This American Life (Radio)

In the hospital, we're in a place that has its own rules and its own language and its own customs.

Stories of kids trying to act like adults—some by choice—some because they're forced to

Stories from the New Hampshire primary. We hear from voters who've found candidates they love. And we hear what those voters are seeing that the rest of us aren't.

What if you held onto a high-school crush? Under what conditions would it never go away? Tobias Wolff reads a short story called "Kiss."

The story of the book The Lonely Doll and its author, and how the author's life came to resemble something from her book.

Exactly how much are the animals that live in our home caught up in everyday family dynamics?

Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does.

Stories of people revisiting what happened, and who they were back when.

All those people you see in the middle of the workday, in coffee shops and bookstores—why aren't they at work?

The pleasure and the terror of being in a rampaging, angry mob.

Stories of moms: How they treat us, how we treat them.

David Foster Wallace reports on a turning point in the 2000 presidential primary.

A look at what's going on inside the individual glass and steel worlds of our cars.

Stories of people who did not want to move but circumstance forced their hands.

Stories of people who stand up alone for what's right, damn the consequences.

Crime scenes and the stories they tell.

David Sedaris takes Ira on a tour of his favorite spots in Paris.

Does anyone's family ever change?

Stories of people who are trying to control how they'll be seen by generations to come.

We go inside the back rooms of one multinational corporation and hear the intricate workings of how they put the fix in.

What does it mean to grow up in a country with an inalienable right to pursue happiness?

We look at a 1996 immigration law that is too obscure for most of us to have heard of, but which affects tens of thousands of lives in huge ways.

Stories for the eve of the 2000 presidential election, in which we try to look beneath the candidates' soundbites.

One day in a Chicago diner.

A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception.

A live show taped for our fifth anniversary.