The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America

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Death Row, Texas: Inside the Execution Chamber

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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

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Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case

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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

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Methamphetamine: A Love Story

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Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

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The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jon Benet Ramsey, The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds New Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away

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The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

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The Blood of Emmett Till

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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

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No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

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Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places

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Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher

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Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind

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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

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Cults That Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror, Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, Brainwashed Followers, Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides, Grisly Murders

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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

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Get Smart About Meth and Other Stimulants

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America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life

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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

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Episode 587: The Storm Is Upon Us With Mike Rothschild: Thank you to Mike Rothschild for joining. Get his book at fine book sellers everywhere .  Follow him on twitter     Show Notes    

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AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan: Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying...

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The Great Boston Molasses Flood: January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all available rescue personnel...there's a wave of molasses coming down Commercial Street." The bizarre flood decimated Boston's North End. How did it happen? And why does it still affec...

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Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020): Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...

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Empire of Pain: Sacklers, Opioids and the Sickening of America: How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people? In this episode, award-winning writer and author of Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe speaks to Ha...

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CHAOS-Tom O'Neill: Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every...

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Missing 411 with David Paulides: Each year, thousands of people visit national parks across the US. And, tragically, some of them don't return. Join the guys as they interview David Paulides, the prolific author of the Missing 411 series, to learn more about his work and research into th

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Tom O'Neill CHAOS - Charles Manson, The CIA & The 60s: Tom O'Neill spent 20 years writing CHAOS - a book that rose out of the ashes of an article for Premiere Magazine about Charles Manson and the Manson Family. Throughout the years he discovered that the legendary book "Helter Skelter" by Vincent Bugliosi w...

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The Premonition: Michael Lewis reads a chapter from his new book about the pandemic, The Premonition.

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Trump’s Final Year with Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker

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Author Clint Smith and the History We Decide to See

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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump

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Bonnie Garmus, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY: A Novel

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Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention: This week on the Mad in America podcast we hear from Johann Hari. Johann is an  internationally bestselling author whose books have appeared in 38 languages, and he was twice named National Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty...

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1629-Heather Cox Richardson-How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America: CWTR Ep. 1629 - Heather Cox Richardson, author of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America"

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Matthew Desmond on POVERTY, BY AMERICA: “Look at all the advances we've made in the last 50 years, look at the way that culture and medicine and technology and science have advanced since the Beatles broke up, since we were involved in Vietnam, but the poverty rate has been incredibly...

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Sam Quinones: America in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: Please join us for an important conversation on one of the country's most challenging problems, and what we all can do to rise to the challenge.

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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019): Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...

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Mike Jay - Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic: Mike Jay - Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

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PTSF 43: PTSF 43

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Eric C. Schneider, “Smack: Heroin and the American City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008): When I arrived at college in the early 1980s, drugs were cool, music was cool, and drug-music was especially cool. The coolest of the cool drug-music bands was The Velvet Underground. They were from the mean streets of New York City (The Doors were fro...

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A tight race in Germany's elections: Stories from the German election campaign trail, the USA, Colombia, India and Ireland

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The Altered State: Today we travel to a future where all drugs are legal. Just roll up to the store, and get yourself some cocaine! - We start with some history: for centuries a world without drug laws existed. Mark Kleiman,

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Up In Smoke: Remnant first-timer Jonathan Adler joins Jonah today, not to watch Cheech and Chong over a bag of Doritos, but to talk about the politics of marijuana. Earlier in the year (right around the time that the world was ending, actually), Adler edited a volume entitled Marijuana Federalism, which explored the legal contradictions within the laws regarding cannabis in the U.S.; the situation is somewhat unprecedented, in that we now have a substance that is a federal crime to possess, while many states have had such an overwhelming turn in public opinion that this same substance has now become perfectly legal within their own jurisdiction. How do individual states get away with this without the feds swooping in? The amusing answer is something like: Eh, turns out that the feds are pretty understaffed. Jonah then moves on to his role - well-known among the Remnant fan base - as Inquisitor of Libertarians, figuring out how Adler feels about total drug legalization. He gives one of

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The Story of Schizophrenia: with @bobkolker, Stefan McDonough, and @omnivorousread In this episode, we dive into the remarkable story of one American family, the Galvins: Mimi, Don, and their 12 children, 6 of whom were afflicted with schizophrenia. Robert Kolker follows the Galvin's from the 1950s to today, through, he writes, "the eras of institutionalization and shock therapy, the debates between psycho-therapy versus medication, the needle-in-a-haystack search for genetic markers for the disease, and the profound disagreements about the cause and origin of the illness itself." So this conversation, with a16z's Hanne Tidnam, is more than a portrait of one family; it covers all of how we have struggled over the last decades to understand this mysterious and devastating mental illness: the biology of it, the drivers, the behaviors and pathology, the genomics, and of course the search for treatments that might help, from lobotomies to ECT to thorazine.

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The Story of Schizophrenia: Descriptions of the mental illness we today call schizophrenia are as old as humankind itself. And more than likely, we are are all familiar with this disease in some way, as it touches 1% of us—millions of lives—and of course, their families. In this episode, we dive into the remarkable story of one such American family, the Galvins: Mimi, Don, and their 12 children, 6 of whom were afflicted with schizophrenia. In his book, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Robert Kolker follows the Galvins from the 1950s to today—through, he writes, “the eras of institutionalization and shock therapy, the debates between psycho-therapy versus medication, the needle-in-a-haystack search for genetic markers for the disease, and the profound disagreements about the cause and origin of the illness itself.” Because of that, this is really more than just a portrait of one family; it’s a portrait of how we have struggled over the last decades to understa

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Dan Peres: From Opiod Slave To Sober Salvation

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Drugs, Prohibition, and the Suburban Overdose Crisis with Mark Thornton: Mark Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the author of many books, including The Economics of Prohibition (which you can access for free here), which is also the topic of this episode. 1. Does drug prohibition help stop poverty...

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The free market economics of synthetic opioids (with Sam Quinones)