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Unofficial RSS feed for the "This American Life" podcast. Episodes 1 through current. Updated late Sunday night Eastern / early Monday morning UTC. Visit https://www.thisamericanlife.org for more information about the podcast.
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Episodes
- 2026 / 3 / 20883: Call Your ParentsIn the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.
- 2026 / 3 / 6882: Give a Little WhistleTwo lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.
- 2026 / 2 / 20881: I Want What IÂ WantPeople deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
- 2026 / 1 / 30880: What Is Your Emergency?911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
- 2026 / 1 / 16879: A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a BarWhen a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway? A group of Syrian comedians test the limits of their newfound freedom, a year after the fall of the brutal Assad regime.
- 2026 / 1 / 9878: New Lore DropPeople discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
- 2025 / 12 / 19877: The Making OfHow one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.
- 2025 / 11 / 21875: I Hate MysteriesWhat’s in the box? What’s in the $%&ing box?!?
- 2025 / 11 / 14874: Under One RoofWhat’s great about living in a family is that everyone sees everything differently. Also, that’s what’s awful about living in a family. We go behind closed doors with two families.
- 2025 / 10 / 24871: The Thing About ThingsThree stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us.
- 2025 / 9 / 19868: The Hand That Rocks The GavelA group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
- 2025 / 9 / 5866: Watch Out for That TreeSmall human plans that run into much larger obstacles.
- 2025 / 6 / 20862: Some Things We Don't Do AnymoreOn his first day in office, President Trump decided to freeze all U.S. foreign aid. Soon after, his administration effectively dissolved USAID—the federal agency that delivers billions in food, medicine, and...
- 2025 / 4 / 11858: How to Tell a Dumb American StoryA couple devises a strategy to get their daughter's killer prosecuted and to get attention for other Native families.
- 2025 / 3 / 14856: You’ve Come to the Right PersonSometimes, life’s biggest mysteries require one very specific person to answer them.
- 2025 / 2 / 28855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie AboutUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
- 2025 / 2 / 21854: Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About YouZach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.
- 2025 / 2 / 21854: Ten Things I Don't Want To Hate About YouZach Mack and his dad try to mend a rift between them in a very unusual way.
- 2025 / 1 / 31853: Groundhog DayPeople stuck in a loop, trying to find their way out.
- 2025 / 1 / 10851: Try a Little TendernessIn the new year, stories of people trying a radical approach to solving their problems.
- 2024 / 12 / 20850: If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk AwayThe tiny thing that unravels your world.
- 2024 / 11 / 22848: The Official Unofficial RecordHow do you count almost 12 million votes if you’re not the government? This week, we bring you the extraordinary story of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who created the only verifiable public record of...
- 2024 / 11 / 15847: The Truly Incredible Story of Keiko the Killer WhaleKeiko was a hugely beloved adventure park attraction. He was also captured in the wild and taken away from his mother when he was just a calf. When Hollywood learned about him, a colossal effort began to...
- 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?