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After the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy Was Fracked Up
Episode 241
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act injected almost nine hundred billion dollars into the U.S. economy to help the nation recover from the 200…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Financial Crash and the Climate Crisis
Episode 240
Ten years after the financial crash of 2008, the economy is humming along, with steady growth and rising employment. Yet that crisis continues to sha…
7 years, 4 months ago
Derek Smalls—Harry Shearer’s Character in “Spinal Tap”—Returns with His Solo Début
Episode 239
Harry Shearer is known for doing many characters, including Mr. Burns and others from “The Simpsons,” but the most famous is Derek Smalls, the saturn…
7 years, 4 months ago
From Mexico, the Reality of the Migrant Caravan
Episode 238
Jonathan Blitzer spent a week in Mexico with the so-called caravan—a group of about five thousand migrants, most of them from Honduras, who are makin…
7 years, 4 months ago
Janelle Monáe, from the Future to the Present
Episode 237
Janelle Monáe is an unlikely pop star. Her music is rooted in soul and R. & B., but also in pop, punk, and New Wave; her early releases were science-…
7 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Radcliffe Gets His Facts Straight, and Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Politics
Episode 236
The actor Daniel Radcliffe is on Broadway in a new play called “The Lifespan of a Fact”—perhaps the first-ever work of theatre in which a fact checke…
7 years, 4 months ago
Kelela Reinvents R. & B., and Sally Yates Gets Fired
Episode 235
When the acting Attorney General Sally Yates wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she was promptly sacked—“before it was fashionable to b…
7 years, 4 months ago
In the Midterms, White Supremacy Is Running for Office
Episode 234
While the big story going into the midterm elections has been the possibility of a “blue wave”—an upsurge of Democratic progressives, including a hig…
7 years, 4 months ago
Joan Baez Is Still Protesting
Episode 233
“You know, I think as I get older,” Joan Baez tells David Remnick, “someone will show me a photograph”—of the March on Washington, for example—“and I…
7 years, 5 months ago
Is Voting Safe?
Episode 232
For democracy to function, we have to trust and accept the results of elections. But that trust is increasingly difficult to maintain in a world wher…
7 years, 5 months ago