At Littlefield in Brooklyn.
The holidays are stressful so we booked a seasonal pick-me-up: an hour of comedy.
Stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up.
Stories of neighbors watching out for each other, for better and worse.
The rise and fall of a school maintenance man in Schenectady, New York who terrorized his staff and got away with it for decades.
Photographs from the story.
An animation about “Toxie,” a toxic asset that reporters from Planet Money bought in 2010.
Reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset that turned out to be an encyclopedia of the financial crisis.
Photos from "Trickle Down History" and "Minor Authorities."
Two best friends get tired of yelling at their TVs and decide to form a Tea Party chapter to effect political change.
A New York police officer secretly records his supervisors ordering officers to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do.
Here's the comic Chris made for the show "Superpowers."
Nine of us go to small towns in Georgia to ask around until we find stories.
Photos of Windell Cleveland.
It's honestly pretty amazing.
Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident.
In 2008, 501 images were sent from a radio telescope in Eupatoria, Ukraine, towards Gliese 581 c, a planet 118 trillion miles away. Here are some of those images.
Stories of people held captive — by criminals, by paperwork, and in one man's case, his own body — and the ways they try to cope.
Blanketing a country in aid and money has never really worked so well. Is there a chance things could be different in Haiti?
Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet?
Bill Moyers played our original broadway song.
This is a tribute to the song "We Can Do It" from The Producers where Nathan Lane explains his unlikely get-rich-quick scheme. Written by Robert Lopez (Book of Mormon, Frozen) to describe the financial deal in our episode "Inside Job."
Broadway's first ever investigative reporting musical comedy number.
The inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us.
Living behind enemy lines, among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.
A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry.
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.
Thank you to the 13,000 listeners who voted for their favorite stories.
We try to turn their random ideas into actual stories.
Photos from Jane's Dad's story.
Images to go along with Episode 199: "The House on Loon Lake."
Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds.