Jessie, who took the call, explains how she discovered the hotline. She keeps in touch with Kimber.

Even people who vehemently disagreed with Heider Garcia wanted him to stay in his job. But then something happened that made staying impossible.

Kristina Karamo and her camp defend themselves against Warren’s attacks that they’re bad at fundraising and bad at leading the party. (13 minutes)

Guest Host Chana Joffe-Walt asks her kids when they first encountered adult fallibility.

Jasmine and Gabbie are best friends. BFFs! But there’s something major that they’ve never been able to talk about.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka moved suddenly from Japan to the U.S. when she was eight years old, and has long joked that it was because her grandmother kidnapped her from her dad. But she'd never talked to anyone in her family about what had actually happened. (31 minutes) Tickets for Atsuko’s comedy tour at atsukocomedy.com.

Calvin is an 11 year old who is learning what love is all about, the hard way. (7 minutes)

American criminals who flee to Mexico to evade law enforcement discover it's not so simple as crossing the border.

The journalist E. Jean Carroll is in court this week with her rape case against Donald Trump.

In the middle of the night, host Ira Glass meets a woman on a mission at Port Authority bus station. (13 minutes)

At the start of the year, Warren Carpenter was a Kristina Karamo supporter; helped her get elected.

Ira talks to producer Sean Cole about a nightmarish runaround he’s been caught in. It all started when Sean thought: I'd like a new bed.

Contributor Samuel James thought he knew what happened to his mother. But he was wrong.

Comedian Gary Gulman on a choice his dad made for him when he was seven years old.

Some powerful and well known men lost their jobs after #MeToo. But what about the women at the center of all this who’ve been way less visible after they told what happened to them? We hear about big and small ways the aftermath of coming forward continues to pop up in their daily lives.

Writer Marie Phillips believes that magic is not just reserved for the beginning of a relationship.

Host Ira Glass meets some of the city’s newest arrivals in every New Yorker’s least favorite place. (9 minutes)

One of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.

Karen sends Nadia a photo which drives them to a final showdown. (12 minutes)

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.

LA writer/performer Sandra Tsing Loh discovers that a local rock band has recorded a song about her own father, wildly misinterpreting who he is. They think he’s a free spirit; she believes he’s a worried, miserly grump.

Writer Tamsyn Muir spent her childhood craving a world that she could not find on earth. So as an adult, she just created it.

The story of Wes and Jeff venturing into the bear den continues. (11 minutes)