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The other day, longtime This American Life staffer Seth Lind told Ira Glass something that blew his mind. So he took Seth into the studio.
The things we break and the ones we can't fix.
People waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed.
A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza about what he and his family are experiencing.
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An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.
What it means to have words—and to lose them.
People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it.
A political party in a major swing state bets on a total outsider.
A series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.
New York City has scrambled to try and provide shelter and services to over 150,000 migrants. We take a look at how that’s going.
When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next?
Turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds—real and imagined—and their mysterious hold over us.
Things our dads taught us, whether they intended to or not.
What happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.
Why does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious?
People who have a good, long time to think about what they’re doing, look hard at what’s ahead of them, and decide to keep moving forward anyway.
Spots we’re avoiding in our private maps of the world.
Friends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding.
One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.
People who—whether they want to or not—find themselves face-to-face with the rest of their stories.
Nadia's family is split between Russia and Ukraine, and when Russia invaded Ukraine, it sparked family conflict, too.
People on the verge of a big change, not wanting to let go. And the people who give them the final push.
Ron DeSantis says he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. So what's it like in Florida?
Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.
Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.
Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.
The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.
Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who went public with their stories?
Looping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all.
People trying to leave some moment in their life behind, which can be hard.
It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.
Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.
We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were changing in their states.
People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.
The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.
People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave?
When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it.
Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.
People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.
Writer Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture the different sides of his mother.
"A whole galaxy of alternative holiday music that I didn’t know existed – songs that I’d want to listen to anyway, even if it wasn’t this time of year."
People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.
Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
How Ohio Republicans drew electoral maps that violated their own constitutional amendment.
We hear from kids who are dealing with some of the country’s most contentious debates. Debates that are supposedly about them.