Editor David Kestenbaum speaks with Jeff Permar, who is trapped in a Groundhog Day situation — with an actual groundhog! (9 minutes)See more videos of the groundhog Chunk on Jeff’s YouTube channel.

A comedian finds himself trapped in an uncomfortable mystery in the backseat of a cab. (4 minutes)

Talia Augustidis asks a single question over and over. (5 minutes)A version of this story originally aired on Short Cuts, a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Comedian Mike Birbiglia talks about the questions his daughter asks him and how trying to answer them showed him surprising reflections of himself.  (15 minutes) This is an excerpt from Mike Birbiglia’s special, “The Good Life.”

7-year-old Miles has lots of questions. More specifically, he has questions about the famous car chase from “The Blues Brothers” movie.

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.

Heather, the head of obstetric anesthesia at UI Health, gets up onstage and asks a ballroom full of hundreds of anesthesiologists to wrestle with the question of why patients are feeling pain during C-sections, and what they can do to solve it. (8 minutes)Follow The Retrievals: Season 2 wherever you get your podcasts to listen to the full season.

David Rakoff picks a fight with a hit Broadway show.

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld looks into why comedian Daniel Sloss’s comedy special has been responsible for so many couples breaking up. (17 minutes)

American doctors returning from Gaza compare notes and start to see a pattern. (28 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.

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.

What happens when the full force of the federal government arrives on your block? (14 minutes)

Zoe Chace gives an eyewitness account of what has been happening at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration courthouse in New York City.

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

We hear from Kwaneta Harris, a former nurse incarcerated in Texas, who is constantly asked for medical advice by her neighbors. (17 minutes)

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

Aviva DeKornfeld has the story of Leisha Hailey, who was certain she had the next million-dollar idea. (11 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.

Two people see one of President Trump’s first executive orders and get excited, and then get to work. (46 minutes)

A definition of antisemitism, canceled classes, and angry professors at Columbia University. (16 minutes)

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

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to a man who finds himself the target of vengeful crows.