From the moment we wake up in the morning there are a trillion rules — big and little — governing our lives. But sometimes, we encounter one we just can’t abide by. In a pitched moment of ...

Meanwhile, This American Life has also gone independent from its longtime distributor, PRI, and they are also launching a new podcast in the fall called Serial —which, yes, will present a long ...

"This American Life" host Ira Glass will give a talk at the Lied Center this month. What makes a story worth telling? To illustrate, Ira Glass does a magic trick. After a couple of attempts with an ...

It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995 at WBEZ, in Chicago, ...

A colleague shared with me a photo of a Post-it note with the words “Become Empathy Machines!” scrawled on it, taken at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2016. [1] It ...

EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing a half-hour comedy series based on the 2021 This American Life segment “I Was a Teenage Smuggler.” The series will be penned by Joanna Calo, Carlos López Estrada and the ...

"Jeopardy!" champ Ryan Long opened up about the struggles he faced as a child growing up in Philadelphia on the latest episode of the podcast "This American Life." Long, a former rideshare driver from ...

As rough a year as it has been for media and entertainment in general, the mood in podcasting has been positively apocalyptic. The medium’s rapid ascent over the past decade, fueled by a mix of ...

In a decade on the air, the public radio show This American Life (TAL) has grown from a cult-sized treasure into a mainstream hit, pulling in a million-plus listeners each week. Its diehard fans have ...

Over the weekend, public radio’s “This American Life” reported about an overdose prevention hotline saving the life of a North Adams, Massachusetts woman. WAMC listeners may remember Stephen Murray ...

“This American Life” asked listeners to send in their best coincidence stories — and received more than 1,300 submissions. There were so many good ones, the show dedicated an entire episode to them: a ...

Brodsky is a contributor for TIME. Society This American Life is such a staple in the podcasting space, it would be easy to forget that it actually began 30 years ago as a radio show. But it's easy to ...