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Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
Episode 691
Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just…
3 years ago
Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights
Episode 690
Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view of gender as biology the key to their platforms. …
3 years ago
Introducing: “In The Dark”
Episode 689
“In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its first t…
3 years ago
Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson
Episode 688
When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting videos of themselves singing on YouTube and quickly…
3 years ago
The Russian Activist Maria Pevchikh on the Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia
Episode 687
Well before launching the horrifying campaign against Ukraine a year ago, Vladimir Putin had been undermining Russia as well: normalizing corruption …
3 years ago
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; and the 2023 Brody Awards
Episode 686
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in a genre all its own, and is an extremely unlikely favorite for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It’s a l…
3 years ago
The Pandemic at Three: Who Got it Right?
Episode 685
As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its fourth year, we can begin to gain some clarity on which countries, and which U.S. states, had the best outcom…
3 years ago
Angela Bassett on Playing Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda of Wakanda
Episode 684
It’s been almost three decades since Angela Bassett emerged in Hollywood as a “totem of empowered Black womanhood,” as Michael Schulman puts it—known…
3 years ago
A Year of the War in Ukraine
Episode 683
In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield. Yet an end to the conflict seems nowhere in sight…
3 years ago
Martin McDonagh Talks with Patrick Radden Keefe
Episode 682
Martin McDonagh burst onto the London theatre scene as a young playwright in the nineteen-nineties. At one point, he had four plays running simultane…
3 years, 1 month ago