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Under One Roof
Episode 874
What’s great about living in a family is that everyone sees everything differently. Also, that’s what’s awful about living in a family. We go behind closed doors with two families.
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Published on 5 hours ago
Got You Pegged
Episode 873
Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter, and sets out to prove it. This and other stories about the pitfalls of ma…
Published on 1 week ago
Winners
Episode 872
America loves winners—now more than ever. But how do you get to a win in 2025 America? We watch someone trying to score a win in a game whose rules are being made up as she plays.
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Published on 2 weeks ago
The Thing About Things
Episode 871
Three stories about the strange power inanimate objects can hold over us.
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Prologue: Nunzio gets caught in a kind of ser…Published on 3 weeks ago
This Is the Case of Henry Dee
Episode 844
Thirteen parole board members decide whether or not one man should be released from prison.
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Prologue: Henry Dee has bee…Published on 4 weeks ago
An Update from Ira
Ira Glass shares some news about This American Life
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Published on 1 month ago
My Other Self
Episode 870
What happens when people create alternate versions of themselves and release them into the wild?
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Prologue: Host Ira Gla…Published on 1 month ago
Harold
Episode 869
When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charismatic, unconventional candidate decades earlier. Th…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Mind Games
Episode 286
Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads.
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Prologue: Host…Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Hand That Rocks The Gavel
Episode 868
A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.
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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago