This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories. (more)

The Aftermath, Inc., headquarters is nestled in a strip of ordinary office buildings in the Chicago suburbs, but there’s nothing bland about the service the company provides. (more)

Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks. (more)

A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing. (more)

Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police? (more)

This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family. (more)

Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life. (more)

To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)

This is a true story about bike commuting, theft and making the best of a bad situation. (more)

This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight-up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by. (more)

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you’ve flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared. (more)

This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives. (more)

America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers. (more)

This story is a tale of love, betrayal, and a secret. (more)

Youth Radio producers Ise Lyfe, Gerald Ward II, and Bianca Yarborough chronicle the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community. (more)

For every action there is a reaction. This week we look at consequences, both micro and macro. (more)

This hour: the strange world of competitive model horse collecting and an investigation of an old classmate’s death. (more)