This American Life Archive

683: Beer Summit 06.09.2019 ↓

Two people, sitting down over a beer, hashing out their differences. Hard to imagine these days, right?

682: Ten Sessions 16.08.2019 ↓

A therapy that helps people work through unhealed trauma in just ten sessions.

681: Escape From the Lab 09.08.2019 ↓

What happens when our most ingenious creations actually make it out into the world.

680: The Weight Of Words (2019) 20.07.2019 ↓

Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful — whether in a survival manual, a song lyric, or a slur.

679: Save the Girl 05.07.2019 ↓

People go on missions to save girls from danger. But they get so caught up that it overshadows the girl herself.

678: The Wannabes 28.06.2019 ↓

We hang out with the presidential candidates, in this weird early period of the election.

677: Seeing Yourself In the Wild 07.06.2019 ↓

Stories of those unexpected moments when we see who we really are.

676: Here’s Looking at You, Kid 24.05.2019 ↓

Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering — are they right?

675: I’m on TV?? 10.05.2019 ↓

What it's like to be momentarily big on the small screen.

674: Get a Spine! 26.04.2019 ↓

Stories of people shaking off their fear and doing what they’ve been scared to do.

673: Left Behind 12.04.2019 ↓

People figuring out how to move through a world in which something important has disappeared.

672: No Fair! 29.03.2019 ↓

Stories of very small injustices and also one very big one.

671: Anything Can Be Anything 22.03.2019 ↓

People connecting the dots that maybe should not be connected.

670: Beware the Jabberwock 08.03.2019 ↓

Stories from the upside-down world where conspiracy theorists dwell.

669: Scrambling to Get Off the Ice 22.02.2019 ↓

The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee try out their new powers for the first time.

668: The Long Fuse 08.02.2019 ↓

People tossing words out into the world impulsively to ignite and burn over decades.

667: Wartime Radio 25.01.2019 ↓

Intimate and personal dispatches from two very different battlefields.

666: The Theme That Shall Not Be Named 11.01.2019 ↓

Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us.

665: Before Things Went to Hell 28.12.2018 ↓

Revisiting those moments of calm before the storm.

664: The Room of Requirement 13.12.2018 ↓

Stories of people who roam the stacks and find unexpected things that just happen to be exactly what they required.

663: How I Read It 01.12.2018 ↓

Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect.

662: Where There Is a Will 08.11.2018 ↓

Stories of people who believe there is always a way. And also those who don’t.

660: Hoaxing Yourself 01.11.2018 ↓

People who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else.

661: But That's What Happened 26.10.2018 ↓

Stories of women in unsettling situations, who are told that there’s nothing unsettling at all.

658: The Unhappy Deciders 01.10.2018 ↓

Zoe Chace followed Senator Jeff Flake as he decided to force the Senate to delay its vote on Judge Kavanaugh.