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The Harvard Plan: Jay & Alan
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The Harvard Plan: Jay & Alan

Harvard president Alan Garber and National Institutes of Health head Jay Bhattacharya are two main characters at the heart of the national fight over the future of academia. Alan Garber has been cast as the defender of academic freedom and democracy; Jay Bhattacharya is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the NIH, the agency withholding billions of dollars in research grants from Harvard. Oddly enough, the two men go way back: Garber was Bhattacharya’s undergraduate thesis advisor and mentor in the late 1980s. This episode tells the story of how the two men found themselves adversaries — and what it means for the future of science. Find more On the Media every week, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715

The Harvard Plan: Jay & Alan

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The Harvard Plan: And so it begins…
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The Harvard Plan: And so it begins…

The Harvard Plan, a collaboration between On the Media and The Boston Globe, is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. In the new season, they explore what has unfolded at Harvard since Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Three main characters, inside Harvard, tell the story from their perspective: politics professor Ryan Enos, genetics professor and cancer researcher Kamila Naxerova and campus conservative Kit Parker, lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve and Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics. Find more On the Media every week, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715.

The Harvard Plan: And so it begins…

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Alternate Realities: A Question for Listeners

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Alternate Realities: A Question for Listeners

After we released Alternate Realities, hundreds of listeners reached out, sharing stories about friends and family members who had also fallen under the spell of conspiracy theories. Many of them had tried everything they could think of to get that person back... and failed.

Alternate Realities: A Question for Listeners

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Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

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Behind the Scenes: Reporting on "The Network" in Latin America (Embedded+)

In this bonus episode of The Network, hosts Marta Martinez and Victoria Estrada discuss what it took to report this series from multiple countries. In this conversation, Marta and Victoria talk to Maria Hinojosa, the host of Futuro Media's Latino USA — Embedded's production partner for the series.

Behind the Scenes: Reporting on "The Network" in Latin America (Embedded+)

Behind the Scenes: Reporting on "The Network" in the US (Embedded+)

In this bonus episode of The Network, lead producer Abby Wendle discusses her years of reporting on the growth and acceptance of self-managed abortion in the US, even among doctors. In this conversation, Abby talks to Maria Hinojosa, the host of Futuro Media's Latino USA — Embedded's production partner for the series.

Behind the Scenes: Reporting on "The Network" in the US (Embedded+)

The Network: Déjà vu
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The Network: Déjà vu

Part 3: The network and its method took off in countries where women didn't have a legal option for abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many Americans have found themselves in that very situation.

The Network: Déjà vu

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The Network: Breaking Bread
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The Network: Breaking Bread

Part 2: The network had developed a method that had the potential to get women widespread access to safe abortions. But to make that happen, a whisper network wasn't enough.

The Network: Breaking Bread

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The Network: Saint-o-tec
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The Network: Saint-o-tec

Part 1: In the mid-1980s, an OBGYN in Brazil noticed that far fewer pregnant women at his hospital were dying from abortion complications. It wasn't a coincidence.

The Network: Saint-o-tec

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Introducing "The Network" from NPR and Futuro Media
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Introducing "The Network" from NPR and Futuro Media

Decades ago, Brazilian women made a discovery that allowed them to have safe abortions without a doctor, regardless of the law. Now, as abortion restrictions rise across the United States, their method is shaping how American women have abortions, too.

Introducing "The Network" from NPR and Futuro Media

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