Diane Wu

Just one box of a specially enriched peanut butter paste can save the life of a severely malnourished child. So why have 500,000 of those boxes been stuck in warehouses in Rhode Island? (13 minutes) USAID was founded in 1961. Since then, it has spent hundreds of billions of dollars all over the world. What did that get us? Producer David Kestenbaum talked with Joshua Craze and John Norris about that.

Producer Diane Wu travels to Minnesota, where the turkey set to be pardoned by The President of the United States later this month is having the turkiness trained out of him. (10 minutes)

Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION. In the middle of the night, host Ira Glass meets a woman on a mission at Port Authority bus station. (13 minutes) Producer Valerie Kipnis follows a group of people who’ve just arrived at their new home, a tent shelter in the middle of nowhere. (11 minutes) Reporting help from Jika Gonzalez. Producer Diane Wu talks to an asylum seeker trying to hustle his way through bureaucratic limbo.