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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, August 30, 2025


** Will the National Parks Survive Trump?
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From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history.

Reporter Heath Druzin hikes deep into Yellowstone National Park’s backcountry with biologist Doug Smith, who helped reintroduce wolves to the park 30 years ago. The program transformed the ecosystem but could be at risk in future rounds of budget cuts.

Also particularly at risk: biologists and other scientists whose conservation work happens behind the scenes. Reveal’s Nadia Hamdan talks to Andria Townsend, a carnivore biologist at Yosemite National Park who tracks endangered fishers and Sierra Nevada red foxes.

“I would say myself and every other federal employee has not felt safe in their position,” Townsend says. “It makes it challenging to feel that same passion and drive that you maybe had for your work before.”

Meanwhile in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, reporter Najib Aminy attends a Civil War reenactment. He meets hobbyists and historians grappling with a new executive order from the Trump administration that directs the National Park Service to strip away what it calls “partisan ideology” from monuments and signage.

This week on Reveal: what’s really at stake in the battle over America’s parks.
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** Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery
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Hi, it’s Al Letson, host of Reveal and More To The Story.

A few years back, we produced one of my all-time favorite projects here at Reveal. It’s called American Rehab ([link removed]) . It’s an eight-part series about how the underregulated drug rehab industry in the US often exploits people battling substance abuse.

The series focused on how one form of treatment for drug addiction turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce, and it included one of the most memorable characters I’ve ever heard in a podcast. (See: Kandy Latson, episode 2 ([link removed]) .)

One of the producers and reporters on that project was Shoshana Walter, now a staff writer at The Marshall Project and author of Rehab: An American Scandal, a new book about the rehab industry that has its roots in our series.

Sho’s book is all about America’s failed response to the opioid crisis and how treatment in the US too often fuels relapse and overdose rather than recovery. It’s well worth your attention—and so is our conversation on this week’s More To The Story ([link removed]) .

Sho and I talk about how she started working on this underreported story, the many theories about why overdose rates have finally started falling in America, and the stark racial disparity in how lawmakers have approached the opioid crisis compared with the crack epidemic in the 1980s.

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** 🎧 Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act ([link removed])
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New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie examines the conservative movement’s yearslong effort to challenge the right to vote across the country.
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** 🎧 A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided ([link removed])
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A video leaks of a wealthy politician describing how he adopted a Native child, leading to outrage from the child’s biological family and members of her tribe.

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** 🎧 Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work. ([link removed])
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Clinical psychologist Sam Tsemberis explains how his Housing First approach to homelessness went from receiving bipartisan support to being abandoned by the Trump administration.

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Tasers were billed as a weapon that could subdue but not kill. The company’s own research told another story.

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