An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

How Black America talks to the White House.

Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.

One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A singer keeps getting close to stardom. And then something falls apart.

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

You’re 19 years old. You get famous overnight. You move to LA. Now what?

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

A Canadian man won’t touch money, except to destroy it.

Qaddafi’s son is alive. And he wants to take Libya back.

“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”

Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.

After years of avoiding the uncomfortable truths about how his gadgets are made, a Mac fanboy travels to Foxconn to see for himself.

Update 3/16/12: This American Life retracted this story today after it was revealed to have “contained significant fabrications.”

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.

The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.

A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.

Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.

Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.

A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.