Stories of people who've grown so accustomed to wartime that the lives they've left behind no longer make sense.

Stories about the perils of giving and receiving gifts.

We think we may have found the original recipe for Coca-Cola, one of the most guarded trade secrets in the world.

We go backstage with comedy writers at The Onion.

The story of a wedding 17 years in the making.

When it comes to governing, can kids do any better than grown-ups?

Five reporters stumbled on what seems like a basic question: What is money?

The holidays are stressful so we booked a seasonal pick-me-up: an hour of comedy.

Stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up.

Stories of neighbors watching out for each other, for better and worse.

The rise and fall of a school maintenance man in Schenectady, New York who terrorized his staff and got away with it for decades.

Reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset that turned out to be an encyclopedia of the financial crisis.

Two best friends get tired of yelling at their TVs and decide to form a Tea Party chapter to effect political change.

We spend a month in Iraq talking to Iraqis and Americans about the war that tore the country apart.

Stories of crybabies in sports, in politics, on Wall Street, on the streets of California.

A New York police officer secretly records his supervisors ordering officers to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do.

Nine of us go to small towns in Georgia to ask around until we find stories.

Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident.

Stories of first encounters with unknown and distant beings—girls, foreigners, and perhaps even aliens.

Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, so what makes it so much harder for him to solve the state's current financial crisis?

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.

Blanketing a country in aid and money has never really worked so well. Is there a chance things could be different in Haiti?

Stories of bridges from three different countries, including one in China that's famous for its massive size and its high suicide rate.

Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet?

The inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us.

Living behind enemy lines, among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.

A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry.

Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.

A chimp is raised twice—once as a human child, and again as a chimp.

We try to turn their random ideas into actual stories.

A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. That, and other stories of filling in the blank.

Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds.

We asked our contributors to predict real events that will happen to them and the people they know in 2010.

The show goes to Penn State to report on tailgating, frat parties, and other alcohol-induced mayhem.

Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping.

The story of man who tries to investigate a neighborhood crime and ends up in jail himself.

Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated.

A deeper look inside the health insurance industry and the dark side of prescription drug coupons.

An hour explaining the American health care system—specifically, why it is that costs keep rising.

We mark the anniversary of the economic collapse.

Tales of estranged sisters, BFFs breaking up, and how reality stars walk the fine line between making friends and getting famous.

Nine radio reporters. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway.

The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping an Indian man suspected of being an illegal arms dealer.

Stories where the fine print changes everything, whether you read it or not.

It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause.

When things go wrong, it's easy to pin it all on one person and watch them go down in flames.

Little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions began.

Where were the regulators and watchdogs who were supposed to be overseeing the banks and the finance industry?