Rights & Wrongs Podcast
1) Rerun: The Chalk Bicycle
Since April 2023, more than a half-million people have been displaced in Sudan due to fighting between two armed forces who were once aligned. The story of how the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces an...Show More
2) Rerun: Protesting a Dictatorship in a Dictatorship
In the early aughts, a campaign to “Save Sudan” became the bipartisan issue of the time. Celebrities and politicians alike implored a global audience to pay attention to and advocate against...Show More
3) ICE Detention: Forced to Eat Like a Dog Out of a Bowl
When Harpinder Chauhan walked into his probation officer’s office in Florida, he thought it was just another check-in. Minutes later, he was in handcuffs and detained by ICE. In this episode of Rights...Show More
4) From Nazis to Late Night: Why Free Speech Matters
In 1977, American Nazis fought for the right to march in Skokie, Illinois—a town filled with Holocaust survivors—and won. Nearly fifty years later, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended...Show More
5) Hunted From Above
What’s the scariest sound in a war zone? In Kherson, Ukraine, it isn’t artillery or fighter jets—it’s the faint buzz of a $200 quadcopter drone. In this episode of Rights & Wrongs, host Ngofeen Mputub...Show More
6) Loaded Gun Recap: El Salvador, the Alien Enemies Act, and What Happened to Roger
Roger and Daniela arrived in the U.S. in January, conditionally approved as refugees. Hours later, she was deported. Roger vanished. When Rights & Wrongs first aired this story in May, it traced...Show More
7) “Why Are You Gay?” -- From Viral Clip to State-Sanctioned Violence
In 2012, a Ugandan TV host asked trans activist Pepe Julian Onziema a now-infamous question: “Why are you gay?” The clip went viral, spawning internet fodder around the world – but behind the memes li...Show More
8) From Mass Graves to Mass Incarceration: Recap
Last year, we told the story of how President Nayib Bukele came to power in El Salvador on a promise of ending gang violence. He succeeded, turning a state that was the world’s murder capital into one...Show More
9) Duterte in the Dock: A Landmark Arrest
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office with a vow to eliminate illegal drugs. His “war on drugs” resulted in the brutal killing of between 12,000 and 30,000 people. Despite the inter...Show More
10) One Authoritarian's Playbook
You’ve probably heard that authoritarianism is on the rise across the globe. Increasingly, countries are adopting policies that undermine democracy, reduce accountability, and erode civil liberties an...Show More