“What do you think about Beyoncé?” and other questions raised by people on first dates.

Ten different states had abortion rights measures on their ballots this election.

A politically divided couple searches for a news source they both can trust. (26 minutes)The original version of this story first appeared on Question Everything, a co-production of KCRW and Placement Theory.

A recording of comedian Tig Notaro in the process of trying to catch up to the present and absolutely not being able to. (8 minutes)Tig’s new stand-up special, Hello Again, comes out in two weeks on Amazon.

Host Ira Glass introduces the new series that Serial is doing about Guantánamo Bay. This is the second of two episodes of theirs that we’re airing.

Boen visits Norman, Oklahoma, where he was born, to meet the man he thinks changed his parents’ lives—and his life, too. (31 minutes)

Yousef does not even want to think about leaving Gaza. (18 minutes)

Reporter M. Gessen talks to Russians living in America and elsewhere about the lists the Russian government has put them on in the last few years.

This story is about a creepy and dangerous creature that does all kinds of terrible things.

A Boston woman takes her dog for a walk and suddenly finds herself in a terrible situation she never anticipated.

Ira talks with Zoe Chace about watching Trump’s victory from an ecstatic room in Michigan. Then he checks in with a DC cop who was injured at the Capitol on January 6.

John Fecile talks to his brother, Pat, about a list their other brother made before he died.

Editor Bethel Habte examines video evidence of two parents trying to get to the bottom of a minor crime committed in their own home. (7 minutes)

Marie Phillips reads a short story involving an aloof friend, a goose, and some extreme gardening. (7 minutes)

Henry Dee has been locked up for most of his life, nearly 50 years. Now, he’s up for parole.

Boen’s friend, Andrew, and his parents take what he learned in Part One, throw it into a blender, and push puree.

We meet Colleen Kelly, a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and learn just how upside down and messed up the trial for the 9/11 accused has been over the past decade. (28 minutes)

Ira talks with two of Trump’s “political enemies” about their post-election plans. (8 minutes)

When senior editor David Kestenbaum was still a rookie reporter, he wrote an email to a legend.

Ira talks to Representative Seth Moulton about what it was like to be among the first members of Congress to call for President Joe Biden to step aside. (18 minutes)