This American Life (Radio)

Making a lasting love match isn't as simple as writing a check.

We go into the writers' room at The Onion, where they start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week.

Stories about couples that happen decades after the moment their eyes meet.

Teachers tell us about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building called "the rubber room."

Stories of people who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.

In 1912, a four-year-old boy went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. But two grief-stricken mothers both claimed the same boy as their own.

Stories of the Bush Administration's quest to redefine the limits of presidential power.

Freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds.

The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.

Things go badly for the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11.

Stories of concealed truths bubbling to the surface, including a new story by Etgar Keret.

Stories of social engineering on a small scale.

Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths.

Two baby girls born in a small-town hospital are accidentally switched, and go home with the wrong families. 

Mike Birbiglia talks about the sleepwalking that nearly killed him.

Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter.

Stories about people who take the law into their own hands.

Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.

A look at what regulators could've done to prevent the financial crisis from happening in the first place.

Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems.

We go to Pennsylvania to figure out why both McCain and Obama think they can win there.

Stories of privilege and the lengths some will go to to maintain it.

A man in Pakistan buys an amulet with the power to protect anyone from harm. He tests it out on a chicken.

Stories of people who ruin things for everyone else, or who are accused of that.

We document life in a mall in Tennessee during the run-up to Christmas.