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The Golden Arches in Black America
Episode 515
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.…
4 years, 6 months ago
Gillian Flynn, Akhil Sharma, and Alison Bechdel on Their Most Memorable Jobs
Episode 514
The U.S. economy seems to be showing real signs of life, and lots of people are finally returning to the labor force—eight hundred and fifty thousand…
4 years, 6 months ago
Bon Iver Live at the New Yorker Festival
Episode 513
In the winter of 2007, a songwriter by the name of Justin Vernon returned to the Wisconsin woods, not far from where he grew up. Just a few months la…
4 years, 6 months ago
Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
Episode 512
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…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino Investigate Britney Spears’s Conservatorship
Episode 511
Britney Spears has been one of the world’s most prominent pop stars since her début, in the late nineteen-nineties. But, since 2008, she’s been under…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Family Divided Over the COVID-19 Vaccine
Episode 510
Across the country, COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available for teen-agers. But most states still require parental consent for minors to receive the…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa
Episode 509
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a city. Buoyed …
4 years, 6 months ago
Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics
Episode 508
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention, Plus, the Fallout from Gamestop
Episode 507
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisis over the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks with the R…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights”
Episode 506
It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people could see it i…
4 years, 7 months ago