Stories about people and places that are fronting in order to hide the truth. We visit a bizarre store in Milwaukee called Fearless Distributing, government checkpoints scattered on highways out west, and a front in a doctor's office.
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WTF, ATF?
After John and Raquel published their story, the U.S. Congress got involved. And they found some very surprising things happening in other parts of the country. (10 minutes)
The Border Between America and America
If you haven't spent much time in the southwest, you may not know about this, but there are these border patrol checkpoints that are just in the middle of interstate highways and other roads... not at the border. They're as far as a hundred miles away. Reporter Debbie Nathan used to go through these checkpoints regularly when she lived in El Paso in the '80s and '90s. But not long ago, she discovered something that made her see the checkpoints in a whole new way.
Debbie Nathan did another version of this story which broadcast on Latino USA. (25 minutes)
Ellis Island
Ayelet Waldman says her dad is a bookish man ... a very smart man ... but no man is everything his kids want him to be. (9 minutes)
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