When death is your career

Weddings are meant to be joyful milestones and a chance to show up for the people we love. But for many people today, being a part of a wedding can come with multi-day trips, expensive outfits, and financial pressure that leads to years of debt. Reema is joined by cultural commen ...  Show more

Unfortunately, a lot of us know someone who has been scammed… but how many scammers do you know? After reporter Carlos Barragán’s mother fell victim to an online romance scam, he traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to investigate the world of “Yahoo Boys,” as Nigerian scammers call thems ...  Show more

Hi friends, happy Tuesday!In the late 1800s, Amelia Dyer ran a group home for infants called a "baby farm"... But instead of helping these babies, what she did was unthinkable...Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, ma ...  Show more

Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or "Can you feel each other's pain?" Two of our Planet Money reporters are twins, and they have heard them all.But it's not just strangers on the street who are fascinated by twins. Scienti ...  Show more

Childhood friendships are often the most formative of our lives. But they change and evolve as we get older and enter different seasons. Maureen, Anne and Amanda have been friends since kindergarten. As adults, their friendships ebbed, and flowed as they went to college, started ...  Show more

Thirteen-year-old Ashley Howes was a mother’s helper for Morningstar Garden, a family friend, over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend in 2005. A change of plans put Ashley in sole charge of two children: five-year-old Madeline and 19-month-old Freya. While Morningstar an ...  Show more