Another labor and delivery nurse at UI Health, Clara, gets ready to deliver twins at her own hospital and receives an epidural. (19 minutes)

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld speaks with a father and daughter who have been playing the same game for 25 years.

When USAID suddenly stopped all foreign assistance without warning or a transition plan, it sent people all over the world scrambling. Especially those relying on daily medicine provided by USAID.

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. (39 minutes)Harold Washington died on November 25, 1987.  This show was first broadcast ten years later, in 1997.

When Heather Gay started taking steps away from Mormonism, she thought it was her secret. That her daughters had no idea.

A woman watches her partner get taken in handcuffs with no explanation. Days later, she spots him in the most unexpected place.

A young couple, excited to start a new chapter in their lives, is suddenly put on a very different trajectory. (30 minutes)

Reporter Evan Ratliff creates an AI version of himself and then sets it loose on the world.

The county prosecutor explains why he let Mika’s killer out of jail.

Kirk Johnson tells Ira about a strange choice he made during his family’s evacuation from the Sunset Fire in Los Angeles. (5 minutes)

With the year coming to an end, someone is going to have to say, “You were right, and I was wrong.” Will it change anything? (16 minutes)This story is a collaboration with NPR's Embedded podcast, which released a three-part series about Zach and his father.

Shalom Auslander tells the story of the time he went on vacation, pegged the guest in the room next door as an imposter, and devoted his holiday to trying to prove it.

In every house, behind every closed door, a private drama is unfolding. In the Rivera house, the drama comes in the form of a question: should they stay or should they go? This question winds its way around the house until someone finally answers it.

The president of the Black Student Union at the University of Utah fights to keep the B in BSU. (30 minutes)

The judges walk us through how different their jobs have become in just the past few months, because of sweeping policy changes by Trump’s Department of Justice.

Settler violence has worsened significantly in the West Bank since October 7, 2023.

Two Americans moved to Eswatini when that country was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic. With support from USAID, they built a clinic and started serving HIV+ patients.

Producer Diane Wu talks to Juna, a young woman who is getting advice from someone uniquely equipped to guide her to the love life she wants.

In the wake of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, producer Miki Meek talks to a woman on a very particular mission. (6 minutes)We first heard about Vanessa's story in the Associated Press. 

Host Ira Glass talks to B.A. Parker about her birthday tradition.

The Hammash family’s group chat unfolds over texts, starting before the war.

A class of second graders is handed a sealed box with a mystery object inside.

As President Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office, producer Valerie Kipnis talks to Ukrainian soldiers on the front line who wonder about what his administration could mean for them. (14 minutes)

Producer Laura Starecheski takes us inside one dramatic court hearing on the Trump administration’s executive order and new policy banning transgender people from serving in the military.