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Office Politics
Episode 208
Stories of high drama from America's workplaces — surprising, emotional places full of the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
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10 hours ago
I Want What I Want
Episode 881
People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.
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Kid Logic
Episode 605
Kids using perfectly logical arguments and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
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2 weeks ago
Kindness of Strangers
Episode 75
An episode from our show's early days: Stories about what happens when strangers are kind — and when they're not.
Prologue: Brett Leveridge was stand…3 weeks ago
What Is Your Emergency?
Episode 880
911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.
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1 month ago
Try a Little Tenderness
Episode 851
In the new year, stories of people trying a radical approach to solving their problems.
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1 month ago
A Christian and a Muslim Walk Into a Bar
Episode 879
When a joke could get you killed, should you say it anyway? A group of Syrian comedians test the limits of their newfound freedom, a year after the f…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Americans Outside My Window
In this special mini-episode -- an extra episode this week! -- we hear from someone in Venezuela with a very specific take on last week's U.S. attack.
1 month, 2 weeks ago
New Lore Drop
Episode 878
People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
If You Want to Destroy My Sweater, Hold This Thread as I Walk Away
Episode 850
The tiny thing that unravels your world.
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