Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.

Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.

The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.

Can’t live with them—or can you?

Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who went public with their stories?

Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?

An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?

Getting from A to B via Z.

The government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in — and getting results.

Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.

People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.

A man is thrust into a new world he didn’t ask to visit.

Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.

Stories of resistance from Hungary and Russia.

People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems.

The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?

Stories about Vladimir Putin.

Stories from places that are slowly coming apart.

A mysterious letter shocked Britain. But who wrote it?

Our story continues about the Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery.

An unsettling discovery in the home of a local police officer rocks an entire city.

People tangled up in our current racial backlash in both extreme and very personal ways.

People earnestly doing what they're told, and absolutely not getting what they were promised.

The story of an FBI undercover operation from 2006 that went terribly, and became the heart of a case heard at the Supreme Court.

Birds—the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreck, the lives they change.

Getting the point across — or trying to, anyway.

A man who was kept for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay gets out and issues an invitation to the people who kept him there.

We bring the movies to you.

Getting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance.

An hour devoted to embarrassing stories.

Who thought that would be good for a kid?

What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.

People trying to escape all kinds of seemingly impossible situations.

We made you a mixtape. Don't make a big deal out of it or anything.

The pandemic forced jobs to change, but then the workers changed, too.

Bad neighbors. What can you do about them?

What’s recovery mean, anyway?

Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful.

Solving problems using very extreme measures.

The bonds between sisters and how they get broken and fixed—or not.

People figuring out how to grieve, and doing a pretty good job of it.

An ode to life's daily practices, and what you learn from doing a thing every single day.

What happens when your own community suddenly turns on you?

Stories about the power of blood.

How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos.

Three friends come together to protest the murder of George Floyd. Over time, they end up in very different places.

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

Things lost in the past year that we haven’t talked about much.

There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.