Kyle Pyatt

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as they get organized and demand raises from their state legislature. From crowded classrooms to a packed state capitol, Walkout offers an in-depth, personal look at the latest strike at the heart of a nationwide movement for education funding.

A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the origins of a looming structure known as the Rockpile.

In St. Louis County, the home of police-shooting victim Michael Brown, a practice with a long history has become systematic: the operation of modern-day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two plaintiffs in an unfolding court case, Samantha Jenkins and Meredith Walker, as they describe the matrix of controls that subjected them to incarceration for being poor.

Investigative journalists, scientists, and citizens trace the fallout of a new American fossil fuel boom. From the oil fields of West Texas to tanker traffic busting the Panama Canal at its seams to an energy revolution in Asia, "Blowout" takes a deep dive into American energy's global impacts on profits, public health, and climate change.

Scientists head into some of the last remaining prairies in North America to undertake the painstaking work of hand-pollinating an obscure plant on the brink of extinction. While there, they encounter an animal who has become a mascot of prairie conservation.

Missouri imports more consumer fireworks than any other state in the US, and 99% of those fireworks are produced in China. As unprecedented tariffs on Chinese imports take effect, a suburban Missouri fireworks salesman braces for impact and considers the legacy he's leaving for his daughter.