This American Life Archive

Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.

Stories of people worshiping false idols, and whether that's always a bad thing.

An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.

Women planning to get pregnant with the help of a sperm bank tell us about the questions they wrestle with of how much they want to know about the fathers of their kids.

Tales of personal humiliation, romance gone wrong, and people who profoundly misjudge how they're perceived by others.

Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.

Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.

The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.