12.26.08
This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee,
12.19.08
Stories of people who ruin things for everyone else...or who are accused of that. Like the San Diego parents who didn't vaccinate their...
11.28.08
A man in Pakistan wants to break his friend out of prison. He buys him an amulet that supposedly has the power to protect anyone from harm...
11.7.08
This week we bring you stories of privilege and the lengths some will go to to maintain it. In one story, a woman fights—on tape!—with her...
10.24.08
This American Life goes to Pennsylvania, a battleground within a battleground, to figure out why, and how, John McCain and Barack...
10.10.08
Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems—solutions that sometimes cause problems of their own. Alex...
10.3.08
Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet...
9.26.08
Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.
9.12.08
Stories about people who take the law into
their own hands, even when the line between enforcing the rules
and breaking them gets kind of...
8.22.08
Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter—and sets...
8.8.08
Mike Birbiglia got used to strange things happening to him when he slept—until something happened that almost killed him. Mike's story and...
7.25.08
On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went...
7.18.08
Stories of people haunted by guilt over their
role in others' deaths, even when everyone agrees they're
blameless.
6.27.08
Governments are always looking for ways to change behavior—stopping people from driving drunk, or encouraging them to recycle. This week,...
6.13.08
Does the truth always come out? Of course not! Though sometimes it comes out in the most uncomfortable ways imaginable. Stories of...
5.30.08
A lawyer in the Justice Department gets the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to be the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-...
5.9.08
A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the...
4.18.08
It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat...
3.28.08
Stories of the Bush Administration, its unique style of asserting presidential authority, and its quest to redefine the limits of...
3.14.08
In 1912 a four year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a...
3.7.08
Seventh-grader Kayla Hernandez likes to reminisce about when she was a child, back in fifth grade. She visits her school, where her...
2.29.08
The true story of little-known rooms in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their...
2.15.08
Veronica Chater's mother wants to go to a resort in Mexico with a friend. Her father, a former cop with an extravagant sense of security,...
1.18.08
Sabir, a young man in Afghanistan, thought he'd found true love but he couldn't afford a wedding. So two foreign aid workers, friends of...
