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What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?
Episode 366
Mass incarceration is now widely regarded as a prejudiced and deeply harmful set of policies. Bipartisan support exists for some degree of criminal-j…
5 years, 11 months ago
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Episode 364
The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world; although the country makes up about five per cent of the global population, it holds nea…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran
Episode 363
Next week’s debate, in Des Moines, was likely going to focus on health care and other domestic issues, but the agenda will probably be dominated by t…
6 years ago
Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick
Episode 362
David Remnick has appeared as the guest of Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” a number of times over the years, talking about Russia, Muhammad Ali, and other…
6 years ago
Dexter Filkins on the Air Strike that Killed Qassem Suleimani
Episode 361
Qassem Suleimani was Iran’s most powerful military and intelligence leader, and his killing, in a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Thursday night, will …
6 years ago
Patty Marx Conducts an Orchestra
Episode 360
Patricia Marx is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and has contributed pieces for thirty years. Still, it might not be too late to try out a new care…
6 years ago
Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads
Episode 359
In December of 2015, a video appeared on the Internet that stunned surfers worldwide. Titled “Kelly’s Wave,” it showed Kelly Slater—arguably the best…
6 years ago
The Hyperpartisan State
Episode 358
North Carolina is a relatively purple state, where voting between the two major parties tends to be close. That might suggest a place of common groun…
6 years ago
Peter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones”
Episode 357
In the classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a romantic with an exceptionally large and ugly nose pines after an unattainable woman. “As a person who lo…
6 years ago
Helen Rosner Takes the Office-Fridge Challenge
Episode 356
Helen Rosner is known for her high degree of resourcefulness in the kitchen: she once broke the Internet with an article about the ingenious use of a…
6 years ago