[1] The show debuted on January 2, 2017, and airs on more than 340 NPR member stations in 35 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Several stations air a one-hour curated version of the program, produced daily, intended for broadcast in an afternoon or evening time slot.

[11][12] From 2010 to 2016, he was morning news host of KQED in San Francisco, a position he left to develop a radio project series entitled Truth Be Told, of which four episodes were broadcast nationally.

[13] Todd Zwillich served as interim host from January through the end of March 2020, leaving the program to join Vice News.

[14] He was succeeded as interim host by Sasha-Ann Simons, who has been "reporting on issues of race, identity, and economic mobility for WAMU" since 2017.