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Masha Gessen on Trump and Russia, and a Former Border Agent on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Episode 164
Masha Gessen was born in the Soviet Union and has written extensively about Russian politics. She talks with David Remnick about the similarities bet…
7 years, 10 months ago
Director Ava DuVernay on “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time”
Episode 163
No film adaptation of “A Wrinkle In Time,” Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, and often banned, children’s book, published in 1962, has ever made it to Ame…
7 years, 10 months ago
A Reckoning at Facebook
Episode 162
We now know that Russian operatives exploited Facebook and other social media to sow division and undermine the election of 2016, and special counsel…
7 years, 10 months ago
Ian Frazier Among the Drone Racers
Episode 161
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, recently travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, …
7 years, 11 months ago
Extremists on the Ballot, and America’s Endless War in Afghanistan
Episode 160
The 2016 Presidential primaries were a rebuke to moderates in both parties. Bernie Sanders, a sometime Democratic Socialist, built a grassroots movem…
7 years, 11 months ago
Ryan Zinke’s Deregulation Quest, and the Future of Meatless Burgers
Episode 159
As a congressman from Montana, Ryan Zinke was considered a moderate—he resisted radical suggestions, for example, to turn over federal land to the st…
7 years, 11 months ago
Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo, and a Night at Richard Nixon’s
Episode 158
Laura Kipnis is a professor at Northwestern University and a provocative feminist critic. Her book “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campu…
7 years, 11 months ago
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Discovering America
Episode 157
The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had commercial and critical success: Her best-seller “Americanah” won a National Book Critics Circle Award …
7 years, 11 months ago
Nathan Lane, Getting Serious, Plays Roy Cohn
Episode 156
Nathan Lane may be best known for supplying the voice of the fun-loving meerkat in “The Lion King,” but in recent years he’s turned his focus to more…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Episode 155
The Ku Klux Klan was originally focused on maintaining the old racial order in the postwar South, chiefly through the violent suppression of African-…
7 years, 11 months ago