794: So Close and Yet So Far
People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.
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654: The Feather Heist
A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.
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793: The Problem with Ghosts
The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.
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792: When to Leave
People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave?
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639: In Dog We Trust
Exactly how much are the animals that live in our homes caught up in our everyday family dynamics?
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556: Same Bed, Different Dreams
People who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures.
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791: Math or Magic?
When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning-strike magic. The other says, make a calculation and choose the best option available. Who has it right?
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542: Wait—Do You Have The Map?
Feeling lost and trying to figure out how to move ahead.
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790: You're It
Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.
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789: The Runaround
People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.
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174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
They mean something, whether we want them to or not.
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788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
Writer Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture his late mother, but it’s hard, he says, because she’s like Maria in West Side Story and she’s also like Thanos from the Avengers. He ends up with a series of very short stories — most
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598: My Undesirable Talent
San Francisco’s Spider-Man burglar was remarkable. He dropped into buildings from skylights, leapt 10 feet from one roof to another. But mostly, his talent got him into trouble. This week, his story, and stories of other undesirable talents.
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787: Baby's First Christmas
People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.
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402: Save the Day
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.
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786: It's a Game Show!
Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
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785: Through the Looking Glass
People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
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351: Return to Childhood
People who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.
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784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
In 2015, voters in Ohio approved a Republican constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering in the state—one of the first of its kind. And then Ohio Republicans drew electoral maps that violated their own constitutional amendment, and those are the
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783: Kids These Days
We hear from kids who are dealing with some of the country’s most contentious debates. Debates that are supposedly about them.
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754: Spark Bird
This bird-focused week, stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreak, the lives they change.
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782: Family Dig
Two people go on excavations of their families’ pasts. Including the first episode of the new podcast, “We Were Three,” hosted by our longtime producer, Nancy Updike, and from Serial Productions and The New York Times.
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781: Watching the Watchers
People taking it upon themselves to keep an eye on those in charge.
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780: Setting the Record Straight
Getting to the facts can be difficult, but it’s always the right thing to do. Except when it isn’t.
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779: Ends of the Earth
An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.
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778: Me Minus Me
When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were?
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777: Name. Age. Detail.
Ten people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY. Their stories, as you’ve never heard them.
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776: I Work Better on Deadline
Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?
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775: The Possum Experiment
An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?
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774: The Pink House at the Center of the World
The Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade began with a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi abortion clinic. On the day Roe was overturned, we were there. Stories from the center of this moment of history, the day it happened.
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