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150 episodes • 0 archived •

Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus

April 1

26 mins

Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

March 28

24 mins

A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation

March 25

21 mins

Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

March 21

28 mins

We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”

March 18

23 mins

Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

March 14

27 mins

How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

March 10

23 mins

What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine

March 7

37 mins

Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television

March 4

16 mins

Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

February 28

34 mins

Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards

February 25

16 mins

John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

February 21

34 mins

Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive

February 18

16 mins

The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0

February 14

33 mins

“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary

February 11

23 mins

Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

February 7

26 mins

The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker

February 4

18 mins

Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

January 31

32 mins

Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires

January 28

12 mins

How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago

January 24

37 mins

The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

January 21

36 mins

Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview

January 17

49 mins

One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining

January 14

17 mins

Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy

January 10

32 mins

Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme

January 7

18 mins

Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

January 3

31 mins

Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director

Dec 31, 2024

24 mins

The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten

Dec 27, 2024

27 mins

Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

Dec 24, 2024

29 mins

Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”

Dec 20, 2024

20 mins

From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar

Dec 18, 2024

32 mins

From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction

Dec 18, 2024

26 mins

From the Archive: Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick

Dec 18, 2024

18 mins

From Critics at Large: After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?

Dec 17, 2024

48 mins

Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

Dec 13, 2024

49 mins

Audra McDonald on Stephen Sondheim, “Gypsy,” and Being Black on Broadway

Dec 9, 2024

20 mins

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans

Dec 6, 2024

28 mins

Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season

Dec 3, 2024

9 mins

A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving; Plus, Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane

Nov 29, 2024

24 mins

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights

Nov 26, 2024

40 mins

Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

Nov 22, 2024

25 mins

Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington

Nov 19, 2024

18 mins

The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

Nov 15, 2024

31 mins

Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth

Nov 12, 2024

21 mins

Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future

Nov 8, 2024

49 mins

Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now

Nov 4, 2024

22 mins

Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos

Nov 1, 2024

28 mins

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How Alpha Kappa Alpha Shaped Kamala Harris; Plus, Bill T. Jones

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Oct 29, 2024

35 mins

Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats

Oct 25, 2024

36 mins

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The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood

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Oct 22, 2024

21 mins

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With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story

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Oct 18, 2024

28 mins

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Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years

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Oct 16, 2024

46 mins

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The Astonishing Rise—and Uncertain Odds—of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign

E968·

Oct 11, 2024

26 mins

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Brian Jordan Alvarez on “English Teacher”

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Oct 8, 2024

18 mins

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Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term

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Oct 4, 2024

31 mins

E965

Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?

E965·

Oct 1, 2024

18 mins

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Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power

E964·

Sep 27, 2024

31 mins

E963

Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War

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Sep 24, 2024

21 mins

E962

Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?

E962·

Sep 20, 2024

29 mins

E961

Lake Street Dive Performs in the Studio

E961·

Sep 17, 2024

27 mins

E960

Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania

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Sep 13, 2024

23 mins

E959

A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

E959·

Sep 10, 2024

26 mins

E958

Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

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Sep 6, 2024

24 mins

E957

Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx”

E957·

Sep 3, 2024

24 mins

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The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America

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Aug 30, 2024

25 mins

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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Take on Finance

E955·

Aug 27, 2024

19 mins

E953

From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha?

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Aug 23, 2024

43 mins

E952

For Republicans, the End of Abortion Rights Was a Dangerous Victory

E952·

Aug 20, 2024

19 mins

E951

Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

E951·

Aug 16, 2024

31 mins

E950

R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone

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Aug 13, 2024

13 mins

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Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker

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Aug 8, 2024

36 mins

E948

Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 2)

E948·

Aug 6, 2024

24 mins

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Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 1)

E947·

Aug 2, 2024

26 mins

E946

Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics

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Jul 29, 2024

23 mins

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What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

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Jul 26, 2024

32 mins

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard

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Jul 23, 2024

17 mins

E943

The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning

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Jul 19, 2024

33 mins

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Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain.

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Jul 16, 2024

22 mins

E941

Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong

E941·

Jul 12, 2024

28 mins

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Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road

E940·

Jul 9, 2024

20 mins

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Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”

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Jul 5, 2024

30 mins

E938

The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions

E938·

Jul 2, 2024

31 mins

E937

John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel

E937·

Jun 28, 2024

19 mins

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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV

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Jun 25, 2024

16 mins

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures

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Jun 21, 2024

32 mins

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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies

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Jun 18, 2024

14 mins

E933

Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?

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Jun 14, 2024

36 mins

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After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names

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Jun 11, 2024

28 mins

E931

Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”

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Jun 7, 2024

22 mins

E930

The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

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Jun 4, 2024

19 mins

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Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”

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May 31, 2024

31 mins

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Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen

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May 28, 2024

23 mins

E924

Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic

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May 24, 2024

27 mins

E920

Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause

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May 21, 2024

20 mins

E919

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away

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May 17, 2024

29 mins

E915

How a Tech Executive Lobbied Lawmakers for the TikTok Ban

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May 14, 2024

17 mins

E914

Wired’s Katie Drummond: The TikTok Ban Is “Rooted in Hypocrisy”; Plus, Hannah Goldfield on Culinary TikTok

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May 10, 2024

33 mins

E909

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Could Swing the Election. Who Should Be More Worried—Biden or Trump?

E909·

May 7, 2024

29 mins

E908

Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University

E908·

May 3, 2024

49 mins

E902

Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, Who Refused to “Find” Votes for Donald Trump, Prepares for Another Election

E902·

Apr 30, 2024

15 mins

E901

Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts)

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Apr 26, 2024

35 mins

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Judi Dench on Bond and Shakespeare

E897·

Apr 23, 2024

21 mins

E896

Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young People

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Apr 19, 2024

30 mins

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Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out,” and Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”

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Apr 16, 2024

31 mins

E891

How a Republican and a Democrat Carved out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban

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Apr 12, 2024

19 mins

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The Film Critic Justin Chang on What to See in 2024

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Apr 8, 2024

13 mins

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The Attack on Black History, with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb

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Apr 5, 2024

36 mins

E881

Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, on Cultivating the Black Roots of Country Music

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Apr 2, 2024

15 mins

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Alicia Keys Returns to Her Roots with Her New Musical, “Hell’s Kitchen”

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Mar 29, 2024

34 mins

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Percival Everett and the Reinvention of Mark Twain’s Jim

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Mar 26, 2024

19 mins

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Trump’s Authoritarian Pronouncements Recall a Dark History

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Mar 22, 2024

29 mins

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March Madness 2024: College Basketball at a Crossroads

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Mar 19, 2024

15 mins

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Judith Butler Can’t “Take Credit or Blame” for Gender Furor

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Mar 15, 2024

34 mins

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In “Great Expectations,” Vinson Cunningham Watches Barack Obama’s Rise Up Close

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Mar 12, 2024

19 mins

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Bradley Cooper Contends for Best Actor in “Maestro”

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Mar 8, 2024

30 mins

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What Biden Is Thinking About the 2024 Election

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Mar 2, 2024

22 mins

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Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”

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Mar 1, 2024

27 mins

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Lily Gladstone on Holding the Door Open for More Native Actors in Hollywood. Plus, the Brody Awards

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Feb 27, 2024

34 mins

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Ty Cobb on Trump, Putin, and the Death of Alexey Navalny

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Feb 23, 2024

14 mins

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For Brontez Purnell, “Memoir Is Fiction—I Don’t Care What Anyone Says”

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Feb 20, 2024

18 mins

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“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Trump: “The Threat of Jail Time Sharpens the Mind”

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Feb 16, 2024

31 mins

E844

Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got”

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Feb 13, 2024

19 mins

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Can Memes Swing the 2024 Election? Plus, Michelle Zauner on “Crying in H Mart”

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Feb 9, 2024

30 mins

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Sheila Heti Talks with Parul Sehgal About “Alphabetical Diaries”

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Feb 6, 2024

15 mins

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Jonathan Blitzer on the Battle over Immigration; and Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick

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Feb 2, 2024

55 mins

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From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses

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Jan 31, 2024

14 mins

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For Journalists, “Gaza Is Unprecedented,” and Deadly

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Jan 29, 2024

23 mins

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The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is so “Fertile” for Comedy

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Jan 26, 2024

26 mins

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Pramila Jayapal: Biden’s “Coalition Has Fractured”

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Jan 23, 2024

30 mins

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E. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”

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Jan 19, 2024

20 mins

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Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle in “The Color Purple”

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Jan 16, 2024

28 mins

E820

How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.

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Jan 12, 2024

21 mins

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From “Talk Easy”: Sam Fragoso Interviews David Remnick

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Jan 10, 2024

1h 15m

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Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election

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Jan 8, 2024

33 mins

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How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target

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Jan 5, 2024

16 mins

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The Poet John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” Brings DeafBlind Experience to the Page

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Jan 2, 2024

26 mins

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Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis

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Dec 29, 2023

24 mins

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From Critics at Large: The Year of the Doll

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Dec 26, 2023

44 mins

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Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving

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Dec 22, 2023

49 mins

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Christmas in Tehran: Bringing the Holidays to Hostages

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Dec 19, 2023

28 mins

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A Harrowing Detention in Gaza

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Dec 15, 2023

21 mins

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Brandy Clark: Grammy-Nominated Album Is “Authentically Me”

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Dec 12, 2023

27 mins

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Liz Cheney: Donald Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted

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Dec 8, 2023

24 mins

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How Did Our Democracy Get so Fragile?

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Dec 5, 2023

26 mins

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Dolly Parton “Busted a Gut” Reaching for the High Notes on “Rockstar”

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Dec 1, 2023

24 mins

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“Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”

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Nov 24, 2023

49 mins

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Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 21, 2023

32 mins

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A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad

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Nov 17, 2023

17 mins

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Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire

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Nov 14, 2023

29 mins

E777

Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon?

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Nov 10, 2023

21 mins

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