This American Life Archive

508: Superpowers 18.10.2013 ↓

Which is better: flight or invisibility?

507: Confessions 11.10.2013 ↓

What should a person suspected of murder say?

506: Secret Identity 04.10.2013 ↓

A teenage girl becomes a whole new person when she becomes the school mascot — a tiger — at her high school.

505: Use Only as Directed 20.09.2013 ↓

More than 150 Americans die each year on average after accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.

504: How I Got Into College 06.09.2013 ↓

How a stolen library book got one man into his dream school and changed his life forever. Or at least that's the story he tells himself.

503: I Was Just Trying To Help 16.08.2013 ↓

Planet Money looks at a charity that's decided to just give people money.

502: This Call May Be Recorded... To Save Your Life 09.08.2013 ↓

A journalist gets a disturbing tip: a phone number to a group of refugees being held hostage in the Sinai desert.

501: The View From In Here 26.07.2013 ↓

An American woman suddenly trades her life for one in a place most people might think twice about: Juarez, Mexico.

500: 500! 12.07.2013 ↓

Ira asks the producers to talk about their very favorite moments on the show.

499: Taking Names 28.06.2013 ↓

The story of a guy named Kirk Johnson, who started a list of Iraqis who needed to get out of their country.

498: The One Thing You're Not Supposed To Do 21.06.2013 ↓

People who know something's a bad idea, but convince themselves to do that thing anyway.

497: This Week 14.06.2013 ↓

All of the stories in the show are things that have taken place in the last seven days.

496: When Patents Attack... Part Two! 31.05.2013 ↓

Why people say our patent system may be discouraging, not encouraging, innovation.

495: Hot In My Backyard 17.05.2013 ↓

Why has the conversation on climate change been stuck in the same place for years?

494: Hit the Road 03.05.2013 ↓

A man decides to take a trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco—by foot.

493: Picture Show 19.04.2013 ↓

Israeli soldiers take snapshots of Palestinian boys, one house at a time, in the middle of the night.

492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde 12.04.2013 ↓

Did a beloved family doctor with no criminal history suddenly up and strangle his own father?

491: Tribes 29.03.2013 ↓

A white guy who only wants to date Asian women has to adjust to the reality of a real actual Asian woman in his life.

490: Trends With Benefits 22.03.2013 ↓

The startling rise of the number of people on disability in America.

489: No Coincidence, No Story! 01.03.2013 ↓

We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions!

488: Harper High School - Part Two 22.02.2013 ↓

Part two of our program on Harper High School in Chicago, where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.

487: Harper High School - Part One 15.02.2013 ↓

We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.

486: Valentine’s Day 08.02.2013 ↓

A couple decides to sleep with other people before they tie the knot. Plus, more stories of love making us do crazy things.

485: Surrogates 25.01.2013 ↓

The proxy battle over a woman’s honor that became a presidential obsession.

484: Doppelgängers 11.01.2013 ↓

We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari and decided to investigate.