Us & Them

By Trey Kay and WVPB

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We tell stories from the fault lines that separate Americans. Peabody Award-winning public radio producer Trey Kay listens to people on both sides of the divide.


Episode Date
Us & Them: Our Foster Care Crisis
Apr 24, 2024
Us & Them: Locked Out Of Voting?
Apr 11, 2024
Us & Them: Another Small Town Paper Down
Mar 26, 2024
Us & Them Encore: Dicamba Woes
Mar 13, 2024
Us & Them: Navigating Post-Pandemic Medicaid
Feb 21, 2024
Us & Them: The Geography of Abortion
Feb 07, 2024
Us & Them: Expungement — Between Hope and Danger
Jan 24, 2024
Us & Them: Caught Between Two Worlds
Jan 10, 2024
Us & Them: 2023 Had Some Serious Trust Issues
Dec 21, 2023
Us & Them: Bidding Farewell To My Unlikely Friend, Alice Moore
Dec 13, 2023
Us & Them: Diminished Trust In Science
Nov 21, 2023
Us & Them: Potluck & Politics
Nov 08, 2023
Us & Them: Diminished Trust In The News Media
Oct 25, 2023
To Friend or Unfriend? That Is The Question
Oct 11, 2023
Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars In West Virginia
Sep 27, 2023
Trust: East Palestinians Not On The Same Track
Sep 13, 2023
Us & Them Encore: The Right To Compete
Aug 23, 2023
Us & Them Encore: Leaving The White Bubble
Aug 09, 2023
Us & Them Encore: Court of Second Chances?
Jul 26, 2023
Us & Them: SNAP — Do The Hungry Get More Policy Than Nutrician?
Jul 12, 2023
Us & Them: Who Gets Stuck Behind Bars In West Virginia?
Jun 21, 2023
Us & Them: Larry Bellorín’s Unwritten Song
Jun 07, 2023
Us & Them: The ‘Toxic Stew’ Of School Discipline
May 24, 2023
A Fiddler Contemplates The Fate of the Mountain State
May 10, 2023
Us & Them Encore: The Gun Divide
Apr 26, 2023
Diminishing OB Care In Rural America
Apr 11, 2023
Changing A State's Mind About Health
Mar 23, 2023
Compassion Fatigue
Mar 08, 2023
Us & Them: Re-Entry
Feb 22, 2023
The Fight For The Youth Vote
Feb 08, 2023
The Housing Struggle
Jan 25, 2023
Finding Your Family
Jan 06, 2023
2023: Where Do We Go From Here?
Dec 19, 2022
Court of Second Chances?
Dec 07, 2022
Reimagining A Region
Nov 21, 2022
Us & Them: Post-Roe Mountain State
Nov 09, 2022
Please Pass The Politics
Oct 26, 2022
Manchin Is Us & Them
Oct 05, 2022
Manchin In The Middle
Sep 21, 2022
Do We Have A Hearing Problem?
Sep 07, 2022
Us & Them Encore: Blair Mountain
Aug 24, 2022
Us & Them Encore: The Dental Gap
Aug 10, 2022
The Right To Compete
Jul 27, 2022
Us & Them Encore: Kingwood March Exposed a Raw Seam of Rage
Jul 13, 2022
Vaccines: Now For Us, Later for Them
Jun 22, 2022
Doctors Hit Socials To Cure Disinformation
Jun 07, 2022
The Gun Divide
May 25, 2022
Dicamba: Things Have Gotten A Bit Ugly
May 12, 2022
Us & Them: Who Can We Trust?
Apr 28, 2022
Us & Them: Books Under Fire
Apr 14, 2022
Us & Them: Critical Race Theory
Mar 23, 2022
Historically Black Currently Adapting
Mar 10, 2022
Moving the Needle
Feb 24, 2022
Remembering The Augusta Riot
Feb 10, 2022
Can Childhood Trauma Limit The Future?
Jan 27, 2022
Vaccine Inequities Have Consequences
Jan 13, 2022
Vax Scapegoat?
Dec 21, 2021
Leaving The White Bubble
Dec 09, 2021
A Platefull of Politics
Nov 23, 2021
Last Man Honored
Nov 10, 2021
West Virginia's Charter School Era Begins
Oct 28, 2021
Fighting to Learn
Oct 06, 2021
Juvie: Why are so many young West Virginians incarcerated and at what cost?
Sep 22, 2021
Blair Mountain
Sep 09, 2021
Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis
Aug 26, 2021
Hillers & Creekers
Aug 12, 2021
The Stigma of Sobriety
Jul 22, 2021
A Band On The Right Side Of History
Jul 08, 2021
Who's Gonna Take Care Of Maw Maw?
Jun 24, 2021
The Dental Gap
Jun 09, 2021
Disconnected Youth: No Job, No School, No Plan
May 27, 2021
Stay or Go?
May 05, 2021
When Will We Trust Again?
Apr 22, 2021
Pocahontas County Contradiction — Sure, They Can Hear Mars, But Dependable Broadband Seems Like A Galaxy Away
Apr 11, 2021
We've Lost & We've Learned In The Year of COVID-19
Mar 25, 2021
Fatal Overdoses: Pandemic is Especially Deadly for West Virginians Battling Addictions
Mar 10, 2021
COVID-19 Exposes Racial Inequities
Feb 25, 2021
Grandfamilies and the Pandemic
Feb 10, 2021
Clarity on COVID-19
Feb 02, 2021
Us & Them: Shelter From The Virus
Jan 27, 2021
Kingwood March Exposed a Raw Seam of Rage
Jan 13, 2021
Sink or Swim
Dec 31, 2020
Forced Apart: Faith Tested
Dec 16, 2020
Dessert & Dialogue
Dec 09, 2020
Forced Apart: Cornucopia of Change
Nov 23, 2020
Forced Apart: Can Our Economy Rebound Without Reliable, Safe Child Care?
Nov 11, 2020
Us & Them: Let Us 'Bind Up The Nation's Wounds'
Nov 04, 2020
Breaking Bread, Talking Politics
Oct 22, 2020
Us & Them: Working Man vs. The Political Machine
Oct 07, 2020
Forced Apart: An Ailing Economy -- Is Workforce Training The Cure?
Sep 24, 2020
Can a White Supremacist Alter Her DNA of Hate?
Sep 09, 2020
Forced Apart: The 'Delicate and Crazy Dance' of American Health Care
Aug 27, 2020
The Vaccination Divide
Aug 05, 2020
Recovery and Resiliency in Kermit
Jul 22, 2020
Forced Apart: Quarantine and the Danger of Eating Disorders
Jul 08, 2020
Us & Them: Abortion Divides
Jul 02, 2020
Forced Apart: Shadow Pandemic
Jun 25, 2020
The Black Talk
Jun 19, 2020
COVID-19 Takes A Toll On Our Food Supply
Jun 10, 2020
Coronavirus Czar Says Pandemic is a Stress Test for WV Health Care
Jun 03, 2020
Forced Apart: Same Pandemic, Unequal Education
May 28, 2020
The Legacy of the Upper Big Branch Disaster
May 13, 2020
Nurse Eva Travels to a COVID-19 Front Line
Apr 30, 2020
Forced Apart: A Virus Creates New Divides
Apr 23, 2020
The Connector
Apr 08, 2020
Upriver Battle: Two Mayors Join Forces to Revive Their Rural Small Towns Against All Odds
Mar 26, 2020
Without A Home Can You Be A Good Neighbor?
Mar 11, 2020
Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis
Feb 27, 2020
Diversity Divide
Feb 12, 2020
Should History Be Set In Stone?
Jan 23, 2020
Indian Country Relocation: A One-way Ticket to Poverty
Jan 08, 2020
Music with a Message
Dec 26, 2019
We The Purple
Dec 12, 2019
Us & Them: Abortion Divides
Nov 27, 2019
The Bond Buster Says ‘No’ to Public Schools
Nov 06, 2019
Three Tales of Coal
Oct 24, 2019
Losing It All: Natural Disasters and America’s Immigrant Worker
Oct 09, 2019
Us & Them Update: A Surprising Ending to Justice for James Means
Oct 05, 2019
Faith in Science
Sep 26, 2019
Update: Killer of James Means Changes His Mind…Again.
Sep 21, 2019
Update: Farm Wars
Sep 11, 2019
Update: Killer of James Means Seeks to Revoke Plea
Aug 14, 2019
What, Us Worry?: Life After MAD
Aug 09, 2019
Update: Justice for James Means
Aug 07, 2019
My Friend From Camp
Jul 25, 2019
Immigrant ‘Concentration Camps’ on the Southern Border?
Jul 10, 2019
Pride in the Mountain State
Jun 26, 2019
Reckoning with Sexual Assault: Righting a Wrong
Jun 13, 2019
Farm Wars
May 22, 2019
Still Waiting For Justice
May 08, 2019
Waiting for Justice
Apr 24, 2019
Opioid Recovery in Appalachia's Ground Zero
Apr 11, 2019
States Look to Appalachia for Vaccination Laws
Mar 29, 2019
Reconnecting With Femme Voice
Mar 13, 2019
Scarlet Letters and Second Chances
Feb 27, 2019
Black Talk
Feb 13, 2019
Cave Men, The Patriarchy & Fairytales
Jan 30, 2019
My Friend From Camp
Jan 14, 2019
War on Christmas…Really? 2018
Dec 18, 2018
Culture Clash: Back to the Border
Dec 05, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.10 -- Origins of the Epidemic
Nov 30, 2018
The Great Textbook War
Nov 21, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.9 -- Make applebutter, not war
Nov 21, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.8 -- The Media
Nov 16, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.7 -- Two Views
Nov 09, 2018
Reading Wars
Nov 07, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.6 -- Deana & Linda
Nov 02, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.5 -- Immigration
Oct 26, 2018
"Steve"
Oct 25, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.4 -- Coal: Hero or Villain?
Oct 19, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.3 -- Why is Joe Manchin a Democrat?
Oct 12, 2018
Rural Voters: You Can't Ignore Us
Oct 10, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.2 -- The future of the Supreme Court
Oct 05, 2018
EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.1
Sep 28, 2018
And Now... on the Radio!
Sep 27, 2018
‘Us’ Music: a Conversation with Stephan Said
Sep 12, 2018
Shack!
Aug 29, 2018
Hillers and Creekers
Aug 15, 2018
The Church Lady
Aug 01, 2018
Gentrification (or that Kumbaya moment)
Jul 18, 2018
The Elephant in the Classroom
Jul 04, 2018
Housing in Paradise
Jun 21, 2018
Revisiting the Grand Palace
Jun 06, 2018
Love, the Ayatollah, and Revolution
May 23, 2018
Touching the Third Rail with Katharine Hayhoe
May 09, 2018
Heroin: N'ganga Dimitri
Apr 25, 2018
Under the Microscope: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Apr 11, 2018
EXTRA CUTS: My Friend From Camp
Apr 05, 2018
My Friend From Camp
Mar 29, 2018
A Suburb of Hell
Mar 15, 2018
The Black Talk
Feb 28, 2018
The "Talk"
Feb 14, 2018
Trapped on the Turnpike
Feb 01, 2018
Panhandlers: To Give Or Not to Give?
Jan 17, 2018
A New Year, A Reprise, Amazing Grace
Jan 04, 2018
Feminism Is The Word
Dec 21, 2017
His Name's DJ
Dec 07, 2017
Killing James Means
Nov 20, 2017
The Church Lady
Nov 08, 2017
Community and Cops Talking Across the Divide
Oct 25, 2017
A Policeman is a Person in Your Neighborhood, In Your Neighborhood, In Your Neigh-bor-hoo-ood!
Oct 12, 2017
Shack! - A Civil Rights Story
Sep 27, 2017
Two Tales of Coal
Sep 12, 2017
Hillers & Creekers!
Aug 23, 2017
Confederate Reckoning: When Will The Civil War End?
Aug 17, 2017
Remembering New Math & Common Core
Aug 03, 2017
Deanna, Tymel & Amarie
Jul 18, 2017
Amazing Grace
Jul 01, 2017
Sodomy, Stonewall & Pride
Jun 19, 2017
The Elephant in the (Class) Room: How I Survived Iraq and Vassar College
Jun 01, 2017
Gentrification: That Kumbayah Moment
May 20, 2017
What I Learned About Empathy from a Textbook
Apr 24, 2017
Reasserting Femme Voice
Apr 05, 2017
Love, the Ayatollah & Revolution
Feb 15, 2017
Coming Out of the Closet
Jan 25, 2017
Serious as a Heart Attack
Dec 14, 2016
Taking an Ass Whoopin’
Nov 15, 2016
Hello Mary Lou...
May 21, 2016
The Changing Face of Heroin
Apr 26, 2016
Heroin I - N'ganga Dimitri
Mar 22, 2016
Femme Voice
Feb 29, 2016
Shack!
Feb 05, 2016
Trapped on the Turnpike
Feb 03, 2016
The Refugee Trail with Scott Carrier
Jan 17, 2016
War on Christmas…Really?
Dec 21, 2015
Islamophobia
Dec 10, 2015
Atheism
Nov 19, 2015
Enemies
Nov 06, 2015
Locked Up For Sodomy
Oct 15, 2015
A Confederate Reckoning
Oct 03, 2015
Strangers With Cameras In Appalachia
Sep 17, 2015
New Math
Sep 01, 2015
Textbook Watchdogs
Aug 16, 2015
The Church Lady
Jul 31, 2015
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Jul 15, 2015
In Dixieland, I'll Take My Stand
Jun 26, 2015
Sex Ed for Grown-ups
Jun 15, 2015
The Talk
Jun 01, 2015
To Give or Not to Give
May 15, 2015
Revisiting the Grand Palace
May 01, 2015
The Great Textbook War
May 01, 2015
Marrying Gays When It Wasn't Cool - Rev. Jim Lewis
May 01, 2015
Trey & Alice
May 01, 2015