One Monday earlier this month, we sent five producers to record what happened at library reference desks around the country.

Romantic comedies usually don’t get much respect.  Producer Neil Drumming explains what’s so great about them. (5 minutes)

We begin with a woman whose sister has died. She has questions.

A private basketball coach teaches a young student some things his parents don't agree with. David Kestenbaum has the story.

Miki Meek tells the story of an unlikely alliance between an ICE agent and a group of undocumented immigrants. (34 minutes)

There’s a problem with having a Facebook account after you’re dead that you’ve never, ever, ever thought about. Producer Stephanie Foo tells this story, about Dave Maher.

Kristen has no trouble naming what’s going on with Don: sexual harassment. She’s the first Alternet employee angry enough to try to do something about it.

The President has cut the number of refugees officially allowed into the U.S. So a bunch of refugee resettlement offices are shutting down.

Veronica Chater explains the conflict in her house between her love for her pet macaw—a kind of parrot—and her love for her husband and three kids. The macaw wreaks a sort of low-level chaos in the house, because it wants Veronica all to itself.

Host Ira Glass takes a tour to walls all around the world. (9 minutes)

Etgar Keret tells the story of how his mother convinced an army general to send her son home for a day in the middle of a war.

Ira Glass talks with Robert Costa of The Washington Post about President Trump's promise that Mexico would build the wall.Then Brian Reed investigates a wall that may or may not exist. Brian is our senior producer and host of our podcast series S-Town.

Eileen was desperate to help her son, and the only way to do it involved a perverse legal loophole. But should she dare try it? Shannon Heffernan tells the story. She’s a reporter at WBEZ Chicago.

Beals is running against six other candidates, many of whom say they, too, are progressive. Beals disagrees.

Reporter Steve Kolowich goes to the University of Nebraska where one new recruit to Turning Point goes out on campus to sign people up for her club. And that one act immediately devolves into a political battle of epic proportions.

Reporter Jasmine Garsd grew up in Argentina watching talk shows, which were kind of extreme even for Latin American television. The women on screen were pumped with silicone and Botox, and sometimes showed up wearing almost nothing.

There’s a lawsuit going on between Harvard and some Asian American students who say the admissions process discriminates against them.

Producer Neil Drumming has steadfastly avoided one bar in his neighborhood because of the controversy that surrounds it—until recently, when he noticed that lots of people he didn’t expect to go there were becoming regulars.

One of Jared’s oldest friends is about to embark on a trip he may not be able to return home from.

Lydia Sigwarth spent a lot of time in her public library growing up – all day, almost every day, for six months straight. Producer Stephanie Foo returned to that library with her, after years away.

A guy goes to a funeral for someone he doesn’t know at all, and has to piece together everything about him.

Producer David Kestenbaum took issue with the entire premise of today’s show, and explains why.

Ira wonders aloud, when it comes to DACA, with broad support from most Americans, including the majority of Trump voters, leaders of both parties and the president himself: Why is a permanent solution so hard? Why are politics so hard? (2 minutes)