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869: Harold

Date
Sunday, October 05, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

When Zohran Mamdani won the primary race for New York mayor, the Democratic establishment's lukewarm response echoed the treatment of another charismatic, unconventional candidate decades earlier. This week, we bring you the story of Harold

286: Mind Games

Date
Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads.

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  • Prologue: Host Ira Glass interviews Lori Gottlieb about the time

868: The Hand That Rocks The Gavel

Date
Sunday, September 21, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.

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  • Prologue: Zoe Chace gives

867: College Disorientation

Date
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Things are different on college campuses this year. We see inside the drama, with students and staff.

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  • Prologue: We go to orientation at Arizona State University and meet

866: Watch Out for That Tree

Date
Sunday, September 07, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

Small human plans that run into much larger obstacles.

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  • Prologue: Angela's dad, an accountant, made a spreadsheet to prepare for their family trip to a national park. But

233: Starting From Scratch

Date
Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.

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  • Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to Jorge Just, who thought he'd started over

865: The Other Territory

Date
Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

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

831: Lists!!!

Date
Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.

  • Prologue: Ira interviews David Wallechinsky, who wrote a wildly popular book in the 1970s called The Book of Lists, full of trivia and research, gathered into lists like "18 Brains" and

838: Letters! Actual Letters!

Date
Sunday, August 10, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Description

When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

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  • Prologue: Ira goes out with a letter carrier, ‘Grace,’ as she delivers mail on her route. He