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Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit
Oct 21, 2025On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an op...
London Falling: How the Birthplace of Free Speech Became a Censor’s Paradise
Oct 15, 2025Once, Britain was the cradle of free speech- the land of Milton, Orwell, and John Stuart Mill. But in 2025, police are arresting citizens for tweets, comedians are detained for jokes, and ordinary peo...
James Comey: The Case That Could Break America
Oct 01, 2025James Comey isn’t a hero. But prosecuting him like this? It’s not justice—it’s political theater. In this episode, we tell the origin story of Comey, the now indicted former FBI chief, and unpack the ...
Defying the Assassin’s Veto: Grace in a Time of Violence
Sep 17, 2025In a week when political violence has returned to the national stage, we revisit a moment from the 1970s when Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman, visited segregationist Alabama governor G...
How a Russian Spy Destroyed a Beautiful Mind
Sep 03, 2025This week Breaking History dives into a century-old mind game: Russia’s information war against America. More specifically, how it keeps driving us crazy. From Soviet spycraft to this summer’s Russiag...
The Birth of Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
Aug 20, 2025How did air conditioning go from a niche invention for factories to a force that reshaped cities, industries, and even human behavior? In this episode of Breaking History, we dive deep into the sur...
Restless Nation | The Red-Green Alliance: The Making of Modern Iran (Part 2)
Aug 06, 2025In our last episode, we traced the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and the forces building toward Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. This week, we turn to the man who brought that monarchy to an end: Ayat...
BONUS | Eli Lake & Josh Hammer on Russiagate: Do the New Documents Support Treason?
Jul 30, 2025Do the new Russiagate releases justify Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s accusation of “treasonous conspiracy”? In this bonus episode, Eli Lake and commentator Josh Hammer get into the...
Restless Nation | The Making of Modern Iran (Part 1)
Jul 16, 2025Breaking History dives into the paradox at the heart of modern Iran: How a nation born in revolt, from the tobacco protests of the 1890s to the 1979 Revolution, has time and again empowered autocrats ...
America Has Always Been a Dangerous Idea
Jul 03, 2025As our nation turns 249 this week, we explore the radical and enduring power of the Declaration of Independence. More than just a break from the British Empire, the Declaration was a bold statement of...