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A man in retirement tries to start over in a new life with a new venture: a cable channel, with lots of puppies.
People who try simple mind games on others and find themselves in way over their heads.
What happens when your own community suddenly turns on you?
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Stories about the power of blood.
How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos.
Three men come together to protest the murder of George Floyd. They are unified and impressive, but over time, these three friends end up in very different places.
Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.
Stories of people summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.
Things lost in the past year that we haven’t talked about much.
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
Stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like.
To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
Stories about food and people who set out on very particular missions with food.
Stories of people changing their minds.
People grappling with an endless presidential election.
Ahead of the election, we have stories about people trying to live in the unreality that defines this moment.
People who find themselves stuck in small spaces, trying to make sense of their new surroundings.
People who are worried — or not worried enough! — about what's hurtling unstoppably towards them.
The not-often-talked-about realm of licensing boards, and the disturbing decisions they sometimes make.
Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures.
At a time when going to the movies is mostly out of the question, we bring the movies to you.
Writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister retrace the Trail of Tears, the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land.
Teachers, students and parents have been bracing themselves for the start of this unprecedented school year. Now it's here.
It’s the last few weeks of summer, so we’re going to the beach! This week, stories from the surf and sand.
In a pitched moment of rule-questioning, a show about rules and the people who break them.
Producer Chana Joffe-Walt investigates the inordinate power of white parents at one ordinary public school.
In space, in the ocean, by ourselves, or with others—we’re all just figuring out how to be apart.
As China's new national security law tightens its control over Hong Kong, we return to our episode about last fall's anti-government protests and check in to see how people are responding.
How Covid-19 has changed the nurses and doctors at one hospital in Detroit, and their city.
We hear what different people said and did one weekend in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.
In this moment of sorrow, protest, and rage, we offer this as a break from the dreadful present: our show about Afrofuturism.
Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. She's great at it. But then, her niece goes missing.
Our favorite stories from the football fields, boxing rings, and basketball courts of days past.
What the Trump administration’s "Remain in Mexico" policy really means, on the ground, at the Mexican border.
During a time when a lot of us feel like we are living in a holding pattern, stories of people feeling stuck.
Ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to their loved ones.
Desperate to know what happened to his family, a man obsessively decodes the only information about them he can get.
Sometimes a sketch of a thing needs filling in for its true significance to be known.
Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong.
Stories of people trying to rise to the challenge presented by coronavirus, in some pretty extreme situations.
In this moment when everyone’s reaching out to the people they love, we put together a collection of family stories.
Things do not seem fine at all, but it’s hard to say why.
People squirming in a world where everything is rated and reviewed.
People looking everywhere to find a place—any place—where, for once, they don't have to be the odd man out.
We return to our story about Abdi Nor from 2015, with some news about his life today.
In these dark times, we attempt some radical counterprogramming: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.
Other universes that are just like our own, but with one small difference.
For the holidays, stories of families finally addressing the thorny thing they’ve never really talked about.
There's a lot that can be gained from unearthing the past. But it doesn't always go how you'd expect.
Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy. This episode won the first ever Pulitzer Prize given for audio journalism.