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DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals, it's proving wrongdoing by police and prosecutors.
The story of an eighth grader who set himself on fire, and what led to that.
Life aboard an aircraft carrier stationed in the Arabian Sea supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan.
There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.
How the American Psychiatric Association decided that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
Personal recordings one person made for just one other person.
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."
A young boy, an abandoned house, and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.
People climbing to be number one. How do they do it?
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.
The events of September 11th, and how its meaning changes depending on who you talk to.
Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.
The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity.
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.
Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.
While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.
An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.
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.
Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.
Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.
The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.
Which is better: flight or invisibility?
Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life.
Democrats explain why they're having trouble getting over the 2001 election, and Republicans explain why this is so infuriating.
A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.
A live show taped for our fifth anniversary.
A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception.
One day in a Chicago diner.
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.
We go inside the back rooms of one multinational corporation and hear the intricate workings of how they put the fix in.
Stories of people who are trying to control how they'll be seen by generations to come.
Does anyone's family ever change?