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So much of the fight for the presidency is coming down to battles for small slices of voters who can help throw swing states to one candidate or another. Abbas Alawieh, a leader in the Uncommitted movement, grapples with how to get his voters the

Chen Almog-Goldstein was kidnapped by Hamas along with her three youngest children on October 7, 2023. This week, she tells the story of their life as hostages in Gaza.

• Prologue: The 251 hostages taken by Hamas a year ago have become a divisive

People caught in limbo, using ingenuity and guile to try to get themselves out.

• Prologue: Rachel has two kids. Elias, age seven, is a vegetarian. Theo, age five, is not. But Elias wants Theo, and everyone else in the house, to be vegetarian too. So

One kid comes to America as an exchange student and commits herself to the senior year experience.

• Prologue: We talk to high school seniors in Salt Lake City who are trying to have the perfect year. (5 minutes)
• Act One: Every year, thousands of

People trying and struggling to see what another person sees. 

• Prologue: Guest-host Tobin Low talks to comedian Tig Notaro about a jarring ride to school with her son. (6 minutes)
• Act One: Producer Aviva DeKornfeld heads to the Calgary Stampede to

Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.

• Prologue: A big bull, a giant slide, and cowboys on

The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.

• Prologue: At the announcement of New York City’s inaugural rat czar, we meet Darneice Foster, who despises the rats outside her apartment. And host Ira Glass

Stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreak, the lives they change.

• Prologue: Ira goes out birding with birder extraordinaire Noah Strycker, who tells the dramatic story of the bird that changed his life: the turkey vulture.

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

• 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.