One of the boys from the book There Are No Children Here goes back to his old neighborhood across from the Convention site.

Host Ira Glass follows a delegation to find out what people actually do at a convention.

A woman obsessed with the number 2.

Ira wonders what the Dole campaign is thinking.

Ira talks about one of the purest expressions of ordinary folks' desire to be detectives: a child's detective notebook — full of information, secret codes, cases, and an application to become an FBI agent.

A first-grader explains to host Ira Glass how bullies become bullies. His explanation: They read a book on how to be a bully.

Chicagoans' dreams of the Bulls, including interviews with Chicagoans.

Kara instructs some of her male friends on the proper ways to treat a girl.

As high-school freshmen, Kim, Tiffany, and Laura were enamored of their fellow students who netted the leads in all the school plays. They're seniors now, and they're the ones landing all the lead roles.

Ira's mom is invited to speak to a group of Jewish mothers who only discuss one topic: their relationships with their adult children.

Ira speaks with Professor Glenn Loury. Loury failed to stand up for a light-skinned friend at a black unity rally in the sixties.

Erika Yeomans sees a young man's photo in an art magazine and decides to track him down. Problem is: he's Dutch, he's a performance artist, and he's dead.