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Stories of people held captive — by criminals, by paperwork, and in one man's case, his own body — and the ways they try to cope.
Three very different stories of people not admitting the truth.
Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful — whether in a survival manual, a song lyric, or a slur.
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People go on missions to save girls from danger. But they get so caught up that it overshadows the girl herself.
We hang out with the presidential candidates, in this weird early period of the election.
Stories of those unexpected moments when we see who we really are.
Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering — are they right?
What it's like to be momentarily big on the small screen.
Stories of people shaking off their fear and doing what they’ve been scared to do.
People figuring out how to move through a world in which something important has disappeared.
Stories of very small injustices and also one very big one.
People connecting the dots that maybe should not be connected.
Stories from the upside-down world where conspiracy theorists dwell.
The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee try out their new powers for the first time.
People tossing words out impulsively, and they ignite and burn for years.
Intimate and personal dispatches from two very different battlefields.
Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us.
Revisiting those moments of calm before the storm.
Stories of people who roam the stacks and find unexpected things that just happen to be exactly what they required.
Ira on what he loves most about this weirdly insightful bot that generates inspirational messages.
Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect.
Stories of people who believe there is always a way. And also those who don’t.
Stories of women in unsettling situations, who are told that there’s nothing unsettling at all.
Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does.
It’s been thrilling to come across YouTube videos of high schools staging the show.
People taking what they’ve learned from school shootings and try to use that knowledge to save others.
Zoe Chace followed Senator Jeff Flake as he decided to force the Senate to delay its vote on Judge Kavanaugh.
"To hear it out of the detectives' mouths, the complete disrespect...gut-wrenching.”
A bunch of teenagers go missing from a town in Long Island.
The quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants.
What happens when an astronaut who's not really into outer space goes to the moon.
Made using some of the rarest feathers in the world.
A flute player steals a million dollars worth of dead birds.
Every crime scene hides a story.
Dispatches from a government agency in its tumultuous teenage years.
A young preacher opens a new church.
Radical change comes to an Argentinian talk show.
In the final weeks of the primary election in New York 19th, Jeff Beals is devoting almost all of his time to canvassing.
Before Democrats slug it out with Republicans, they’re slugging out with each other.
People trying to learn something when no one is clear what the lesson is supposed to be.
A security guard at the airport notices something going wrong on the tarmac, and takes it upon herself to fix it.
Graeme told us in the interview that he’d often wondered if you could calculate how fast the brick would have been going as it whizzed past his head. Here's the problem. Do you know the solution?
The clues people find when trying to make sense of a death.
Ira Glass talks to the graduating journalists about the challenges they and all journalists face these days, with fewer people believing fact-based reporting.
Conservative students don't feel like their ideas are welcome on campus. So they're fighting back.
Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history.
The screenwriter Marcus Hinchey, who spent hundreds of hours talking to Bishop Pearson, chose favorite videos of him.
The film tells the real-life story of Carlton Pearson, who was a rising star in the Pentecostal church and Oral Roberts’s protégé.
People having to make a choice, when no good options exist.
Before he leaves the Senate for good, Republican Jeff Flake is trying to get a bill passed.
Footage of people rushing the fences in Melilla had appeared in Donald Trump’s first TV ad when he was running for president.