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A New Civil War in America?
Episode 565
When rioters, encouraged by the President, stormed the Capitol, one year ago, to overturn the results of the election, the idea that such a thing cou…
4 years ago
The Power of Police Unions
Episode 564
The repeal of Section 50-A of the New York State Civil Rights Law was no technical change. Passed in the wake of the George Floyd protests, it was a …
4 years ago
Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration
Episode 563
One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President. Gorman was just twenty-two years old, and it was…
4 years ago
For a French Burglar, Stealing Masterpieces Is Easier Than Selling Them
Episode 562
Vjeran Tomic has been stealing since he was a small child, when he used a ladder to break into a library in his home town, in Bosnia. After moving to…
4 years ago
Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, Goes Global
Episode 561
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. Trained as an operatic soprano at the prestigious Oberlin C…
4 years ago
When Snow Came to San Juan
Episode 560
For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. Children in San Juan rode a sled and had a giant …
4 years ago
Is the Gift of Tuition Enough?
Episode 559
Élite schools are trying hard to recruit students of color and students who are less well-off financially; Yale University, as one example, now cover…
4 years, 1 month ago
Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair
Episode 558
The eldest millennials turned forty this year, and the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele comments on a sense of despair he finds in his generation, having …
4 years, 1 month ago
Paul Thomas Anderson, Poet Laureate of the San Fernando Valley
Episode 557
Paul Thomas Anderson first made a splash in Hollywood with his film “Boogie Nights,” a portrait of the porn industry that burgeoned in the San Fernan…
4 years, 1 month ago
Life After Prison
Episode 556
As a kid, Jonathan was good at soccer and making friends. But by the age of eighteen, he was a drug dealer facing his first serious conviction. For h…
4 years, 1 month ago