A group of inmates at a high-security prison stage a production of the last act of Hamlet.

Two years after the Mideast peace process collapsed, we wanted to understand what that has done to people living in Israel and the West Bank.

Ira Glass goes to a fake wedding at a home for Alzheimer's patients.

Stories about people who turned to the experts and got horrible advice.

We take the laws of physics and apply them to the realm of human relationships.

Stories of people who try to convince you that the devil is there, whispering in your ear.

Stories about what happens when a new guy comes on the scene and changes everything.

When you turn someone over to the authorities, it can set into motion lots of huge, unintended consequences.

DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals, it's proving wrongdoing by police and prosecutors.

The story of an eighth grader who set himself on fire, and what led to that.

Stories of high drama from our nation's workplaces.

Stories about people who were told that they're different.

Life aboard an aircraft carrier stationed in the Arabian Sea supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan.

There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.

How the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.

Personal recordings one person made for just one other person.

Stories of faith: losing it, talking about it, constructing it, and working within it.

In a time of war, when we're all feeling a heightened sense of "us" and "them," we wanted to take up the problem of "them."

Of all the wars to win, perhaps the propaganda war is the hardest.

A young boy, an abandoned house, and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.

People climbing to be number one. How do they do it?

In 1946, a man started to investigate the Holocaust before it was known as the Holocaust, gathering the first recorded testimonials of concentration camp survivors.

The events of September 11th, and how its meaning changes depending on who you talk to.

We try to sort out what the war in Afghanistan will be like.

Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.

A collection of stories in which people try to make sense of loss.

The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity.

Scott Carrier travels cross-country without air conditioning, during weather in which it's too hot to stay in the car and too hot to get out.

There's a deep impulse in American culture that says that you can make yourself into anyone.

A modern-day fable about what happens when the free market, the media, the World War II buffs, the Neo-Nazis, and the Jews all collide over a huge Nazi tourist trap.

Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.

Stories of people worshiping false idols, and whether that's always a bad thing.

An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.

Women planning to get pregnant with the help of a sperm bank tell us about the questions they wrestle with of how much they want to know about the fathers of their kids.

Tales of personal humiliation, romance gone wrong, and people who profoundly misjudge how they're perceived by others.

Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.

Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.

The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.

Which is better: flight or invisibility?

Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life.

Democrats explain why they're having trouble getting over the 2001 election, and Republicans explain why this is so infuriating.

A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.

A live show taped for our fifth anniversary.

A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception.

One day in a Chicago diner.

Stories for the eve of the 2000 presidential election, in which we try to look beneath the candidates' soundbites.