Prologue

Producer Zoe Chace with a political fable that she noticed playing out last week in North Carolina. (11 minutes)Zoe covered Mark Harris’ election fraud case in the podcast The Improvement Association by Serial Productions and The New York Times.

Two college friends try to stop Donald Trump’s primary season momentum by convincing New Hampshire voters to vote against everything they care about.

At the start of the year, Warren Carpenter was a Kristina Karamo supporter; helped her get elected.

Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval.

Often bypassing logic, the women go to great lengths to construct elaborate stories to make sense of their inexplicable pain.

Susan Burton is a couple years into recovery from the eating disorder she’s had for decades.