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The Experiment
The Experiment
The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

Each week, we tell the story of what happens when individual people confront deeply held American ideals in their own lives. We're... more

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Episodes

The Experiment Introduces More Perfect

Host Julia Longoria is back with a new season of More Perfect, from WNYC Studios. We’re taught the Supreme Court was... more

12 May 2023 · 8 minutes
The End of This Experiment

The Experiment is coming to an end. For our final episode, we contemplate our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country.... more

02 Jun 2022 · 14 minutes
The Experiment Introduces: How To Start Over With Olga Khazan

In The Atlantic’s new series How To Start Over, Olga Khazan takes listeners on a journey of reinvention. How To... more

27 May 2022 · 1 minute
The 50-Square-Mile Zone Where the Constitution Doesn't Apply

Deep in Yellowstone National Park, there’s a glitch in the U.S. Constitution where, technically, you could get away with murder.... more

26 May 2022 · 33 minutes
Fighting to Remember Mississippi Burning

In June 1964, at the height of the civil-rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan burned a Black Methodist church to... more

19 May 2022 · 31 minutes
Teenage Life After Genocide

At 19 years old, Aséna Tahir Izgil feels wise beyond her years. She is Uyghur, an ethnic minority persecuted in... more

12 May 2022 · 47 minutes
Judge Judy’s Law

Almost 30 years ago, a fed-up Manhattan-family-court judge named Judith Sheindlin was sitting in her chambers when she got a... more

05 May 2022 · 47 minutes
The Experiment introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

The Experiment introduces WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon's new podcast: Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery New Jersey politics is not... more

28 Apr 2022 · 2 minutes
The Resurgence of the Abortion Underground

There’s a common story about abortion in this country, that people have only two options to intentionally end a pregnancy:... more

22 Apr 2022 · 32 minutes
Should We Return National Parks to Native Americans?

The national-park system has been touted as “America’s best idea.” David Treuer, an Ojibwe historian and the author of The... more

14 Apr 2022 · 24 minutes
Who Belongs in the Cherokee Nation?

From the time she was a little girl, Marilyn Vann knew she was Black and she was Cherokee. But when... more

07 Apr 2022 · 38 minutes
The Helen Keller Exorcism

The fantasy writer Elsa Sjunneson has been haunted by Helen Keller for nearly her entire life. Elsa is Deafblind, and... more

24 Mar 2022 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
An Engineer Tries to Build His Way Out of Tragedy

James Sulzer has always loved building things. As a rehabilitation engineer, he spent years creating devices that he hoped would... more

17 Mar 2022 · 27 minutes
One American Family’s Debt to Ukraine

As Putin invaded Ukraine last month, the Atlantic writer Franklin Foer found the Russian leader’s justification for violence uncanny. Putin... more

10 Mar 2022 · 36 minutes
Just Put Some Vicks on It

The Experiment host Julia Longoria has always had a special relationship with Vicks Vaporub—the scent transports her right back to... more

24 Feb 2022 · 27 minutes
El Sueño de SPAM

Who are the people who make modern-day SPAM possible? You can find clues on the streets of downtown Austin, Minnesota.... more

17 Feb 2022 · 47 minutes
Cram Your SPAM

SPAM is at the center of one of the longest and most contentious labor battles in U.S. history. In 1985,... more

10 Feb 2022 · 46 minutes
Uncle SPAM

During World War II, wherever American troops spread democracy, they left the canned meat known as SPAM in its wake.... more

03 Feb 2022 · 26 minutes
SPAM on the Range

America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? Thou art more decadent, salty and sweet, container of even... more

27 Jan 2022 · 2 minutes
In Between Pro-life and Pro-choice

Rebecca Shrader had always thought that abortion was morally wrong. As a devout Baptist Christian, she volunteered at a clinic... more

16 Dec 2021 · 37 minutes
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From the time she was a little girl, Marilyn Vann knew she was Black and she was Cherokee. But when she applied... more