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January 01, 1990 - January 13, 2013 + This American Life
Social Contract
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Richard Ravitch has been drafted to help fix three governmental crises, including when New York City nearly went bankrupt in 1975. Why is it so...
Island Time
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Unprecedented amounts of money have been pledged to Haitian relief in the last few months. American households have given over $1 billion and in March,...
The Bridge
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One of China's most famous bridges is known for two things: its massive size, and its high suicide rate. This week, one reporter's trip to...
True Urban Legends
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Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet? Can your cell phone give you a brain tumor? And, perhaps most...
Inside Job
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For seven months a team of investigative journalists from the group ProPublica has been looking into a story for us, the inside story of one...
Enemy Camp 2010
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Living behind enemy lines among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.
NUMMI
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The story of a car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the US car industry, if only Detroit had been quicker to learn...
Stories Pitched by Our Parents
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Almost all the producers at This American Life have been pitched stories by our parents. In the past,
we've invariably rejected these story ideas. But this...
The House On Loon Lake
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Our entire show this week is one long story, sort of a real-life Hardy Boys mystery. More than most of our shows, this one lends...
The Best of 'This American Life'
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A compilation of the best loved stories from This American Life.
Contents Unknown
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Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who...
2010
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We've asked contributors to give us their predictions for the upcoming year. Stories of families getting bigger, and smaller. Stories of big fortunes, and big...
Number One Party School
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This year, The Princeton Review named Penn State the #1 party school in America. It's a rotating crown - last year it was University of...
Middle of the Night
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Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping -- some for work, some for play, and some for a free...
Bait and Switch
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Stories about people who take the bait, and those who place it. Including the story of man who tries to investigate a neighborhood crime and...
