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Can We Finally End School Segregation?
Episode 501
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC…
4 years, 9 months ago
“Fire in Little Africa,” A Rap Album about a Historical Tragedy
Episode 500
The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall Street, or Lit…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Post-Pandemic Dress Code, Plus Hilton Als on Alice Neel
Episode 499
When a very long year of doing business from home—in sweatshirts and pajamas and slippers—is over, how much effort will people be willing to expend o…
4 years, 10 months ago
Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic
Episode 498
After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t over—and it may …
4 years, 10 months ago
Thomas McGuane Reads “Balloons”
Episode 497
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the …
4 years, 10 months ago
Three Women Who Changed the World
Episode 496
“The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to be in public life at…
4 years, 10 months ago
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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 months ago