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Back to SearchJohn Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
Episode 937
Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who – with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the zip code of Bra…
1 year, 10 months ago
Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV
Episode 936
Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum—who received a Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV critic…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
Episode 935
Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography i…
1 year, 11 months ago
Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
Episode 934
Paul Scheer is a noted actor and comedian, and the author of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections of Trauma.” Off the screen, his true obsession is b…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
Episode 933
On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls and, according to all predictions, ous…
1 year, 11 months ago
After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
Episode 932
For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 19…
1 year, 11 months ago
Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
Episode 931
When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black D…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Episode 930
In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of…
1 year, 11 months ago
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
Episode 929
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only …
1 year, 11 months ago
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
Episode 925
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and raunchy best friends who were the glue in each other…
1 year, 11 months ago