Made to Be Broken
From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules — big and little — governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can’t abide by. In a pitched moment of …
Ira Glass is the host of one of the world’s most revered and most listened to podcasts, This American Life. TAL focuses on a different theme each week and tells a variety of (mostly true) stories around that theme. A winner of all the major broadcasting awards, frequent contributors include Mike Birbiglia, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, Sarah Vowell among others.
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From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules — big and little — governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can’t abide by. In a pitched moment of …
Years ago, producer Chana Joffe-Walt started reporting on one school in New York. She thought the story was about segregation and inequality in public schools. But the more she looked into it, the …
In space, in the ocean, by ourselves, or with others—we’re all just figuring out how to be apart.
As China’s new national security law tightens its control over Hong Kong, we return to our episode about last fall’s anti-government protests and check in to see how people are responding.
The number of Covid-19 patients is dropping in Michigan, and the state has started opening up. But it’s still been intensely difficult for the staff in the ICU at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. …
An exhaustingly familiar story. Maybe it’ll have a different ending this time, but maybe not. We hear what different people said and did one weekend in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.
In this moment of sorrow, protest, and rage in the wake of George Floyd’s death, we offer this as a break from the dreadful present: our show about Afrofuturism. It’s a way of looking at black …
Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. Cold cases, mostly. People no one else is looking for. It’s not her job, but a lot of Native Americans go missing and their cases remain unsolved, so …
While sports of all kinds have been put on pause, we bring you our favorite archive stories from the football fields, boxing rings, and basketball courts of days past.
Last week, our episode “The Out Crowd” won the very first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a radio show. This is the episode that won, with some updates on the stories. Hear what the Trump …