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January 01, 1990 - December 06, 2012 + This American Life
Best of This American Life
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A special pledge drive edition featuring a selection of favorite features from the past few months.
Special Pledge Drive Edition
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A special pledge drive edition featuring a selection of favorite features from the past few months.
You Can Choose Your Family
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On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in
small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went
home with the...
The Spokesman
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Stories of what can happen when you go from being a private person to a public face.
Life after Death
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Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths, even when everyone agrees they're
blameless...
By Proxy
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Robert had a bad reputation as a kid who didn't do his schoolwork and had little respect for adults. But his best friend, Lilly, thought...
A Little Bit of Knowledge
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Bob
Berenz had a good job as an electrician. But he wanted to do something bigger.
He came up with an idea for an invention....
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...
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...
