This American Life Archive

333: The Center for Lessons Learned 25.05.2007 ↓

Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned?

332: The Ten Commandments 04.05.2007 ↓

People struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.

331: Habeas Schmabeas (2007) 27.04.2007 ↓

Is Guantanamo Bay a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?

330: My Reputation 13.04.2007 ↓

Stories of people trying to recover from damage to their reputations.

329: Nice Work If You Can Get It 06.04.2007 ↓

Stories of sudden fame, quick riches, and the downside of the dream job.

328: What I Learned from Television 16.03.2007 ↓

Stories recorded during our 2007 live tour, by Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, and others.

327: By Proxy 09.03.2007 ↓

Stories of proxy fights, proxy arguments, and proxy situations of all kinds.

326: Quiz Show 16.02.2007 ↓

A man with social anxiety goes through a transformation on a TV game show.

325: Houses of Ill Repute 02.02.2007 ↓

An old man in Brooklyn invites some homeless prostitutes into his house on a cold winter night. They never leave.

324: My Brilliant Plan 26.01.2007 ↓

An American reporter in Iraq decides to rent a house in a residential Baghdad neighborhood. Plus other big ideas gone amok.

323: The Super 05.01.2007 ↓

The mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or that their buildings have on them.

322: Shouting Across the Divide 15.12.2006 ↓

Stories of Muslims and non-Muslims trying to communicate with each other and not always getting their point across.

321: Sink or Swim 01.12.2006 ↓

Stories of people who are in over their heads and trying to stay afloat.

320: What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition 03.11.2006 ↓

The remarkable story of what it took to determine the number of Iraqis who've died since the U.S. invasion.

319: And the Call Was Coming from the Basement 27.10.2006 ↓

Scary stories that are all true—zombie raccoons, haunted houses, and things that go "EEEEK!!!" in the night.

318: With Great Power 06.10.2006 ↓

Stories of everyday people who get saddled with great power.

317: Unconditional Love 15.09.2006 ↓

A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them, and other stories about the hard work of loving other people.

316: The Cat Came Back 18.08.2006 ↓

When something you thought was gone forever keeps returning, against all odds.

315: The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig 21.07.2006 ↓

Stories about animals who don't even seem like they should know each other, much less appear on the same radio show.

314: It's Never Over 23.06.2006 ↓

A grown man tries to get to the bottom of why his schoolmates threw him in a lake 20 years earlier.

313: Parental Guidance Suggested 19.05.2006 ↓

Stories about kids who actually want their parents looking out for them.

312: How We Talked Back Then 12.05.2006 ↓

We revisit two live shows we put on in the early days—one was about letters, and the other was about this then-new phenomenon called the internet.

311: A Better Mousetrap (2006) 14.04.2006 ↓

Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems.

310: Habeas Schmabeas 10.03.2006 ↓

Is Guantanamo Bay a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?

309: Cat and Mouse 24.02.2006 ↓

Stories about the kinds of chase games that just never end.