This American Life (Radio)

The story of what some have called the greatest phone message in the world.

How the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.

There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.

Life aboard an aircraft carrier stationed in the Arabian Sea supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan.

Stories about people who were told that they're different.

Stories of high drama from our nation's workplaces.

The story of an eighth grader who set himself on fire, and what led to that.

DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals, it's proving wrongdoing by police and prosecutors.

When you turn someone over to the authorities, it can set into motion lots of huge, unintended consequences.

Stories about what happens when a new guy comes on the scene and changes everything.

Stories of people who try to convince you that the devil is there, whispering in your ear.

We take the laws of physics and apply them to the realm of human relationships.

Stories about people who turned to the experts and got horrible advice.

Ira Glass goes to a fake wedding at a home for Alzheimer's patients.

Two years after the Mideast peace process collapsed, we wanted to understand what that has done to people living in Israel and the West Bank.

A group of inmates at a high-security prison stage a production of the last act of Hamlet.

What happened after a group of Native American girls from one town found themselves being chased down the highway by a group of white boys from another town.

Stories of people traveling under false identities, not for power or personal gain, but for their own deeper personal reasons.

Some people have a rather dark worldview that divides people into two groups: Suckers and non-suckers.

We take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the paper and fill a program with stories that come from the ads.

"Hi, middleman. Here are three splendid acts to toast your subtle virtues."

Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them?

Stories of people stuck in moments that they revisit over and over again.

We still have some basic questions about why we're going to war and whether it's a good thing.