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John Kerry on the Battle Against Climate Change
Episode 519
With the world overheating, glaciers melting, and landscapes in flames, it’s difficult to think of a harder or more important job than John Kerry’s. …
5 years, 1 month ago
An Iranian Plot Grew in Brooklyn, and the Revelations about Pegasus
Episode 518
The indictment reads like a not-so-great spy novel: the operatives would kidnap the dissident from her home in Brooklyn, deliver her to the waterfron…
5 years, 1 month ago
Eric Adams Talks with David Remnick
Episode 517
The New York City mayoral primary, which culminated in a vote held in June, was full of surprises, including the introduction of ranked-choice voting…
5 years, 1 month ago
Helen Rosner’s Summer Drinks, Plus an Anxious Future in Afghanistan
Episode 516
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder of Afghanistan’s only all-girls boarding school, and she is anxiously waiting to see if the Taliban—which brut…
5 years, 1 month ago
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.…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 2 months ago