Terry Gross

Reid's book, Medgar and Myrlie, tells the stories of the civil rights leader from Mississippi and his wife, who became an activist after Medgar's 1963 assassination. Originally broadcast Feb. 7, 2024.

New Yorker writer Sarah Stillman found dozens of cases of people with mental illness arrested for minor crimes and of deprived medication and healthcare. They died from malnutrition and dehydration.

In 'The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West', Shaun Walker shares how agents were trained to blend into a target country and pose as citizens.