This American Life (Radio)

A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.

Democrats explain why they're having trouble getting over the 2001 election, and Republicans explain why this is so infuriating.

Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life.

Which is better: flight or invisibility?

The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.

Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.

Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.

Tales of personal humiliation, romance gone wrong, and people who profoundly misjudge how they're perceived by others.

Women planning to get pregnant with the help of a sperm bank tell us about the questions they wrestle with of how much they want to know about the fathers of their kids.

An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.

Stories of people worshiping false idols, and whether that's always a bad thing.

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.

Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.

Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

A modern-day fable about what happens when the free market, the media, the World War II buffs, the Neo-Nazis, and the Jews all collide over a huge Nazi tourist trap.

There's a deep impulse in American culture that says that you can make yourself into anyone.

Scott Carrier travels cross-country without air conditioning, during weather in which it's too hot to stay in the car and too hot to get out.

The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity.

A collection of stories in which people try to make sense of loss.

Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.

We try to sort out what the war in Afghanistan will be like.

The events of September 11th, and how its meaning changes depending on who you talk to.

In 1946, a man started to investigate the Holocaust before it was known as the Holocaust, gathering the first recorded testimonials of concentration camp survivors.

Stories of people climbing to be number one. How do they do it?

A young boy, an abandoned house, and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.

Of all the wars to win, perhaps the propaganda war is the hardest.

In a time of war, when we're all feeling a heightened sense of "us" and "them," we wanted to take up the problem of "them."

Stories of faith: losing it, talking about it, constructing it, and working within it.