. Today on the show, how that border went from a line i ... Show More

President Trump visits the southern border as the government shutdown continues, Trevor addresses a casting controversy, and John David Washington discusses "BlacKkKlansman." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener fo ... Show More

A migrant caravan reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, as President Trump threatens to shut down the government if he doesn't get funding for the wall. Plus Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran lied "big time" on nukes ... did he just force Trump's hand with that nuke deal deadline just day ... Show More

With Donald Trump’s Mexican wall back in the news, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to discover how Britain’s borders have been used to separate communities.Tom travels to Offa’s Dyke to find out how the 176-mile-long, 8th century earthwork divide ... Show More

What is a border? It's a line on a map, a place where cultures mix and merge in beautiful, sometimes violent and occasionally ridiculous ways. And a border wall? An overly simplistic response to that complexity, says architect Ronald Rael. In a moving, visual talk, Rael reimagine ... Show More

Smugglers cut holes in President Trump's border wall, Elizabeth Warren's 2020 primary rivals challenge her health care plan, and Colson Whitehead discusses "The Nickel Boys." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener fo ... Show More

James is joined by Erick Meza to discuss the plans for new border walls in San Diego and elsewhere, and how people are resisting the destruction of sacred spaces, wildlife habitat, and wilderness. Sources: https://www.sierraclub.org/arizona/blog/2025/10/no-more-walls-san-diego-co ... Show More

First, new details of the delicate border deal which Trump has immediately tried to kill, despite not even seeing the text. The major deal was just secured between President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of Senators aimed at securing the southern border with Mexico. Next, Tru ... Show More