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January 01, 1990 - October 05, 2012 + This American Life

Cruelty of Children

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Human nature, the ...

Election

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The story of what some have called the most successful student government campaign in Mamaroneck High School history, and...

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...