This American Life (Unofficial)

Sayre Quevedo’s invented a way to do a podcast that feels completely new. He’s been recording nearly all his conversations for years, and the result is something that captures a person’s life in a raw and complicated way that’s rarely heard. His new show Reaching Out also documents his mutually judge-y relationship with his twin brother as they set out to find their long-lost birth father.

Nikole Hannah-Jones made an argument 10 years ago in The New York Times Magazine that became famous. She wrote about choosing a public school for her daughter, Najya, in one of the most racially and economically segregated school systems in the country: New York City. Nikole chose a regular public school, one that most wealthy and middle-class parents wouldn’t consider, and she challenged other pa...

People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times.

Moments when it seems obvious what to do for someone else, so of course you jump in and try to help — and what happens after that.

Labels are powerful. They can distill you down to a single word. They can get stuck on you without your permission. And sometimes, when they get taken away, they can upend your entire life. On this episode: labels and the havoc they wreak.

People dealing with new, glaring, massive changes happening right where they live.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered everyone over 30 in the military to have their testosterone tested. That inspired us to rerun this classic episode where everyone at This American Life tested their testosterone and compared results. It did not lead to workplace harmony.

People on journeys they did not intend — or agree to.

Some people in this country think Antifa is a dangerous domestic terror organization. Some think that’s a complete myth. This week, we go to the federal trial where, for the first time, the government sets out to prove that Antifa is real. Zoe Chace reports.

On this country's 250th birthday, we bring you stories about the most American people, places, objects, and social norms that make this country what it is.

We spend an hour in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, behind and desperate, with people trying any damn thing they can think of.

Regular people trapped inside Greek myths.

One family faces the Trump administration’s ban on trans people serving in the military, and responds with a surprising secret weapon.

Since the war began in Iran, we've heard very little from people inside the country — and there's a reason for that. The entire country has been under an internet blackout. We worked with reporters Roxana Saberi and Fatemeh Jamalpour to get voice memos out of the country. Even though it was dangerous and difficult, people wanted to be heard.

At a time when the U.S. government is trying to make American history tidier, we try to learn from the mess. Including the untold, messy story of Paul and Essie Robeson.

M. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at Serial Productions—who invented the true-crime podcast more than a decade ago—and from The New York Times.

In the early days of the radio show, Ira did a series of interviews with his parents that completely changed his relationship with them. This week, he returns to those interviews.

Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now.

People deciding to do things that most of us do NOT choose to do.

911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America.

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 fall of the brutal Assad regime.

People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.

How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone.

When history comes knocking, you have to figure out what to do.

What’s in the box? What’s in the $%&ing box?!?