We asked our contributors to predict real events that will happen to them and the people they know in 2010.

The show goes to Penn State to report on tailgating, frat parties, and other alcohol-induced mayhem.

Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping.

The story of man who tries to investigate a neighborhood crime and ends up in jail himself.

Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated.

A deeper look inside the health insurance industry and the dark side of prescription drug coupons.

An hour explaining the American health care system—specifically, why it is that costs keep rising.

We mark the anniversary of the economic collapse.

Tales of estranged sisters, BFFs breaking up, and how reality stars walk the fine line between making friends and getting famous.

Nine radio reporters. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway.

The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping an Indian man suspected of being an illegal arms dealer.

Stories where the fine print changes everything, whether you read it or not.

It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause.

When things go wrong, it's easy to pin it all on one person and watch them go down in flames.

Little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions began.

Where were the regulators and watchdogs who were supposed to be overseeing the banks and the finance industry?

A well-known activist is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI.

Stories of people who find themselves in situations far from the beaten path, without guidelines or useful precedents.

A live episode of the radio program, including stories told on stage by Dan Savage and Mike Birbiglia.

Stories of people forced to let go of their firmly held beliefs.

We highlight the unusual circumstances our economic drought has left us in.

Stories of people with wildly popular or unpopular views for one moment in time, and how those views stand up years later.

We tackle a very tough subject: Trying to explain exactly what a bank is and does.

Of the billions of people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match?

Stories about what happens when someone new takes over—someone with a vision of how things ought to be.

On the eve of Obama's inauguration, we sent reporters out to talk to people about how they're feeling.

We document life in a mall in Tennessee during the run-up to Christmas.

Stories of people who ruin things for everyone else, or who are accused of that.

A man in Pakistan buys an amulet with the power to protect anyone from harm. He tests it out on a chicken.

Stories of privilege and the lengths some will go to to maintain it.

We go to Pennsylvania to figure out why both McCain and Obama think they can win there.

Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems.

A look at what regulators could've done to prevent the financial crisis from happening in the first place.

Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.

Stories about people who take the law into their own hands.

Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter.

Mike Birbiglia talks about the sleepwalking that nearly killed him.

Two babies switched at birth. One of the moms knew but kept it a secret for 43 years. Then she told everybody. 

Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths.

Stories of social engineering on a small scale.

Stories of concealed truths bubbling to the surface, including a new story by Etgar Keret.

Things go badly for the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11.

The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.

Freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds.

Stories of the Bush Administration's quest to redefine the limits of presidential power.

In 1912, a four-year-old boy went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. But two grief-stricken mothers both claimed the same boy as their own.

People who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.

Teachers tell us about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building called "the rubber room."