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Love, War, and the Magical Lamb-Brain Sandwiches of Aleppo, Syria
Episode 136
When Adam Davidson was a reporter in Baghdad during the Iraq War, he started dating a fellow-reporter, Jen Banbury, of Salon. On a holiday break, the…
8 years, 9 months ago
Tina Brown on Vanity Fair, the Eighties, and Harvey Weinstein
Episode 135
Tina Brown is a legend in New York publishing. She was barely thirty years old when she was recruited from London to take over a foundering Vanity Fa…
8 years, 9 months ago
Voter Fraud: A Threat to Democracy, or a Myth?
Episode 134
Donald Trump memorably claimed, without a shred of evidence, that millions of votes cast by undocumented immigrants had given Hillary Clinton the pop…
8 years, 9 months ago
Jeffrey Toobin on “The Most Important Supreme Court Case in Decades”
Episode 133
Jeffrey Toobin tells David Remnick that, despite the mounting indictments against members of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign, Trump is almost ce…
8 years, 9 months ago
“Slut: The Play,” an Empowering Story for Young Women
Episode 132
In “Slut: The Play,” Katie Cappiello captures the trauma of sexual assault, based on the stories of teen-agers in her theatre company. (Hilton Als wr…
8 years, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 months ago