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In a time of war, when we're all feeling a heightened sense of "us" and "them," we wanted to take up the problem of "them."
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A young boy, an abandoned house, and the mysterious family who disappeared without a trace.
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Stories of people climbing to be number one. How do they do it?
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In 1946, a man started to investigate the Holocaust before it was known as the Holocaust, gathering the first recorded testimonials of concentration camp survivors.
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The events of September 11th, and how its meaning changes depending on who you talk to.
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Stories in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.
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The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity.
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A modern-day fable about what happens when the free market, the media, the World War II buffs, the Neo-Nazis, and the Jews all collide over a huge Nazi tourist trap.
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Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
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Stories of dads who are utterly human in scale.
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While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.
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An average Chicagoan decides to appeal the disputes and problems in his neighborhood to a higher authority, Mr. Rogers. Yes, that Mr. Rogers.
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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.
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Stories from Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling tales sound like nothing else on the radio.
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Alex Blumberg tries to find a woman who babysat him when he was nine, and other stories of people trying to revisit their childhoods.
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The story of what was, at one time, one of most notoriously racist and corrupt suburbs in America.
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Which is better: flight or invisibility?
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Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life.
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Democrats explain why they're having trouble getting over the 2001 election, and Republicans explain why this is so infuriating.
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A brother and sister decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.