- The Other Mr. President Stories about Vladimir Putin. Did he come to power in 1999 by killing hundreds of innocent Russians? How’s he really seen in his home country? https://www.thisamericanlife.org/763/the-other-mr-president 37 comments worldnews
- This is breaking the rules but it belongs here like nothing else. This American Life interviews a Guantanamo bay dentainee and his captors. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/752/an-invitation-to-tea 35 comments truereddit
- This American Life's newest Episode "The Impossible Dream" is a detailed and fascinating look at the current level of dysfunction in Congress. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/642/the-impossible-dream 18 comments politics
- This American Life - The Beginning of Now https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/615/the-beginning-of-now 5 comments politics
- Seriously? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/599/seriously 3 comments politics
- Weird "L" pronunciation within words [English] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/531/got-your-back 14 comments linguistics
- 'This American Life' did a segment on Cisco's Hold Music. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/516/stuck-in-the-middle?act=1 92 comments sysadmin
- A BBC / This American Life radio exploration of the life and work of William Burroughs, narrated by Iggy Pop (xpost from r/litvideos) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/546/burroughs-101 3 comments books
- A Hasidic community in New York has taken over the local school board, shuttering public schools in favor of their private religious schools http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/534/transcript 7 comments indepthstories
- This American Life podcast team spend a month in a car dealership http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/129-cars 6 comments sales
- 536: The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/the-secret-recordings-of-carmen-segarra 20 comments politics
- This American Life: The Story of Nauru http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere 4 comments geopolitics
- Josh was appointed to the Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin system. Josh was everything you'd want in a student who was going to fulfill this role. That is, until Governor Scott Walker's administration discovered he signed the recall petition. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/509/it-says-so-right-here?act=3#play 24 comments politics
- Emails From A Dead Man: emails between Iraqi who worked with US forces and US Immigration Office beseeching help for family to escape Iraq after death threats starting July 2011. After constant bureaucratic vaccilation and incompetence, he and his brother are now dead, and his family still in Iraq. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/takingnames/ 11 comments worldnews
- The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled since the 1990s welfare reform. In one Alabama county, one fourth of working age adults are on disability. 'This American Life' explores why. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/trends-with-benefits 16 comments politics
- If you have an hour to kill, listen to this 1996 episode of This American Life, all about the '96 Bulls (72-10), and the Chicagoans caught up in it. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/25/basketball 3 comments nba
- This American Life discusses "Steve Blass Disease" in one of their episodes. Anybody else hear this before? It's pretty a fascinating story about the collapse of pitchers http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/462/own-worst-enemy?act=1#play 7 comments baseball
- McCain on Supreme Court overturning McCain-Feingold:."complete naiveté ass, displayed...not the slightest clue as to what a political campaign is all about, and the role of money that it plays in political campaigns...one of the worst decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court..." http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/tal_461bonus_mccain_feingold_transcript.pdf 3 comments politics
- Today 'This American Life' explicitly exposes what many know and have had a hard time backing up until now: the US Congress is strictly pay-to-play. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office 323 comments politics
- "Ira writes: We've learned that Mike Daisey's story about Apple in China - which we broadcast in January - contained significant fabrications. We're retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth, and this weekend's episode of our show will explain the errors in the story." http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog 180 comments apple
- This American Life devotes hour detailing fabrications in Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn factory. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction 29 comments apple
- This American Life looks at what has happened in Colorado Springs since they've embraced privatization and libertarian ideals to avoid raising taxes http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/459/what-kind-of-country?act=3 75 comments politics
- A wonderfully candid conversation between Ira Glass and a sailor onboard the aircraft carrier USS Stennis. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/01/from-the-vault-somewhere-in-the-arabian-sea 5 comments politics
- This American Life: A sober look at Chinese factories where Apple (and other tech giants) have their devices manufactured by hand. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory 50 comments apple
- This American Life just did an episode on Foxconn http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory 20 comments technology
- A possible cure for cancer, killing cancer cells with sound waves http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/450/so-crazy-it-just-might-work?act=1 174 comments science
- When Patents Attack [npr] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack 9 comments opensource
- Remember all the right-wingers who are hot to trot about "tort reform?" How come we never hear them screaming about this bullshit? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack 4 comments politics
- Did you listen to this week's This American Life about Drug Court? If not, you should. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/430/very-tough-love 3 comments reddit.com
- Renegade Judge Amanda Williams from GA Drug Court profiled on TAL. Certified nutjob... http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/430/very-tough-love 30 comments politics
- Anybody listen to This American Life episode on the Reagan Library in which grade school kids reenact the invasion of Grenada, and then frame the failed invasion as the fault of the US media and force kids to blame a free press on the failed invasion? I think that is wrong and subversive. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/424/kid-politics 12 comments politics
- I know Reddit likes stories about corrupt police, so I figured you'd like the second part of this week's This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent 4 comments reddit.com
- Goldman Sach's wasn't the only company behind the con. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job 6 comments worldnews
- This American Life: Scenes from a Recession. What it's really like to live in an unfinished condo building, to work at a bank on the day the Feds take it over, to sell everything that isn't bolted down at a Circuit City. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=377 9 comments politics
- This Texas couple did not learn that you should never talk to cops. Amazing, infuriating story of what happened to two people when they tried to do a good deed. [Podcast from "This American Life."] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?sched=1325 38 comments reddit.com
- This American Life does the banking crisis. Insightful as usual. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=375 4 comments worldnews
- This American Life takes a look at the bailout and toxic assets. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=375 4 comments business
- This American Life: Heretics - The story of how one evangelical pastor was transformed by the realization that there is no hell, and how it destroyed everything he'd worked for his entire life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=304 2 comments reddit.com
- This American Life explains the current financial crisis. Very informative. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=365 3 comments reddit.com
- Next time you clean your house, put "This American Life" on high volume in the background. It's latest episode gives the best analysis of the bailout that I've yet heard. http://www.thisamericanlife.org 3 comments reddit.com