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Atul Gawande on Taming the Coronavirus
Episode 455
Can a vaccine be distributed fairly? What will be the impact if a large number of people don’t take it—as they say they won’t? Atul Gawande, a New Yo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
Episode 454
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her recent album, …
5 years, 1 month ago
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
Episode 453
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past year in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via Zoom), performing o…
5 years, 1 month ago
A Novel About a Secret Family, and Adam Gopnik on Being Old
Episode 452
Sanaë Lemoine’s début novel, “The Margot Affair,” is about a seventeen-year-old high-school student whose father, a high-ranking official, does not a…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue
Episode 451
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a significant…
5 years, 1 month ago
Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
Episode 450
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a conversation …
5 years, 2 months ago
Jane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game
Episode 449
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in Washington, who have…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now
Episode 448
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments that came into e…
5 years, 2 months ago
A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?
Episode 447
No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick speaks abo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Trump in Review
Episode 446
The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his core promises remain unfulfilled, he managed to resh…
5 years, 2 months ago