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The Green New Deal, and an Unusual Night at the Orchestra
Episode 284
The Green New Deal is coming to the table during the one of the most divisive periods Washington has ever seen. Two advocates of the environmental pl…
6 years, 8 months ago
The N.R.A.’s Financial Mess
Episode 283
Last March, Wayne LaPierre sent a fund-raising letter to his members—an urgent plea for money. LaPierre described an attack on the Second Amendment t…
6 years, 8 months ago
The actor Christine Baranski on “The Good Fight,” and Kurt Vile on Songwriting
Episode 282
Christine Baranski was a successful theatre actor who would never stoop to do television in the old days. But when she got the pilot script for “Cybi…
6 years, 8 months ago
Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen Debate Russian and American Politics
Episode 281
Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen have, taken together, written more than a dozen books and a thousand articles. Keith Gessen is a founder of n+1, an inf…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Neurology of Bias, and a Visit with Thundercat
Episode 280
Most of us have biases and prejudices we don’t acknowledge—or aren’t even aware of. Admitting those biases is a baseline of political “wokeness.” But…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg on Coming Out: “I Realized I Couldn’t Go On Like That Forever”
Episode 279
During an exit interview with President Barack Obama in November, 2016, just weeks after the election, David Remnick asked who would be the leaders o…
6 years, 9 months ago
How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses
Episode 278
Patrick Radden Keefe has reported on the Sackler family and their control of Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Among the sources for his article…
6 years, 9 months ago
Has the Mueller Report Changed Anything?
Episode 277
The Mueller investigation has been a two-year obsession for nearly everyone who cares about politics in America. For one side, the special counsel wa…
6 years, 9 months ago
U.K. Edges Closer to the Cliff of a No-Deal Brexit
Episode 276
Since the minute that British citizens voted, in a 2016 referendum, to leave the European Union, confusion and disorganization has consumed the U.K. …
6 years, 9 months ago
Emilia Clarke on a Near-Death Experience Scarier than “Game of Thrones”
Episode 275
Emilia Clarke was an unknown young actor when she landed the part of Daenerys, of the House of Targaryen, on a show called “Game of Thrones.” After a…
6 years, 9 months ago