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Michael Schulman on the Writers’ Strike, and Samantha Irby with Doreen St. Félix
Episode 709
The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike that lasted a hundred days and cost the city of L…
3 years, 3 months ago
Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
Episode 708
A troubling question looms over the Kriegskinder, Germans who were children during the Second World War: Was my father a mass murderer? These innocen…
3 years, 3 months ago
Have State Legislatures Gone Rogue? And Joshua Yaffa on Evan Gershkovich
Episode 707
Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headlines across the country. Their offense wasn’t corr…
3 years, 3 months ago
King Charles III Takes the Throne
Episode 706
On May 6th, King Charles will become the oldest person to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom. He is a bit of an odd duck to be the king, Rebecca…
3 years, 3 months ago
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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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-…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 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…
3 years, 4 months ago