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January 01, 1990 - January 07, 2013 + This American Life
Immigration
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Stories of a little-known provision in the U.S. immigration law, and how it has turned life upside down in two American communities.
Pursuit of Happiness
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Americans fulfilling the promise made in the Declaration of Independence -- doing things to make their lives better, to make this one weekend better, or...
Get Over It
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Stories of people who are unable to forget a love that ended. Host Ira Glass on trying to be just friends." Fiction writer George Saunders...
Memo to the People of the Future
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Stories of people trying to control how they'll be seen by generations to come. As President Clinton begins work on his Presidential library,...
Telephone Stories
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Stories of who we are on the phone, of of things we learn on the phone, of ...
Can You Fight City Hall-If You Are City Hall?
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Stories of a typically American kind of hero: the person who stands up alone for what's right, and damn the consequences. In one story, a...
Moving Without Moving
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Stories of what we take with us when we move --- and what we leave behind. A woman in suburban Minneapolis moves her...
Million Bubbles
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Stories about what's going on in all the other cars we see on the road, each one its own little bubble -- its own...
Fiasco!
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Stories of what happens when you leave ...
Character Assassination
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In preparation for what is likely to be a nasty Presidential contest...
Mother's Day
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Tillie Olsen reads from her short story "I Stand Here Ironing," from...
Mob Mentality
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The pleasure of being in a rampaging, angry mob... and the terror...
Detectives
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David Sedaris tells the story of his mother and sister, who were convinced from watching detective shows on television that they could crack any case...
The Secret World of Daytime
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What happens in the world when people are supposed to be at work and school?
Sinatra
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Stories, tributes, and attempts at understanding the Chairman of the Board. Gay Talese reads his classic Sinatra Has a Cold. Sarah Vowell makes a...
