Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.

Stories of people worshiping false idols, and whether that's always a bad thing.

An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.

Women planning to get pregnant with the help of a sperm bank tell us about the questions they wrestle with of how much they want to know about the fathers of their kids.

Tales of personal humiliation, romance gone wrong, and people who profoundly misjudge how they're perceived by others.

Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.

Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.

The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.

Which is better: flight or invisibility?

Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life.

Democrats explain why they're having trouble getting over the 2001 election, and Republicans explain why this is so infuriating.

A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.

A live show taped for our fifth anniversary.

A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception.

One day in a Chicago diner.

Stories for the eve of the 2000 presidential election, in which we try to look beneath the candidates' soundbites.

We look at a 1996 immigration law that is too obscure for most of us to have heard of, but which affects tens of thousands of lives in huge ways.

What does it mean to grow up in a country with an inalienable right to pursue happiness?

We go inside the back rooms of one multinational corporation and hear the intricate workings of how they put the fix in.

Stories of people who are trying to control how they'll be seen by generations to come.

Does anyone's family ever change?

David Sedaris takes Ira on a tour of his favorite spots in Paris.

Crime scenes and the stories they tell.

Stories of people who stand up alone for what's right, damn the consequences.

Stories of people who did not want to move but circumstance forced their hands.

A look at what's going on inside the individual glass and steel worlds of our cars.

David Foster Wallace reports on a turning point in the 2000 presidential primary.

Stories of moms: How they treat us, how we treat them.

The pleasure and the terror of being in a rampaging, angry mob.

All those people you see in the middle of the workday, in coffee shops and bookstores—why aren't they at work?

Stories of people revisiting what happened, and who they were back when.

Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does.

Exactly how much are the animals that live in our home caught up in everyday family dynamics?

The story of the book The Lonely Doll and its author, and how the author's life came to resemble something from her book.

What if you held onto a high-school crush? Under what conditions would it never go away? Tobias Wolff reads a short story called "Kiss."

Stories from the New Hampshire primary. We hear from voters who've found candidates they love. And we hear what those voters are seeing that the rest of us aren't.

Stories of kids trying to act like adults—some by choice—some because they're forced to.

In the hospital, we're in a place that has its own rules and its own language and its own customs.

The many, many different versions of Santa Claus.

Oh faithless and perverse generation? How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?—Matthew 17.

David Rakoff visits Iceland, where the government is careful not to disturb certain boulders because some people believe that elves live there.

Our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and their mysterious hold over our imaginations.

People struggle to invent words adequate to cope with death.

Have mandatory minimum sentences gone too far?

We hear the story of one African-American single mother who recorded her family's life over the course of seven months.

Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible.

What happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces.