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Are U.F.O.s a National Security Threat?
Episode 495
In June, the director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense are expected to deliver a report about what the government knows on the s…
4 years, 8 months ago
A Surge at the Border, and the Children of Morelia
Episode 494
Nearly a century ago, during the Spanish Civil War, a group of parents put five hundred of their children on a boat and sent them across the ocean to…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jelani Cobb on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction and the Future of Police Reform
Episode 493
The murder of George Floyd galvanized the public and led to the largest protests in American history. Even Donald Trump said of the videos of Floyd’s…
4 years, 8 months ago
What Is Happening in the Internment Camps in Xinjiang
Episode 492
In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s government’s severe r…
4 years, 9 months ago
Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road
Episode 491
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New Artist. O…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Brody Awards, and Louis Menand on “The Free World”
Episode 490
Oscars, schmoscars! Richard Brody is a critic of wide tastes and eccentric enthusiasms. His list of the best films of the year rarely lines up with t…
4 years, 9 months ago
David Fincher on “Mank,” and Daniel Alarcón’s Favorite Children’s Books
Episode 489
David Fincher made his name in Hollywood as the director of movies that pushed people’s buttons—dark thrillers like “Fight Club,” “The Game,” “Seven,…
4 years, 9 months ago
Race and Taxes, and Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill
Episode 488
The investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a meeting attended by conservative power brokers including Grover Norquist, re…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Complex Story of Being Trans in Africa, and Derek DelGaudio on Deception
Episode 487
Our producer talks with the South African scholar Dr. B Camminga, whose essay “Disregard and Danger” deconstructs the viewpoints of so-called TERFs—t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate?
Episode 486
No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more difficult in …
4 years, 9 months ago