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John Thompson vs. American Justice
Episode 174
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that it was because he had sold drugs to an undercover cop. When he realized they we…
7 years, 9 months ago
The American Bombs Falling on Yemen
Episode 173
Abdulqader Hilal Al-Dabab was the mayor of Sana’a, a politician with a long record of mediating disputes in a notoriously fractious and dangerous cou…
7 years, 9 months ago
Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.
Episode 172
As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency fourteen times, claiming that the Obama Administration had…
7 years, 9 months ago
A Homemade Museum in a Refugee Camp
Episode 171
Tens of thousands of refugees from the civil war in Yemen have fled across the narrow Mandeb Strait to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. Nicolas Niarc…
7 years, 9 months ago
Armando Iannucci on “The Death of Stalin”
Episode 170
As the fourth season of “Veep” came to an end, director Armando Iannucci turned from chronicling the foibles of cynical western democracy to somethin…
7 years, 9 months ago
In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
Episode 169
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer. He is believed to be a propaganda writer for the government who began to write, secretly, fiction and…
7 years, 10 months ago
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Dossier
Episode 168
The dossier—a secret report alleging various corrupt dealings between Donald Trump, his campaign, and the government of Russia, made public after the…
7 years, 10 months ago
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Episode 167
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and colle…
7 years, 10 months ago
Jennifer Lawrence on “Red Sparrow” and Times Up
Episode 166
Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for her first Oscar at twenty, and since then she has balanced the biggest of big-budget franchises, like the “Hunger…
7 years, 10 months ago
The New Yorker presents “The Brodies”
Episode 165
Richard Brody hosts an alternative Oscars show — “The Brodies” — and recommends some of his favorite films from the past year, and the writer Chang-…
7 years, 10 months ago