Know That You Are Unprecedentedly Negative

Six million Syrians fled the country after the start of its civil war.

Producer Nancy Updike tells the story of the people of Venezuela trying to prove who won their recent presidential election beyond a shadow of a doubt. (22 minutes)

Host Ira Glass spent America’s presidential election in the swing state of Michigan, where he found very little dispute over the ballot count from Republican poll challengers in Detroit now that they are doing the counting themselves. (8 minutes)

David Kestenbaum desperately wants to set the record straight for everybody about whether aliens regularly visit earth.

Senior Editor David Kestenbaum talks with a different kind of advocacy group: animal scientists doing their best to save a particular species before it winks out of existence. (16 minutes)

Senior editor David Kestenbaum helps his kids set up an ant farm.