This American Life

Three stories of people who hatched plans in the hopes of making their dreams come true, but were snapped back to reality by unpleasant outcomes: an e...

An exploration of the benefits and costs of stubbornness. If you're a 15-year-old boy, and you don't want to fall in love, maybe you can just decide n...

An artist, his Jesus-model, the model's girlfriend, the girlfriend's father, and a bunch of bearded men all converge in Utah. An elaborate artistic ta...

Being behind the camera changes you. It's not just that you see everything differently; you act differently also. This episode features two stories, o...

What do you do if you don't like where you are in life? You simply decide to move forward, into the next stage, by sheer force of will. A widow; an am...

Three stories of consequences that follow from human beings' doing what we do best: poking our noses everywhere, fixing things that may or may not be...