This American Life Archive

As China's new national security law tightens its control over Hong Kong, we return to our episode about last fall's anti-government protests and check in to see how people are responding.

How Covid-19 has changed the nurses and doctors at one hospital in Detroit, and their city.

We hear what different people said and did one weekend in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.

In this moment of sorrow, protest, and rage, we offer this as a break from the dreadful present: our show about Afrofuturism.

Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. She's great at it. But then, her niece goes missing.

Our favorite stories from the football fields, boxing rings, and basketball courts of days past.

What the Trump administration’s "Remain in Mexico" policy really means, on the ground, at the Mexican border.

During a time when a lot of us feel like we are living in a holding pattern, stories of people feeling stuck.

Ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to their loved ones.

Desperate to know what happened to his family, a man obsessively decodes the only information about them he can get.