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January 01, 1990 - February 16, 2013 + This American Life
Dreamhouse
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How many of our parents move to some place -- some
dreamhouse -- with
some vision of a new life in the new place, and move the...
Three Kinds of Deception
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A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception -- and how one type of deception can easily turn...
Big Wide World
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Haider was a teenager living in Iraq when the war broke out. Plus, other stories of what happens
when you strike out into the world.
Notes on Camp
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People who love camp say
that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp.
Duty Calls
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Josh's
mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much, his brother
got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't
lived with them since he was nine,...
The Center for Lessons Learned
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Four years into the Iraq War, what have we
learned?
Road Trip
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With all the American movies and songs and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard for an American to take just a...
81 Words That Changed Our Take on Homosexuality
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The story of how the American Psychiatric
Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
The Ten Commandments
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Jack had seen his father mad, but never this mad. "I've worked all my life to make sure that when you walk down the street,...
Habeas Schmabeas
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We rerun an episode of our show that just won
this big award, the Peabody award. We
hear from guys who have been detained in Guantánamo, including...
The Bureau of Missing Parents
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In an acting class for aspiring child stars, they'd do this exercise: each child made up a character, developed that character for six weeks and...
Reputations Made and Lost
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Okay, so you're accused of a crime, your reputation is possibly shot, you can't talk to your friends about it because they're about to be...
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...
Allure of the Mean Friend
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Some people never get over it...the appeal of a mean friend. (Rebroadcast from Saturday, March 24.)
A Day at the Golden Apple
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We spend 24 hours--from 5am to 5am the next morning--at the Golden Apple, a diner in Chicago.
