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January 01, 1990 - January 13, 2013 + This American Life
The Prosecutor
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A lawyer in the Justice Department gets the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to be the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist...
Big Wide World
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When he was a teenager, Haider worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Information. Then the war broke out, his job disappeared, and Haider suddenly had...
The Giant Pool of Money
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A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of...
Escape
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People escaping home without going very far away. In Philadelphia, teen-aged boys find ways to impress girls and break out of the confines of their...
What I Learned from Television
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A show assembled from the 2007 live tour. Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage,
and other favorite contributors went on the road with Ira and performed brand-new...
With Great Power
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A family wishes for years that they could do something to stop their
neighbor's shocking behavior. Suddenly they get the power to decisively
change things forever...and they...
Mistakes Were Made
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It's the late '60s and in the new technology of cryonics, one man sees a business opportunity. Freezing people when they die so that they...
Leaving the Fold
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A popular, progressive politician becomes...a talk show host. One you've probably heard of. A group of nuns leave the Catholic Church...only to find themselves essentially,...
The Audacity of Government
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We've noticed a trend in a number of actions taken lately by the United States government. Tiny things, things you probably haven't heard of, but...
Nice Work If You Can Get It
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A man makes his living convincing lottery winners to sign their jackpots over to him—and discovers why the vast majority of them wish they'd never...
Human Resources
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The true story of a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their...
Testosterone
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Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it; and of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros...
Valentine's Special 2008
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Veronica Chater's mother wants to go to a resort in Mexico with a friend. Her father, a former cop with an extravagant sense of security,...
Quiz Show
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The secret life of quiz shows, the life behind the questions and answers.
Matchmakers
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Sabir, a young man in Afghanistan, thought he'd found true love but he couldn't afford a wedding. So two foreign aid workers, friends of his,...
