This American Life (Unofficial)

Your mother and I have something we want to talk with you about.

An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.

What it means to have words—and to lose them.

People finding themselves in situations that are worse than they thought and deciding to really go with it.

A major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out for them?

A series of conversations with a man in Gaza over the course of one week.

In the last year and a half, New York City has scrambled to try and provide shelter and services to over 150,000 migrants. We take a look at how that’s going.

When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next?

During the highest turkey consumption period of the year, we bring you a This American Life tradition: stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds—real and imagined—and their mysterious hold over us.

Things our dads taught us, whether they intended to or not.

What happens when you realize the people in charge don’t have the answers.

You've been seeing yourself, getting to know what you look like, your whole life. So why does it often take an outsider to see things about you that are obvious, and set you straight?

People who have a good, long time to think about what they’re doing, look hard at what’s ahead of them, and decide to keep moving forward anyway.

Spots we’re avoiding in our private maps of the world.

Friends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding.

One call to a very unusual hotline and everything that followed.

Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey had a popular show called “The Rest of the Story.” Today on our show, we do just that. We hear from people who, whether they want to or not, find themselves face-to-face with the rest of their stories.

Nadia's family is split between Russia and Ukraine, which is pretty common. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, it didn’t just start fighting on the battlefield. It sparked family conflict, too. An intimate story of the war from writer Masha Gessen.

People  on the verge of a big change, not wanting to let go. And the people who give them the final push.

Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president on the argument that he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. So what's it like in Florida?

At a Yale fertility clinic, dozens of women began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure caused them excruciating pain. In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain — but most of the staff members who fielded the patients’ reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that a nurse at the clinic was stealing...

Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.

Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.

The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.

Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public with their stories? We tell the story of a teenager who spoke out against one of the most powerful people in her state, and what happened next.