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Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After”
Episode 731
Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs and playing at li…
2 years, 7 months ago
Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Episode 730
Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulit…
2 years, 7 months ago
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
Episode 729
In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
Episode 728
“When people think of the crack epidemic, they think of crime,” the journalist Donovan X. Ramsey tells David Remnick. “But they don’t necessarily kno…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
Episode 727
No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working b…
2 years, 8 months ago
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
Episode 726
Nearly one in ten Americans owe significant medical debt, a burden that can become crippling as living costs and interest rates rise. Over the past d…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Episode 725
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a former Attorney General and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, has announced that he’s running for the Dem…
2 years, 8 months ago
Beyoncé Takes the Stage
Episode 724
This summer, the most anticipated tour (in close contest with Taylor Swift) is Beyoncé’s tour for her seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” which came…
2 years, 8 months ago
Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup, and Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution
Episode 723
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow last weekend, which killed more than a dozen Russian soldiers, fizzled as quickly as it began, but its repercussi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
Episode 722
In recent years, the attorney Jonathan Mitchell has become a crucial figure in the anti-abortion movement. Advising a Texas state senator, Mitchell d…
2 years, 8 months ago