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Episodes
- 2024 / 11 / 8846: This Is the Cake We BakedWith Donald Trump’s victory this week, many people looked at the election results and thought, yeah, this is the country I thought it was. For some people, that was a hopeful thing. For others, kind of the...
- 2024 / 10 / 18844: This Is the Case of Henry DeeThirteen parole board members decide whether or not one man should be released from prison.
- 2024 / 10 / 11843: A Little Bit of PowerSo much of the fight for the presidency is coming down to battles for small slices of voters who can help throw swing states to one candidate or another. Abbas Alawieh, a leader in the Uncommitted movement,...
- 2024 / 9 / 13840: How Are You Not Seeing This?People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.
- 2024 / 9 / 6839: Meet Me at the FairIowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.
- 2024 / 8 / 16838: Letters! Actual Letters!When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.
- 2024 / 8 / 9837: Swim Towards the SharkIn a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?
- 2024 / 7 / 19836: The Big RethinkPeople rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives — with their sister, their political party, and the nominee for president.
- 2024 / 6 / 28835: Children of DaveBoen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right.
- 2024 / 6 / 14834: Yousef and the Fourth MoveYousef is forced into a move he is not sure he can make.
- 2024 / 6 / 7833: Come RetributionDonald Trump has talked about taking retribution on his enemies since the early days of his 2024 presidential campaign. After his conviction last week in New York, his talk intensified. We try to understand...
- 2024 / 5 / 24831: Lists!!!How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.
- 2024 / 5 / 17830: The Forever TrialThe trial for the men accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks still hasn’t started yet. Family members of those who died that day are still hoping for some kind of accountability, more...
- 2024 / 5 / 10829: Two LedgersFor years, Majid believed that if he could testify in court about what happened to him when he was held in a CIA black site, a judge and jury would give him a break. Finally, he got a chance to see if he was...
- 2024 / 4 / 5828: Minor Crimes DivisionPeople taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world.
- 2024 / 3 / 22827: All the King's HorsesThe things we break and the ones we can't fix.
- 2024 / 3 / 15826: Unprepared for What Has Already HappenedPeople waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed.
- 2024 / 2 / 2823: The Question TrapAn investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.
- 2024 / 1 / 26822: The Words to Say ItWhat it means to have words—and to lose them.
- 2023 / 12 / 22820: It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe If You’d Believe In MeA major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out for them?
- 2023 / 12 / 20819: Yousef’s WeekA series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.
- 2023 / 12 / 20819: Special Bonus Podcast — Yousef’s WeekOne of our producers, Chana Joffe-Walt, had a series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week. They're so immediate – and particular to this moment in the war in Gaza – that we're...
- 2023 / 12 / 15818: Stand Clear of the Closing DoorsIn the last year and a half, New York City has scrambled to try and provide shelter and services to over 150,000 migrants. We take a look at how that’s going.
- 2023 / 12 / 1817: The Cavalry Is Not ComingWhen you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next?
- 2023 / 11 / 17815: How I Learned to ShaveThings our dads taught us, whether they intended to or not.
- 2023 / 11 / 10814: Parents Are PeopleWhat happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.
- 2023 / 11 / 3813: Is That What I Look Like?You've been seeing yourself, getting to know what you look like, your whole life. So why does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious, and set you straight?
- 2023 / 10 / 20812: The Bear at the End of the TunnelPeople who have a good, long time to think about what they’re doing, look hard at what’s ahead of them, and decide to keep moving forward anyway.
- 2023 / 9 / 29811: The One Place I Can’t GoSpots we’re avoiding in our private maps of the world.
- 2023 / 9 / 15810: Say It to My FaceFriends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding.
- 2023 / 8 / 18808: The Rest of the StoryLegendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey had a popular show called “The Rest of the Story.” Today on our show, we do just that. We hear from people who, whether they want to or not, find themselves...
- 2023 / 7 / 28806: I Can't Quit You, BabyPeople  on the verge of a big change, not wanting to let go. And the people who give them the final push.
- 2023 / 6 / 23803: Greetings, People Of EarthHumans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.
- 2023 / 6 / 9801: Must Be Rats on the BrainThe one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.
- 2023 / 5 / 12799: The Lives of OthersLooping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all.
- 2023 / 4 / 21797: What I Was Thinking As We Were SinkingIt's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.
- 2023 / 3 / 24794: So Close and Yet So FarPeople ​so close to each other, ​in ​extremely intimate situations​,​ who are also a million miles apart.
- 2023 / 3 / 10793: The Problem with GhostsThe ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.
- 2023 / 1 / 6788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead MomWriter Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture his late mother, Orna Keret—but it’s hard, he says, because she’s like Maria in West Side Story and she’s also like Thanos from the Avengers....
- 2022 / 12 / 2786: It's a Game Show!Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
- 2022 / 11 / 25785: Through the Looking GlassPeople trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
- 2022 / 11 / 4784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a MapNot long ago, Republicans in Ohio passed a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering in the state. And then a funny thing happened. The same Ohio Republicans drew electoral maps that violated their own...
- 2022 / 9 / 30780: Setting the Record StraightGetting to the facts can be difficult, but it’s always the right thing to do. Except when it isn’t.
- 2022 / 9 / 16779: Ends of the EarthAn exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.
- 2022 / 7 / 29776: I Work Better on DeadlineStories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?
- 2022 / 7 / 1774: The Pink House at the Center of the WorldThe Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade began with a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi abortion clinic. On the day Roe was overturned, we were there. Stories from the center of this moment of history,...
- 2022 / 6 / 17773: The Longest Distance Between Two PointsGetting from A to B via Z.
- 2022 / 5 / 27771: The Parents Step InGovernment isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in: parents whose kids have died in mass shootings, in the wake of each shooting. They take practical, effective action — and...
- 2022 / 4 / 22768: The Other Front LinesFour personal stories from the war in Ukraine.
- 2022 / 4 / 8767: Do Not Go GentleIn this moment when autocrats and almost-autocrats are getting bolder and more powerful, we bring you two stories of resistance, from Hungary and Russia.