Fake science can be fun. Fake science can make people happy.

After 25 years at the same company, a man starts a new life with a new venture: a cable channel that shows nothing but puppies.

The classifieds are populated by people in flux. People selling stuff from old lives in transition new ones.

If you're in thrall to a pair of pants, is that such a bad thing? Ira talks to Kate—who invested her hopes and dreams in a pair of favorite trousers—and her husband Joel, who thought she was nuts.

Kelly McEvers with the story of Zora, a self-made superhero. From the time she was five, Zora had recurring dreams in which she was a 6'5" warrior queen who could fly and shoot lightning from her hands.

Sarah Vowell and her family.

Gang Girl, on a body they thought was fake that turned out to be real.

Host Ira Glass brings together a panel of Republicans to discuss their lack of excitement about then-presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Bob Dole.

Ira and producer Neil Drumming visit a comic book store in Philadelphia to try and help Ira understand Afrofuturism.

Host Ira talks with a teacher in South Carolina who is just trying to figure out what the first day of school will look like.

We send one of the youngest people on our staff, 26-year-old Noor Gill, to report on a 25-year-old whose job took over her life earlier this year.

Firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler gets a glimpse of what lurks beneath the surface of a sunny California afternoon.

Elna Baker picks up with Jane Marie’s story. Jane Marie is the host of the podcast The Dream.

Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing. Host Ira Glass tries to figure out who’s right.

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it. But it’s a ghost that appears to just a small handful of people. Jean Hannah Edelstein tells the story to Ira.

Producer Alix Spiegel tells the story of a Lithuanian man who devises a plan to solve a problem related to the war in Ukraine.

A group of 6th grade boys are bothered by their teacher’s behavior. They complain, but no one listens.

Ira Glass introduces Nancy Updike, one of This American Life's founding producers.

It’s been nine months since the first group of people who wanted abortions couldn’t get them in their states. How have their lives changed, or not.

There’s a seismic, historic change going on in the Republican party this year. Producer Zoe Chace tells Ira about a place you can eavesdrop on a group of Republican friends as they fret and argue about that change week after week: a podcast called Ricochet.

Starting on radio station WCFL in Chicago, "Chickenman" was a much-loved radio feature in the 1960s. Ira presents the first new "Chickenman" episode since 1969.

A collection of small stories, all on the the theme introduced in the prologue—the first few months after the divorce, and suddenly, your parents are less composed, more flawed, and more human, than perhaps you've ever seen them.

Producer Zoe Chace attends the DeploraBall, a party for trolls and others who say they memed Trump into the presidency.