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What’s Driving Black Candidates to the Republican Party?
Episode 631
The Republican Party has recently attracted an almost unprecedented number of Black candidates to its fold—more than at any time since the Reconstruc…
3 years, 6 months ago
Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives
Episode 630
Neil Gaiman, one of the great fantasy writers of our time, first started writing his comic series “The Sandman” in the nineteen-eightiess. Decades la…
3 years, 6 months ago
Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future
Episode 629
Electric cars, compared to cars with internal-combustion engines, are nearly silent, which can present a danger to cyclists and pedestrians. So car c…
3 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth Kolbert on a Historic Climate Bill, Plus a Lesson from Kansas
Episode 628
The Inflation Reduction Act now before Congress is being celebrated as the most important piece of climate legislation in the history of this country…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
Episode 627
Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of the city of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in Chicago include “…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right
Episode 626
Last month, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim captured national headlines. The young girl was forced to travel out of state because of Ohio’s dr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Notes from a Warming World
Episode 625
Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly routine. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor and a pract…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jamie Raskin on the Facts of January 6th, and the Danger Ahead
Episode 624
Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, serves on Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. He spoke with Da…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober
Episode 623
Jason Isbell got into the music business early; he had a publishing deal when he was twenty-one. But he really came into his own as a songwriter arou…
3 years, 7 months ago
New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona
Episode 622
In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven” between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the east.…
3 years, 7 months ago