People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to Jorge Just, who thought he'd started over successfully. He'd moved to New York, found an apartment that everyone told him was a great deal, things were looking good. Then a reality television show visited his building. (8 minutes) Act One: Molly FitzSimons tells the story of her father starti...| This American Life
Since October 7th, while the world has focused its attention on Gaza, the Israeli government has tightened the screws on the three million Palestinians in the West Bank in all sorts of dramatic ways. We travel to the West Bank to see these changes in person. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Ira joins Hamed on his Monday commute. He has to navigate a constantly changing series of checkpoints and roadblocks to get to work each day. Hame...| This American Life
How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.| This American Life
When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Ira goes out with a letter carrier, ‘Grace,’ as she delivers mail on her route. He learns about the people who bring us our mail and also how people treat their mail. (11 minutes) Act One: Writing a letter decades after an event that shaped her life was the only way that Nicole Piasecki could make some sense of it. (18 mi...| This American Life
We spend a few days at the Iowa State Fair.| This American Life
The story of the most commonly performed surgery, and what goes wrong with it – terribly wrong – 100,000 times a year in the United States. We’re excited to bring you the first episode of The Retrievals, Season 2, the new show from longtime This American Life producer and editor Susan Burton. It’s from Serial Productions and The New York Times. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Ira Glass introduces the first episode of an inve...| This American Life
A woman with muscular dystrophy tries to convince doctors that she has the same gene mutation as an Olympic athlete.| This American Life
People on a mission to achieve their goals before their window of opportunity closes. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: Guest host Emmanuel Dzotsi goes to a packed sports bar in Brooklyn for his favorite soccer team’s biggest game in years. (6 minutes) Act One: Connie Wang tells the story of a championship window she didn't realize she was in — until it was too late. (14 minutes) Act Two: Seth Lind, our Operations Director, isn...| This American Life
The story of a police officer and a squirrel. Plus, a small town production of Peter Pan goes off the rails.| This American Life
On his first day in office, President Trump decided to freeze all U.S. foreign aid. Soon after, his administration effectively dissolved USAID—the federal agency that delivers billions in food, medicine, and other aid worldwide. Many of its programs have been canceled. Now, as USAID officially winds down, we try to assess its impact. What was good? What was not so good? We meet people around the world wrestling with these questions and trying to navigate this chaotic moment. Visit thisameri...| This American Life
One car dealership tries to make its monthly quota: 129 cars. It is way more chaotic than we expected.| This American Life
A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.| This American Life
Conversations across a divide: People who are outside a war zone check in with family, friends, and strangers inside. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: The Hammash family’s group chat unfolds over texts, starting before the war. (8 minutes) Act One: When Yousef Hammash left Gaza a year ago, his sisters decided to stay behind. We hear about the toll that separation has taken on Yousef and the sister he’s closest to, Aseel. (30 minut...| This American Life
A show about people who are suddenly confronted with who they are.| This American Life
People immersed in chaos try to solve for what it all adds up to. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: A scientist who is used to organizing data starts tracking scientific meetings that seem to exist only on paper—meetings that might decide the fate of years of research. The NIH website shows one reality; the empty conference rooms tell another story. She graphs the chaos. (9 minutes) Act One: American doctors returning from Gaza comp...| This American Life
People struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.| This American Life
Artifacts and exhibits of this particular moment we are living through.| This American Life
A weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.| This American Life
People stuck in a loop, trying to find their way out.| This American Life
Here are four pitches for stories for our show. All of them made it onto the program. This first story was the anchor for show #385 Pro Se. Jon's been on the show before, is a veteran reporter and author, and reported the story himself. From: Jon Ronson Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:11:53 +0100 This story is about the Scientologists. It's about the crack team of scientologists called the CCHR who are dedicated to destroying the industry of psychiatry. They think psychiatrists are the most evil pe...| This American Life