This American Life

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776: I Work Better on Deadline

Stories of people racing against time to solve a huge intractable problem. Will they make it? 

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109: Notes on Camp

People who love summer camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing...

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400: Stories Pitched by Our Parents

We try something harder than anything we've ever tried before, by taking the random ideas that...

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775: The Possum Experiment

An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?

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666: The Theme That Shall Not Be Named

Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us. Prologue: Host Ira Glass plays...

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774: The Pink House at the Center of the World

The Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade began with a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi...

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583: It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older

Kids do not like being told it’ll make sense when they’re older. They’re pretty sure the...

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672: No Fair!

Stories of very small injustices and also one very big one.

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772: The Kids' Table

Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.

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771: The Parents Step In

Government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in: parents whose...

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638: Rom-Com

The one thing you know for sure when you're watching a romantic comedy is that it's going to turn...

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605: Kid Logic

Kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

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770: My Lying Eyes

People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.

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769: The Reluctant Explorer

A man finds himself thrust into a new world he didn’t necessarily ask to visit. He takes a look...

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768: The Other Front Lines

Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.

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360: Switched at Birth

On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The...

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767: Do Not Go Gentle

In this moment when autocrats and almost-autocrats are getting bolder and more powerful, we bring...

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766: Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!

People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems, putting themselves directly in the...

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523: Death and Taxes

It is a peculiar feeling to know with certainty that something big is about to happen to you....

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