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A teenage girl becomes a whole new person when she becomes the tiger mascot at her high school.

People dealing with new, glaring, massive changes happening right where they live.

Moments when it seems obvious what to do for someone else, so of course you jump in.

People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times.

Nikole Hannah-Jones famously argued for sending her daughter to a regular public school in NYC. Ten years later, she revisits that choice.

Sayre Quevedo and his twin brother Connor set out to find their long-lost birth father.

We think we've found the original Coca-Cola recipe, one of the world's most guarded trade secrets.

We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions!

Dave Blanchard runs the public radio show Wild Card. And one of the less exciting and, in fact, rather tedious parts of his job is that he has to keep an eye on the comments that people post about the show online.…

Iran has been under a total internet blackout since the war began. We found a way to get voice memos out of the country. It was dangerous — but people wanted to be heard.

People who end up with far more power than they bargained for, and everything that comes with it.

One family faces the Trump administration’s ban on trans people serving in the military, and responds with a surprising secret weapon.

Ira Glass talks with longtime producer Nancy Updike about the most personal stories they have put on the radio. This is a sample of the bonus episodes we regularly release to our This American Life Partners.…

Ira Glass shares some news about This American Life To sign up as a Life Partner, visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners

How one block in Portland, Oregon became a movie-set war zone that lots of people think is a real war zone. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription — or to give one as a gift!…