We return to people who have been on the show in the last ten years, and whose lives were drastically altered by 9/11.

A sociologist collects journals filled with gossip about AIDS in Malawi.

We head to some of the happiest places on earth: amusement parks!

Like a lot of Mexican towns, Florencia has had its share of problems dealing with drug gangs. Until recently, when new narcos rolled into town.

Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year?

Two professors each make a calculation that no one had made before.

Stories about people who find themselves either unexpectedly being singled out or doing the singling out.

Surprising stories of fathers trying to be good dads.

Nurses at a small Texas hospital report a well-connected doctor for dangerous medical practices, and find themselves under arrest.

We heard about a test that could determine if someone was a psychopath. So, naturally, our staff decided to take it.

Can politicians truly create many jobs?

An hour of stories about...this week.

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

The story of an entire country deciding whether to give up on just one of its citizens.

Stories of people pretending that everything is okay and ignoring the awful stuff that's staring them straight in the face.

A drug court program in Georgia where people with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences elsewhere sometimes end up in the system five to ten years.

Stories of people who've grown so accustomed to wartime that the lives they've left behind no longer make sense.

Stories about the perils of giving and receiving gifts.

We think we may have found the original recipe for Coca-Cola, one of the most guarded trade secrets in the world.

We go backstage with comedy writers at The Onion.

The story of a wedding 17 years in the making.

When it comes to governing, can kids do any better than grown-ups?

Five reporters stumbled on what seems like a basic question: What is money?

The holidays are stressful so we booked a seasonal pick-me-up: an hour of comedy.

Stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up.

Stories of neighbors watching out for each other, for better and worse.

The rise and fall of a school maintenance man in Schenectady, New York who terrorized his staff and got away with it for decades.

Reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset that turned out to be an encyclopedia of the financial crisis.

Two best friends get tired of yelling at their TVs and decide to form a Tea Party chapter to effect political change.

We spend a month in Iraq talking to Iraqis and Americans about the war that tore the country apart.

Stories of crybabies in sports, in politics, on Wall Street, on the streets of California.

A New York police officer secretly records his supervisors ordering officers to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do.

Nine of us go to small towns in Georgia to ask around until we find stories.

Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident.

Stories of first encounters with unknown and distant beings—girls, foreigners, and perhaps even aliens.

Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, so what makes it so much harder for him to solve the state's current financial crisis?

Stories of people held captive — by criminals, by paperwork, and in one man's case, his own body — and the ways they try to cope.

Blanketing a country in aid and money has never really worked so well. Is there a chance things could be different in Haiti?

Stories of bridges from three different countries, including one in China that's famous for its massive size and its high suicide rate.

Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet?

The inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us.

Living behind enemy lines, among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.

A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry.

Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.

A chimp is raised twice—once as a human child, and again as a chimp.

We try to turn their random ideas into actual stories.

A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. That, and other stories of filling in the blank.

Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds.