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Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane
Episode 409
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge number of i…
6 years, 1 month ago
Hilton Als’s Homecoming and the March for Queer Liberation
Episode 408
In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The writer Hilton Als recalls the two days of “discord…
6 years, 2 months ago
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
Episode 407
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, …
6 years, 2 months ago
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
Episode 406
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past three months in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via Zoom), perf…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
Episode 405
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a policy tha…
6 years, 2 months ago
Getting White People to Talk About Racism
Episode 404
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are intrinsic to America. The anti-…
6 years, 2 months ago
Josephine Decker’s “Shirley”
Episode 403
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generation, and picked her 2018 film “Madeline’s Madeline”…
6 years, 2 months ago
Can Police Violence Be Curbed?
Episode 402
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff writer Jelani…
6 years, 2 months ago
Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself
Episode 401
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating for changes th…
6 years, 2 months ago
Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
Episode 400
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal l…
6 years, 3 months ago