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Harry Belafonte, the Pioneering Artist-Activist
Episode 705
We take it for granted that entertainers can—and probably should—advocate for the causes they believe in, political and otherwise. That wasn’t always…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens
Episode 704
Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—railing at “the élites” and propagating racist conspirac…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Bipartisan Effort to Rein in Presidential Military Power
Episode 703
Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President could now wage war against terrorism without prio…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jane Mayer on Justice Clarence Thomas, and the Music Critic Hanif Abdurraqib on Concert Merch
Episode 702
The cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas—the island-hopping yachting adventures underwritten by a right-…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness
Episode 701
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a Thanksgiving performance that’s respectful of Nati…
2 years, 8 months ago
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
Episode 700
A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gaining real traction in Washington. Lawmakers of bot…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum
Episode 699
Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for years to break through in the country-music scene, sh…
2 years, 9 months ago
Israel on the Brink: Understanding the Judicial Overhaul, and the Protests Against It
Episode 698
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed law changing the judiciary is described as a reform. To opponents, it’s a move to gut the independence o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Brooke Shields on the Sexualization of Girls in Hollywood
Episode 697
In the late nineteen-seventies and into the eighties, Brooke Shields was one of the most famous and most controversial people in America. At age elev…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks
Episode 696
In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a book called “The Soul of America,” warning of the …
2 years, 9 months ago