12.20.02
Stories about why we should go to war in Iraq versus stories of why we shouldn't.
11.22.02
Stories of people stuck in their own personal reruns — moments or episodes that they revisit over and over again.
11.15.02
A show about something most people have gone through. Friends get together to start a business, start a church, do political action...
11.9.02
Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them...
10.15.02
In this week's show, we celebrate the oft-beleaguered and misrepresented middleman. "Cut out the middleman! Death to the middleman!" the...
10.11.02
In this show we take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the local alternative weekly...
9.27.02
Some people have a rather dark worldview that divides people into two groups: Suckers and non-suckers. We hear their stories.
9.20.02
Stories of people traveling under fake papers, false identities, not for power or personal gain, but for their own deeper personal reasons.
8.30.02
Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The...
8.16.02
Stories of innocent people fleeing from dangerous men in cars who shoot at them. Unlike in the movies, the pursuers aren't foreign agents...
8.9.02
We devote this entire episode to one story: Over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of...
8.2.02
It's been two years since the Mideast peace process collapsed, two years in which each side has done terrible things to the other side. We...
7.12.02
Stories of people who go to great lengths to give people what they want, and how they're rewarded sometimes, misguided other times.
6.14.02
Stories about people who turned to the experts and got horrible advice. One story is about people who went to therapists who made them...
5.31.02
We take the stately laws of physics—laws which mathmaticians and scientists have spent centuries discovering and verifying—and apply them...
5.24.02
Stories of people who are trying to convince you that the Devil is there, whispering in your ear...and stories of people who try to deny he...
5.10.02
Stories about what happens when a new guy comes on the scene, and changes the way everyone who was already there relates to each other.
5.3.02
Stories about what happens when you name names. When you turn someone over to the authorities, it can set into motion lots of huge,...
4.19.02
After a decade in which DNA evidence has freed over 100 people nationwide, it's become clear that DNA evidence isn't just proving...
3.29.02
Two stories that are worst case scenarios for any parent. In each story, when you take apart what happened and how it happened, it's hard...
3.15.02
Stories of high drama from our nation's workplaces. They turn out to be surprising, emotional places, with all the greed, jealousy, and...
3.8.02
Stories about people who were told that they're different. Some of them were comfortable with it. Some didn't understand it. And some...
3.1.02
Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that's supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan as part of...
2.1.02
There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we...
1.18.02
The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
1.11.02
All the stories in this week's show center on personal recordings that one person made for just one other person.
