761: The Trojan Horse Affair
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773: The Longest Distance Between Two Points
Getting from A to B via Z.
672: No Fair!
Stories of very small injustices and also one very big one.
772: The Kids' Table
Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.
771: The Parents Step In
Government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in: parents whose kids have died in mass shootings, in the...
638: Rom-Com
The one thing you know for sure when you're watching a romantic comedy is that it's going to turn out okay in the end. When you're living...
605: Kid Logic
Kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
770: My Lying Eyes
People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.
769: The Reluctant Explorer
A man finds himself thrust into a new world he didn’t necessarily ask to visit. He takes a look around.
768: The Other Front Lines
Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.
360: Switched at Birth
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...
767: Do Not Go Gentle
In this moment when autocrats and almost-autocrats are getting bolder and more powerful, we bring you two stories of resistance, from...
766: Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems, putting themselves directly in the gap between the problem and the solution.
523: Death and Taxes
It is a peculiar feeling to know with certainty that something big is about to happen to you. This week, we watch people go right up to the...
765: Off Course
Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.
764: School's Out Forever
The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?
175: Babysitting
What goes on while mom and dad are away, that mom and dad never find out about. Including the story of two teenagers who decide to invent...
763: The Other Mr. President
Stories about Vladimir Putin. Did he come to power in 1999 by killing hundreds of innocent Russians? How’s he really seen in his home...
466: Blackjack
The casino game everyone thinks they can beat.
762: Apocalypse Creep
A woman wakes up and discovers her backyard has disappeared, and other stories from places slowly coming apart.
A while back, one of our producers Brian Reed was in England giving a speech about the podcast he'd hosted, S-Town. A journalism student...
760: A City Walks Into an Investigation
Last week's story continues, about a Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery. This week:...
759: A Couple Walks Into a House
Rob and Reyna Mathis make an unsettling discovery in the home of a local police officer. Soon, their whole city is asking questions about...
492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
A doctor named Benjamin Gilmer gets a job at a rural clinic in North Carolina. He’s replaced another doctor named Gilmer – Dr. Vince...
758: Talking While Black
Think back to two summers ago, the summer of 2020, when a series of violent, highly-publicized killings of Black Americans sparked...
757: The Ghost in the Machine
People use machines to find people they lost.
773: The Longest Distance Between Two Points
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672: No Fair!
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772: The Kids' Table
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