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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions
Episode 419
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing civil unres…
6 years ago
Black Italians Fight to Be Italian
Episode 418
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law since 1868, wi…
6 years, 1 month ago
Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools
Episode 417
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to rebound. Emily …
6 years, 1 month ago
Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
Episode 416
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was cancelled, even outdoor…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
Episode 415
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on b…
6 years, 1 month ago
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
Episode 414
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the…
6 years, 1 month ago
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
Episode 413
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assau…
6 years, 1 month ago
The State of the Biden Campaign
Episode 412
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now he faces …
6 years, 1 month ago
Laura Marling, a Briton in Los Angeles
Episode 411
The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but delicate folk music, starting when she was only ei…
6 years, 1 month ago
Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson
Episode 410
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly star-studded. This program features interviews wi…
6 years, 1 month ago