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How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses
Episode 131
When OxyContin came on the market, in 1995, physicians were understandably wary of the addictive potential of a powerful new opioid. As Patrick Radde…
8 years, 4 months ago
Riz Ahmed Gets the Job Done
Episode 130
The British writer, activist, and rapper Riz Ahmed has had a very public life since leaving drama school to star in “The Road to Guantánamo.” He won …
8 years, 4 months ago
Chelsea Manning on Life After Prison
Episode 129
In 2010, the Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, sent nearly seven hundred and fifty thousand classified milita…
8 years, 4 months ago
My Mother’s Career at “Playboy,” and the Politics of N.F.L. Protest
Episode 128
The death last month of Hugh Hefner reopened a conversation about the “Playboy” founder and the world he created. Hefner said that his magazine’s pic…
8 years, 4 months ago
St. Vincent’s Seduction
Episode 127
Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in indie rock, playing alongside artists like Sufjan Stev…
8 years, 5 months ago
Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukelele Superstars; Jennifer Egan on Cops and Robbers
Episode 126
Patricia Marx is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, and Roz Chast is a celebrated cartoonist. Chast’s book “Can’t We Please Talk About Somet…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Trump Children Were Investigated for Fraud, But Avoided Indictment
Episode 125
The Trump SoHo was supposed to be a splash for the Trump Organization and for Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., who were leading the project. Instead, th…
8 years, 5 months ago
Karl Ove Knausgaard on Near-Death Experiences, Raising Kids, Puberty, Brain Surgery, and Turtles
Episode 124
A crime reporter and a business writer try to figure out how the government can charge a bank a sixteen-billion-dollar fine for wrongdoing yet fail t…
8 years, 5 months ago
David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
Episode 123
David Simon believes in the dignity of labor, “even when it’s undignified.” What “The Wire” (which he created) did for the drug trade in Baltimore, “…
8 years, 5 months ago
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again
Episode 122
Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently won her sixth consecutive Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role of Selina Meyer, the hapless Vice-President tur…
8 years, 5 months ago