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 ...

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, ...

Ira Glass is a writer, producer, storyteller, performer, and a familiar voice. His show This American Life has set the contemporary standard of nonfiction radio shows, and has influenced and inspired ...

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 ...

After hearing what Mike Daisey had to say for himself on this weekend's retraction episode of This American Life, the Internet has had a moment to step back and think about what it all means for ...

With Podcast Canon, Benjamin Cannon analyzes the history of podcasts and interrogates how we talk about the art form. In December of 1995, Your Radio Playhouse broadcast its first episode on Chicago’s ...

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 ...

The long-running radio show and podcast This American Life is moving its podcast ad sales to National Public Media from New York Times Co. in the latest sign of shifting fortunes in the podcast ...

After 17 years, Ira Glass’s incredibly popular radio show, This American Life, will no longer be distributed by Public Radio International. “During our most recent negotiation, it became clear that ...

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 ...

During a time when a lot of us feel like we are living in a holding pattern, stories of people feeling stuck. Words can seem so puny and ineffective sometimes. On this show, we have stories in which ...