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Episode 41: Hillary Makes History, and Archery Makes a Comeback
Episode 44
In this episode, Andy Borowitz explains how the D.N.C. is like a Phil Collins music video from the eighties, and Patricia Marx practices archery at h…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 40: Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter and a Poet Fighting Cancer
Episode 43
In this episode, the ghostwriter behind “The Art of the Deal” tells all, and Andy Borowitz reviews highlights of the Republican National Convention.
9 years, 5 months ago
Special Preview: Trump’s Remorseful Ghostwriter
Episode 42
Tony Schwartz spent more than a year with Trump back in 1986, ghostwriting his memoir. He hasn’t ever talked publicly about the experience of working…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 39: The Gawker Sex-Tape Blowup, and George Saunders on Trump
Episode 41
The founder of Gawker on the “karmic justice” of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit; George Saunders on what makes Trump supporters tick; and Parker Posey on a c…
9 years, 5 months ago
Episode 38: The Wisdom of John McPhee, and the Agony of an iPod Lockout
Episode 40
In this episode, John McPhee reflects on a lifetime of writing; we explore the future of Brexit; and a reporter nearly loses everything after forgett…
9 years, 6 months ago
Special Preview: George Saunders on the Trump Campaign
Episode 39
Fiction writer George Saunders takes to the Trump campaign trail, and a new understanding of America emerges.
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 37: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe
Episode 38
In this episode, Patrick Radden Keefe on the drug dealers who may help bring El Chapo to justice, and David Remnick talks to Black Lives Matter co-fo…
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 36: Fear and the NRA, and a Hymn for Orlando
Episode 37
In this episode, a gun blogger critiques the N.R.A., and a Presbyterian minister rewrites old hymns for new crises.
9 years, 6 months ago
Special Preview: How the N.R.A. Uses Fear to Sell Guns
Episode 36
A prominent gun blogger and lifelong NRA member explains how the organization uses fear to get its way.
9 years, 6 months ago
Episode 35: Samantha Bee’s Fury, and Staffing the Supreme Court
Episode 35
Could Citizens United be overturned? Jeffrey Toobin and Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, discuss what a Supreme Court dominated by Democratic…
9 years, 6 months ago