Maybe you had a once beloved, increasingly autocratic and corrupt leader in power since 2009,

Sheikh Hasina, a Nepo baby, but her family was killed in a coup, so a Nepo baby with lots of baggage.

I digress. The people, especially the young people, wanted her out this summer, but she wanted to stay.

Hisina cracked down hard, deploying security forces, shutting off the internet,

and enforcing a nationwide curfew with a shoot on site order.

More than 300 people have been killed in clashes since mid July

when the protests turned deadly.

The people ultimately prevailed as they often do.

In an address to the nation, the army chief confirmed the Cina had resigned and fled the country.

And now, of all people, there's an internationally renowned Nobel Laureate in charge, and we're going to ask

how he can salvage the situation there on Today Explained. Support for the show comes from into the mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Fox Creative.

Along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans,

there is a stretch of land nicknamed Cancer Alley

because the cancer rate is more than seven times

higher than the national average,

thanks to a high concentration of petrochemical plants.

Here how one community is fighting against some of the top polluters in the country

in their own backyard.

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