Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.
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Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.
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The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.
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Stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreak, the lives they change.
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When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.
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In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?
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People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives — with their sister, their political party, and the nominee for president.
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Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right.
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In Rafah, Yousef is out of options and faces his toughest move yet.
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Donald Trump has talked about taking retribution on his enemies since the early days of his 2024 presidential campaign. After his conviction last week in New York, his talk intensified. We try to understand what his retribution might look like by speaking with people who have the most to lose in a second Trump administration: people who believe Trump will be coming for them.
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