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  00:59:57

  659: Before the Next One

  This American Life 14 Oct starstarstarstarstar add

  There’s no rulebook on how to handle a school shooting. And no real way to prepare for one. This week, people take what they’ve learned from these tragedies and try to use that knowledge to save others.

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  01:00:06

  658: The Unhappy Deciders

  This American Life 7 Oct starstarstarstarstar add

  Making big decisions about other people's lives can feel pretty awful. Zoe Chace followed Senator Jeff Flake as he decided to force the Senate to delay its vote on Judge Kavanaugh. Among her discoveries: Those protestors in the elevator? They aren’t the reason he did what he did.

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  00:59:58

  489: No Coincidence, No Story!

  This American Life 30 Sep starstarstarstarstar add

  We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a bus station to a romantic dollar bill to a baffling apparition in a college shower stall.

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  01:02:23

  657: The Runaways

  This American Life 23 Sep starstarstarstarstar add

  A bunch of teenagers go missing from a town in Long Island. For months, the police treat them as runaways, ignoring the kids' parents, who keep trying to tell them otherwise. They keep trying to tell them that something much worse might have happened.

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  01:16:44

  656: Let Me Count the Ways

  This American Life 16 Sep starstarstarstarstar_half add

  Yes, youʼve heard about the family separations. Youʼve heard about the travel ban. But there are dozens of ways the Trump administration is cracking down on immigration across many agencies, sometimes in ways so small and technical it doesnʼt make headlines. This week, the quiet bureaucratic war that’s even targeting legal immigrants.

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  01:07:41

  402: Save the Day

  This American Life 9 Sep starstarstarstarstar add

  Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong—including one man's mission to rescue two kids who were kidnapped by alleged murderers and taken to Mexico, and another about a professor's mission to keep the educators of a liberal arts college from extinction.

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  00:58:10

  504: How I Got Into College

  This American Life 2 Sep starstarstarstarstar add

  Students all over are starting college this month, and some of them still have a nagging question: what, exactly, got me in? An admissions officer tells us the most wrongheaded things applicants try. And Michael Lewis has the incredible story of how a stolen library book got one man — Emir Kamenica — into his dream school.

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