This American Life Archive

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Autogenerated feed of the This American Life archive.

Episodes

The newest 20 of 883 episodes

• 883: Call Your Parents13 Mar 2026In the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.
• 882: Give a Little Whistle2 Mar 2026Two lawyers who work for ICE lift the curtain on what is happening inside our immigration system.
• 881: I Want What I Want13 Feb 2026People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
• 880: What Is Your Emergency?22 Jan 2026911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
• 879: A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a Bar9 Jan 2026When a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway?
• 878: New Lore Drop2 Jan 2026People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
• 877: The Making Of12 Dec 2025How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.
• 876: Bigger Than Me28 Nov 2025When history comes knocking, you have to figure out what to do.
• 875: I Hate Mysteries18 Nov 2025What’s in the box? What’s in the $%&ing box?!?
• 873: Got You Pegged7 Nov 2025The pitfalls of making snap judgments about others.
• 874: Under One Roof31 Oct 2025Behind closed doors with two families.
• 872: Winners23 Oct 2025We watch someone trying to score a win in a game whose rules are being made up as she plays.
• 871: The Thing About Things17 Oct 2025Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us.
• 869: Harold3 Oct 2025The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor.
• 870: My Other Self3 Oct 2025What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild?
• 868: The Hand That Rocks The Gavel12 Sep 2025Judges describe the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
• 867: College Disorientation5 Sep 2025Things are different on college campuses this year. We see inside the drama, with students and staff.
• 866: Watch Out for That Tree22 Aug 2025Small human plans that run into much larger obstacles.
• 865: The Other Territory8 Aug 2025Israel has intensified restrictions on West Bank Palestinians while global attention focused on Gaza.
• 864: Chicago Hope11 Jul 2025The story of the most commonly performed surgery, and what goes terribly wrong with it.