Fiasco

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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.   

  • 33 minutes 11 seconds
    From Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders

    Here's a preview of a podcast we think you'll enjoy. It's from the new season of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast, The Alabama Murders. Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched — victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should kill them. On The Alabama Murders, Malcolm asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we so often make it worse?

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    30 October 2025, 4:01 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Benghazi: Episode 6 - Radicals

    The Tea Party takes over the search for the truth about Benghazi, while the FBI pursues a Libyan militia leader suspected of planning the attack.

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    6 October 2025, 4:01 am
  • 58 minutes 7 seconds
    Benghazi: Episode 5 - Greatest Hits

    As the political world looks toward the 2016 Presidential election, Benghazi becomes a Clinton scandal.

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    29 September 2025, 4:01 am
  • 53 minutes 16 seconds
    Benghazi: Episode 4 - Feckless

    How the attack in Benghazi collided with an American election, and how the seeds of a scandal were planted.

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    22 September 2025, 4:01 am
  • 52 minutes 26 seconds
    Benghazi: Episode 3 - Barefoot

    An anti-Islamic video sparks protests in the Middle East, and the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi comes under attack.

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    15 September 2025, 4:01 am
  • 57 minutes 19 seconds
    Benghazi: Episode 2 - We Will Stay Here

    Libya is swept up in a wave of revolution, and an American diplomat makes his mark on Benghazi.

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    8 September 2025, 3:45 am
  • 48 minutes 9 seconds
    Benghazi: Episode 1 - The Dictator

    How a prison massacre carried out under Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, set the stage for the Benghazi attack.

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    8 September 2025, 3:30 am
  • 3 minutes 41 seconds
    Introducing Fiasco: Benghazi

    Fiasco: Benghazi unpacks the 2012 attack in Libya that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens—and the ensuing political storm, which raised questions about America’s role in the world, established a playbook to weaponize attention in the social media age, and ultimately changed the course of U.S. history.

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    25 August 2025, 4:01 am
  • 50 minutes 8 seconds
    Iran Contra: Episode 8 - Pardon Me

    How George H.W. Bush ended Iran-Contra.

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    26 May 2025, 4:01 am
  • 38 minutes 54 seconds
    Iran Contra: Episode 7 - Olliewood

    How Hollywood tried to capitalize on Iran-Contra -- and why the story didn’t take.

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    19 May 2025, 4:01 am
  • 45 minutes 26 seconds
    Iran Contra: Episode 6 - Fault Lines

    How the Iran-Contra hearings made Oliver North an icon, and got Ronald Reagan off the hook.

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    12 May 2025, 4:01 am
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