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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
Social Engineering
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Governments are always looking for ways to change behavior—stopping
people from driving drunk, or encouraging them to recycle. This week,
we have stories of social engineering on...
The Truth Will Out
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Does the truth always come out? Of course not! Though sometimes it comes out in the most uncomfortable ways imaginable...
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,...
