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Top 10 Award Winning Episodes of This American Life

Aug 03, 2022 · 2 mins read

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The Out Crowd: Ep 688 | Nov. 15, 2019 | Pulitzer Prize | Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp, and from the officers who sent them.

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Our Town Part 1: Ep 632 & Part 2 Ep 633: | Dec. 8, 2017 | Columbia U. Award | Ira Glass spent eight months and did over a hundred interviews to try to bypass the usual rhetoric and get to the bottom of what really happened when undocumented workers showed up in one Alabama town.

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Will I Know Anyone at This Party?: Ep 600 | Oct. 28, 2016 | Columbia U. Award | Republicans feel like they don’t recognize their own party. Like a Minnesota congressman who’s confused when those in his district, people he’s known for years, start calling for a ban on Muslims.

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Anatomy of Doubt: Ep 581 | Feb 26, 2016 | Peabody Award | A story about doubt: how it germinated, spread, and eventually took hold of an entire community, with terrible consequences. A collaboration with The Marshall Project and ProPublica.

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The Night in Question: Ep 570 | Oct. 16, 2015 | Murrow Award | 20 years ago, the prime minister of Israel was assassinated. The killer was a lone gunman. Lots of witnesses saw it happen; the assassin confessed immediately. But today, oddly, lots of people don’t believe it.

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The Problem We All Live With: Ep 562 & 563 | Jul. 31, 2015 | Peabody & Polk Awards | People are trying to rethink education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite evidence that it works: desegregation.

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The Giant Pool of Money: Ep 355 | May 9, 2008 | Peabody, Polk & CU Awards | A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street?

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Harper High School: Ep 487 & 488 | February 15, 2013 | Peabody & CU Awards | We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. We went to get a sense of what it means to live amidst of all this gun violence.

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What Happened at Dos Erres: Ep 465 | May 12, 2012 | Peabody Award | In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred villagers of Dos Erres, killing over 200 people. 30 later, a Guatemalan man in the US learned that two boys were abducted during the massacre, and he was one of them.

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Very Tough Love: Ep 430 | March 25, 2011 | A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? Minimal offenses sometimes get 5-10 years.

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