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This American Life summaries
Every long episode from This American Life, read in minutes: the key takeaways, the chapters, and a digest of the whole conversation. Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right no…
898: An Argument
Nicole Hannah-Jones reflects on her decade-old decision to enroll her daughter in a segregated public school, exploring the complex realities of educational inequality and integration.
897: Intergenerational Space Travel
Producer Josh Reddick's new walk-up song has become a huge part of Major League Baseball.
646: The Secret of My Death
A man who went to a stranger’s funeral and had to piece together all the stuff he would want to know in that kind of situation.
896: I Know What You Need
School nurse Meredith Manwaring and her district's superintendent and health department fought a measles outbreak and won. They share how they did it, and what they learned.
206: Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
Life on an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, where thousands of young people are cooped up together for months at a time, far from home, and trying to keep people from having sex with each other.
895: Label Maker!
Comedian Janet McNamara and others discuss the labels we apply to ourselves and others, and the surprising power these labels can hold.