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The Hot Fashion Trends in Silicon Valley, and the Top Chef Niki Nakayama
Episode 274
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being a place where young geniuses are too busy disrupting the world to buy clothes; jeans and a hoodie generally…
6 years, 9 months ago
Getting Detained by ICE—on Purpose
Episode 273
In 2012, two young activists from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance went on an undercover mission to infiltrate the Broward Transitional Center, …
6 years, 10 months ago
American Exiles in East Africa (Part 2)
Episode 272
Pete O’Neal was a street hustler and small-time pimp who gave up crime to fight oppression, founding the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Pa…
6 years, 10 months ago
American Exiles in East Africa
Episode 271
Pete O’Neal was a street hustler and small-time pimp who gave up crime to struggle against oppression, founding the Kansas City chapter of the Black …
6 years, 10 months ago
Jane Mayer on the Revolving Door Between Fox News and the White House
Episode 270
Donald Trump has made no secret of his great admiration for Fox News -- which he praises by tweet nearly constantly -- and his disdain for other, “fa…
6 years, 10 months ago
A Moderate Republican Wants to Primary Donald Trump in 2020
Episode 269
The former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is launching what looks like a political suicide mission. He recently announced an exploratory committee …
6 years, 10 months ago
A Writer Solves a Mystery, and Ruth E. Carter Steps into the Spotlight
Episode 268
Committed during a period filled with bombings, killings, and disappearances, the murder of Jean McConville remains one of the most infamous unsolved…
6 years, 10 months ago
What Are We Talking About When We Talk about Socialism?
Episode 267
With the election to the House of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, following up on the surprising Presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders,…
6 years, 10 months ago
Teju Cole on Blackface and Valeria Luiselli on the Border Crisis
Episode 266
When depictions of Virginia politicians in blackface surfaced this month, the New Yorker contributor Teju Cole was unsurprised. “A white man of a cer…
6 years, 11 months ago
To Stop the Shooting, Lupe Cruz Gets Between the People with the Guns
Episode 265
Conversations about gun reform are often galvanized by catastrophic mass shootings. But gun violence mostly unfolds as a matter of awful routine: dom…
6 years, 11 months ago