This American Life

Cryptic messages on a cell phone and a teeter totter at a construction site: these are clues people found, trying to make sense of a death.

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Jan. 21, 2020

Our staff is gonna be on TV!

Catch us in the season four premiere of High Maintanance, on HBO February 7th.

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People looking everywhere to find a place—any place—where, for once, they don't have to be the odd man out.

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Abdi the American

We return to our story about Abdi Nor from 2015, with some news about his life today.

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The Show of Delights

In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.

“When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list.” — Ira Glass

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