The Subway Vigilante Shooting (1984) w/ Leon ...

For the twelfth episode of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to 1911 and the massive fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The fire started on the 8th floor, spread to the 9th and 10th, and would lead to deaths of almost 150 people, mostly po ...  Show more

**One week only, get a 20% discount on the newsletter using this link! thisdaypod.substack.com/35c7aaa4**For our "Sunday Context" episode, we go back to an episode from week two (!) of this podcast to look at the controversy over Obama's "cling to guns and religion" comments. Plu ...  Show more

Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto and the ideas he presented as justifications for his killings have become more mainstream. We sat down with Candice DeLong, one of the FBI agents who helped capture Kaczynski in 199 ...  Show more

This week: Allison and Andy new chief judge for the DC District Court that will be overseeing Jack Smith’s Grand Juries; some new insights on trump lawyers Boris Epshteyn & Evan Corcoran; plus listener questions. Do you have questions about the cases and investigations? Click her ...  Show more

Last year, a committee of state lawmakers in Texas issued a subpoena for a man on death row to testify four days after he was scheduled to be executed. Today, what happened next in Robert Roberson's case. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occas ...  Show more

The first episode in our intermittent National Series covers the unsolved murder of Leon Laureles, who was living and working in Brown County, TX, at the time of his 1996 murder. Though it has never been officially labeled as such, many view his unsolved homicide as a hate crime. ...  Show more