How I Read It

Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect. Prologue: Host Ira Glass finds the men behind a bot, whose job was to generate random inspirational quotes and images. But the bot ended up making something more surprising. (10 minutes) The Veritas Is Out There: There’s a lawsuit going on between Harvard and some Asian American students who say the admissions process discriminates against them. Producer Diane Wu looks at one student’s admissions file. (25 minutes) Know That You Are Unprecedentedly Negative: When health care premiums went up in New York State, a bunch of people got mad and wrote letters to the state. Producer David Kestenbaum takes us into the raw world of these letters. (15 minutes) Bladen Runner: What one professor saw in voter registrations that others didn’t. (6 minutes)