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“We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet from 2022-04-19T03:00
The Internet can be a scary place in real life, and far more so in Jane Schoenbrun’s film “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” which premièred at the Sundance Film Festival last year and...
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Jennifer Egan on the Literary Pleasures of the Concept Album from 2022-04-12T03:00
Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” one of the most anticipated books of the year, has just been published. It is related—not a sequel exactly, but something like a sibling—to he...
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Anita Hill and Jane Mayer on Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the State of the Supreme Court from 2022-04-08T16:00
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been voted in as a Supreme Court Justice—the first Black woman to serve in that role. But, to reach this milestone, Jackson has faced enormous hurdles at every tu...
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The Missing Boater from 2022-04-05T06:00
Dick Conant spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character. On land, he worked a variety of jobs and was often homeless, but paddling on a river, he wa...
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Investigating January 6th from 2022-04-01T16:00
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attempt to overturn the Presidential election, the congressional committee investigating January 6...
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Connor Ratliff Talks with Sarah Larson, Plus Chef Bryant Terry from 2022-03-29T03:00
An aspiring actor named Connor Ratliff thought he had it made when he got a small part on the 2001 miniseries “Band of Brothers,” in an episode directed by Hollywood legend Tom Hanks. The ...
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Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War from 2022-03-25T16:00
A wave of book bannings sweeping the country, along with conservative fury over titles like “Antiracist Baby,” seems like a backlash against the heightened racial consciousness of the post...
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Returning to the Office . . . While Black from 2022-03-22T06:00
“Coming back to work is partially about surveillance and micromanagement,” Keisha, a podcasting executive, says. “Everybody feels it, but people of color feel it in a differen...
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Radio Ukraine from 2022-03-18T16:00
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it t...
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Jane Campion on “The Power of the Dog” from 2022-03-15T03:00
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” opens like a classic Western: cattle are herded across the sweeping plains of Montana, with imposing mountains in the distance. But the plot of the fi...
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Stephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine from 2022-03-11T17:54
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire ...
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Pauline Kael on “The Godfather” from 2022-03-08T03:00
AsThe New Yorker’sfilm critic from 1968 to around 1991, the influential Pauline Kael gave voice to her visceral reactions: she wrote as a moviegoer, not ...
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Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine from 2022-03-04T16:00
Joshua Yaffais a Moscow correspondent forThe New Yorker, but he has been t...
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Sheryl Lee Ralph on Confronting Hollywood from 2022-03-01T06:00
Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of “Dreamgirls,” and was in “Sister Act 2” alongside Laury...
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How Black Creators Are Changing Hollywood from 2022-02-25T16:00
In the past few years, it seems a floodgate has opened, releasing a deluge of tremendously successful media that centers the Black experience. “Get Out,” “Black Panther,” and HBO’s “Watchm...
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How Should President Biden Respond to Putin’s War on Ukraine? from 2022-02-24T18:00
Since last summer, Russian troops have been amassing on the Ukrainian border, and, in recent weeks, President Vladimir Putin warned that he intended a military takeover of Ukraine. This we...
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Peter Dinklage on “Cyrano” from 2022-02-22T03:00
Joe Wright’s film “Cyrano,” nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, was based on Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name. Peter Dinklage starred in both, as the...
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Nicholas Britell on the Art of the Film Score from 2022-02-18T16:00
Nicholas Britell has emerged as one of the most in-demand film composers working today, creating original music for projects that hew to no style or model. He wrote the infuriatingly catch...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Path Forward for the Left from 2022-02-14T06:00
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prominent progressives in Washington. Her political ascent began with her shocking 2018 defeat of a longtime incumbent in a New York district th...
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On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech from 2022-02-11T16:00
Every few weeks, it seems, another example of so-called cancel culture is dominating the headlines and trending on social-media platforms. The refrain “you can’t say anything these days” h...
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David Remnick Talks with Lee Child, the Creator of Jack Reacher from 2022-02-08T03:00
Lee Child didn’t start writing novels until he lost a prestigious job producing TV in England during a shakeup that he attributes to Rupert Murdoch. He tried his hand at writing a thriller...
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Black Thought Takes the Stage from 2022-02-04T16:00
Tariq Trotter, best known in music as Black Thought, the emcee of the Roots, is regarded by many hip-hop fans as one of the best freestyle rappers ever. His work changed shape when the Roo...
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Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper on the Enduring Appeal of Noir from 2022-02-01T03:00
Guillermo del Toro has been called the leading fantasy filmmaker of this century. His movies include “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy,” and “The Shape of Water,” whichwon four Acad...
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Russia’s Intentions in Ukraine—and America from 2022-01-28T16:00
“They push buttons,” says Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale. “What button of ours are they pushing here? What are they trying to get us to do?” Vladimir Putin is ...
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The Trials of a Whistle-blower from 2022-01-25T03:00
As a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center—a Georgia facility run by LaSalle Corrections, a private company operating an immigration-detention contract with ICE—Dawn Wooten became awa...
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The Olympic Games Return to China, in a Changed World from 2022-01-21T16:00
Much has changed since China last hosted the Olympics, during the 2008 Summer Games. Those Games were widely seen as greatly improving China’s international reputation. But the 2022 Winter...
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Hilton Als and Emma Cline on the Late Joan Didion from 2022-01-18T03:00
Joan Didion tried and failed, she said, “to think”; that is, to write about abstractions and symbols, and make grand arguments in the manner of the New York intellectuals of her time. Inst...
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The Biden Presidency, Year One from 2022-01-14T16:00
President Biden took the oath of office in a moment of deep crisis—the pandemic in full swing and just weeks after an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election by violence. Merely a r...
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Nnedi Okorafor on Sci-Fi Through an African Lens from 2022-01-11T03:00
Nnedi Okorafor, a recipient of the prestigious Hugo Award, is a prolific writer of science-fiction and fantasy novels for adults and young adults. She spoke withListen
A New Civil War in America? from 2022-01-07T16:00
When rioters, encouraged by the President, stormed the Capitol, one year ago, to overturn the results of the election, the idea that such a thing could play out in America was stunning. Bu...
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The Power of Police Unions from 2022-01-04T03:00
The repeal of Section 50-A of the New York State Civil Rights Law was no technical change. Passed in the wake of the George Floyd protests, it was a big victory for police-reform activists...
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Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration from 2021-12-31T06:00
One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President. Gorman was just twenty-two years old, and it was just two weeks after Trump supporters ...
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For a French Burglar, Stealing Masterpieces Is Easier Than Selling Them from 2021-12-28T03:00
Vjeran Tomic has been stealing since he was a small child, when he used a ladder to break into a library in his home town, in Bosnia. After moving to Paris, he graduated to lucrative apart...
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Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, Goes Global from 2021-12-24T06:00
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. Trained as an operatic soprano at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory, Giddens fell almost by cha...
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When Snow Came to San Juan from 2021-12-21T03:00
For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. Children in San Juan rode a sled and had a giant snowball fight in the tropical weather....
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Is the Gift of Tuition Enough? from 2021-12-17T10:00
Élite schools are trying hard to recruit students of color and students who are less well-off financially; Yale University, as one example, now covers full tuition for families making less...
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Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair from 2021-12-14T03:00
The eldest millennials turned forty this year, and the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele
Paul Thomas Anderson, Poet Laureate of the San Fernando Valley from 2021-12-10T10:30
Paul Thomas Anderson first made a splash in Hollywood with his film “Boogie Nights,” a portrait of the porn industry that burgeoned in the San Fernando Valley, the much-mocked suburbs of L...
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Life After Prison from 2021-12-07T03:00
As a kid, Jonathan was good at soccer and making friends. But by the age of eighteen, he was a drug dealer facing his first serious conviction. For his third conviction, although the charg...
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Mass Incarceration, Then and Now from 2021-12-03T06:00
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow,” in 2010, most people didn’t use the term “mass...
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Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande from 2021-11-30T03:00
Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” The album was inspired in part by Susanna Kaysen’s best-sellin...
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Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music from 2021-11-26T06:00
At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked withKelefa Sannehabout Grohl’s new book, “...
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Mexican Abortion Activists Mobilize to Aid Texans from 2021-11-23T03:00
Mexico is a deeply Catholic nation where abortion was, for a long time, criminalized in many states; just a few years ago Coahuilla, near the U.S. border, imposed jail time on women who ha...
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If Roe v. Wade Goes, What Next? from 2021-11-19T16:00
The Supreme Court, with a six-to-three majority of conservative justices, is hearing critical cases on abortion rights. If it approves restrictive state laws, large swaths of the country m...
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The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis from 2021-11-16T03:00
After storms and other climate disasters, legions of workers appear overnight to cover blown-out buildings with construction tarps, rip out ruined walls and floors, and start putting citie...
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Anna Deavere Smith Retells Rodney King’s Story in Theatre from 2021-11-12T06:00
“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” premièred nearly thirty years ago, but it’s one of the most current and important plays on Broadway right now. Anna Deavere Smith pioneered a form now known a...
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Rachel Held Evans and Her Legacy from 2021-11-09T03:00
Growing up, Rachel Held Evans was a fiercely enthusiastic evangelizer for her faith, the kind of kid who relished the chance to sit next to an atheist. But when she experienced doubt, that...
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Will the Office Survive the Pandemic? from 2021-11-05T06:00
Cal Newport, the author of “A World without Email” and other books, has been writing about how the shutdown ha...
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Wole Soyinka on His New Satire of Corruption and Fundamentalism from 2021-11-02T03:00
Wole Soyinka is a giant of world literature. A Nobel laureate, he’s written more than two dozen plays, a vast amount of poetry, several memoirs, and countless essays and short stories—but,...
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The Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook from 2021-10-29T06:00
The roughly ten thousand company documents that make up the Facebook Papers show a company in turmoil—and one that prioritizes its economic interests over known harms to public interest. A...
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Jane Goodall Talks with Andy Borowitz from 2021-10-26T03:00
Jane Goodall is as revered a figure as modern science has to offer, though she prefers to call herself a naturalist rather than a scientist. Goodall learned a great deal about being human ...
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How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over from 2021-10-22T16:00
In the summer, Shabana Basij-Rasikhcame o...
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Jon Stewart: “That’s Not Cancel Culture” from 2021-10-19T03:00
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” defined an era. For more than sixteen years, Stewart and his many correspondents skewered American politics. At theListen
Daniel Craig Takes Off the Tux from 2021-10-15T16:00
Daniel Craig made his career as an actor in the theatre and in British indie films. When he showed up in Hollywood, it was usually in smaller roles, often as a villain. So, in 2005, when C...
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Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden from 2021-10-12T20:00
Kara Walker is one of our most influential living artists. Walker won a MacArthur Fellowship (the “genius” grant) before she turned thirty, and became well known for her silhouettes, works...
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An Interview with Merrick Garland, and Susan Orlean on Animals from 2021-10-08T16:00
At The New Yorker Festival, the renowned investigative journalist Jane Mayer asked Attorney General Merrick Garland about the prosecution of January 6th insurrectionists, the threat of dom...
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Broadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three from 2021-10-05T03:00
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this unusual season, Broadway is featuring atypical wo...
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Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads” from 2021-10-01T16:00
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, just as the America of that moment seeme...
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Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage? from 2021-09-28T06:00
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. With the United Nations climate meeting ...
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Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism from 2021-09-24T16:00
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate what had happened. This seem...
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Joaquin Castro: “Americans Don’t Know Who Latinos Are” from 2021-09-21T12:40
On Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a preliminary report on the long-standing underrepresentation of Latinos in the media. While most people consider Hollywood a r...
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Wes Anderson and Jeffrey Wright on “The French Dispatch” from 2021-09-17T16:03
“I wanted to do a French movie, and I had this idea of wanting to do aNew Yorkermovie,” Wes Anderson explains. “Somehow, I also wanted to do one of those...
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Bonus: “The French Dispatch” Reads The New Yorker from 2021-09-17T16:00
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The French Dispatch,” is about a magazine, and it was inspired by Anderson’s long-standing love ofThe New Yorker.In this specia...
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The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law from 2021-09-14T03:00
The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional protections on reproductive rights. Yet the Supreme Court is in no rush to review it. The la...
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Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban from 2021-09-10T16:00
Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorialized by those who survive them. And the...
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The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income? from 2021-09-07T03:00
David Remnick talks with Senator Michael Bennet, of Colorado, who campaigned for the Presidency in 2020 advocating for the child tax credit, which is now a centerpiece of the Democratic ag...
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Riz Ahmed on “Mogul Mowgli” from 2021-09-03T16:00
As a rapper, Riz Ahmed has released critically acclaimed albums, and he was featured on the chart-topping “Hamilton Mixtape.” At the same time, he was becoming a leading man in the movies,...
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Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction from 2021-08-27T16:00
One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, wi...
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The Joy of Beach Reads from 2021-08-27T16:00
Our guest host, Vinson Cunningham, looks at the joys of the beach read, hitting Brighton Beach on a hot, muggy day to peer over readers’ shoulders. He relates his own fortuitous encounter ...
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Home Cooking with Jacques Pepin and Klancy Miller from 2021-08-24T03:00
For generations of cooks, Jacques Pépin has been the master. Early in his career he cooked for eminences like Charles DeGaulle, and was offered a job at the White House. But after a seriou...
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Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan from 2021-08-20T16:00
Dexter Filkins covered the American invasion of Afghanistan when he was a reporter for the New...
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Liesl Tommy, Director of “Respect” from 2021-08-13T16:00
Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, the greatest voice of her generation, an eighteen-time Grammy Award winner whose career spanned five decades. She was also a famously private person,...
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Atul Gawande on the COVID-19 Resurgence from 2021-08-06T16:00
For a few brief moments this summer, in places where the vaccination rate was high, we could imagine life after COVID-19: restaurants and theatres were filling up, gatherings of all kinds ...
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Jack Antonoff on Growing up Jersey from 2021-08-03T03:00
Jack Antonoff has had a busy pandemic. Sought out by Taylor Swift as a producer, he ultimately made two records for her—one of which, “Folklore,” won the Grammy for Album of the Year. He a...
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John Kerry on the Battle Against Climate Change from 2021-07-30T16:00
With the world overheating, glaciers melting, and landscapes in flames, it’s difficult to think of a harder or more important job than John Kerry’s. The former senator and Secretary of Sta...
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An Iranian Plot Grew in Brooklyn, and the Revelations about Pegasus from 2021-07-27T03:00
The indictment reads like a not-so-great spy novel: the operatives would kidnap the dissident from her home in Brooklyn, deliver her to the waterfront to meet a speedboat, bring her by sea...
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Eric Adams Talks with David Remnick from 2021-07-23T16:00
The New York City mayoral primary, which culminated in a vote held in June, was full of surprises, including the introduction of ranked-choice voting to a confused electorate, and the pres...
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Helen Rosner’s Summer Drinks, Plus an Anxious Future in Afghanistan from 2021-07-20T03:00
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder ofAfghanistan’s only all-girls boarding school, and she is anxiously waiting to see if the Taliban—which brutally opposes the education ...
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The Golden Arches in Black America from 2021-07-16T16:00
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.”Chatelain lo...
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Gillian Flynn, Akhil Sharma, and Alison Bechdel on Their Most Memorable Jobs from 2021-07-13T03:00
The U.S. economy seems to be showing real signs of life, and lots of people are finally returning to the labor force—eight hundred and fifty thousand in the month of June alone. At the sam...
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Janet Mock Finds Her Voice from 2021-07-06T03:00
Janet Mock first heard the word “m?h?,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just mov...
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Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino Investigate Britney Spears’s Conservatorship from 2021-07-03T06:00
Britney Spears has been one of the world’s most prominent pop stars since her début, in the late nineteen-nineties. But, since 2008, she’s been under a court-ordered conservatorship—a form...
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A Family Divided Over the COVID-19 Vaccine from 2021-06-25T16:00
Across the country, COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available for teen-agers. But most states still require parental consent for minors to receive the...
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The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa from 2021-06-22T03:00
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a city. Buoyed by money from Oklahoma’s oil boom, it w...
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Naftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics from 2021-06-18T16:00
In 2013, David Remnick published a profileof Naftali Bennett. He wrote that Bennet...
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A Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention, Plus, the Fallout from Gamestop from 2021-06-14T03:00
The largest Protestant denomination in America is in crisisover the group’s reluctance to acknowledge systemic racism; our reporter talks with the Reverend Dwight McKissic, wh...
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Jon M. Chu on “In the Heights” from 2021-06-11T16:00
It’s easy to see why the director Jon M. Chu was adamant that the release of “In the Heights” wait until this summer, when more people could see it in theatres: it’s big, it’s colorful, th...
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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello from 2021-06-08T03:00
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax have both been playing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major for over forty years. But it took a global pandemic for the two of them to fully understand it. “Th...
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A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT-UP from 2021-06-04T16:00
The staff writer Patricia Marx checks out the new vaccinated sections at New York’s Major League Baseball parks. The author and activist Sarah Schulman talks with David Remnick about her n...
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Looking Back at the Year of Protest Since the Death of George Floyd from 2021-06-01T03:00
We look back on the year since the murder of George Floyd galvanized the nation. David Remnick talks withVanita Gupta, the No. 3 official in the Justice Department, who is cha...
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Spike Lee on the Knicks’ Resurgence from 2021-05-28T16:00
Spike Lee is one of the most passionate and committed fans of the New York Knicks—not to mention one of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time. Underdogs for many years, the Knicks are...
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Can We Finally End School Segregation? from 2021-05-21T16:00
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiet...
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“Fire in Little Africa,” A Rap Album about a Historical Tragedy from 2021-05-18T03:00
The Tulsa massacre of 1921 was a coördinated assault on and destruction of the thriving Black community known as Greenwood, Black Wall Street, or Little Africa. Even today, the death toll ...
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The Post-Pandemic Dress Code, Plus Hilton Als on Alice Neel from 2021-05-11T03:00
When a very long year of doing business from home—in sweatshirts and pajamas and slippers—is over, how much effort will people be willing to expend on dressing for the office? Richard Thom...
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Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic from 2021-05-07T16:00
After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t over—and it may never be over, exactly.Listen
Thomas McGuane Reads “Balloons” from 2021-05-04T12:00
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. McG...
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Three Women Who Changed the World from 2021-05-04T03:00
“The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to be in public life at all. Frances Seward was a committed ab...
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Are U.F.O.s a National Security Threat? from 2021-04-30T16:00
In June, the director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense are expected to deliver a report about what the government knows on the subject of “unidentified aerial phenomen...
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A Surge at the Border, and the Children of Morelia from 2021-04-27T03:00
Nearly a century ago, during the Spanish Civil War, a group of parents put five hundred of their children on a boat and sent them across the ocean to find safety in Mexico. Few of the refu...
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Jelani Cobb on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction and the Future of Police Reform from 2021-04-23T16:00
The murder of George Floyd galvanized the public and led to the largest protests in American history. Even Donald Trump said of the videos of Floyd’s killing, “It doesn't get any more obvi...
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What Is Happening in the Internment Camps in Xinjiang from 2021-04-16T16:00
In a special episode on the crisis in Xinjiang region of China, the staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian investigates Xi Jinping’s government’s severe repression of Muslim minorities, princip...
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Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road from 2021-04-13T03:00
Rickie Lee Jones emerged into the pop world fully formed; her début album was nominated for five Grammys, in 1980, and she won for Best New Artist.One of the songs on that rec...
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The Brody Awards, and Louis Menand on “The Free World” from 2021-04-09T16:00
Oscars, schmoscars! Richard Brody is a critic of wide tastes and eccentric enthusiasms. His list of the best films of the year rarely lines up with the Academy’s. Each year, he joins David...
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David Fincher on “Mank,” and Daniel Alarcón’s Favorite Children’s Books from 2021-04-06T03:00
David Fincher made his name in Hollywood as the director of movies that pushed people’s buttons—dark thrillers like “Fight Club,” “The Game,” “Seven,” and “Gone Girl”—but his new film belo...
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Race and Taxes, and Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill from 2021-04-02T16:00
The investigative reporterJane Mayerrecently received a recording of a meeting attended by conserv...
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The Complex Story of Being Trans in Africa, and Derek DelGaudio on Deception from 2021-03-30T03:00
Our producer talks with the South African scholar Dr. B Camminga, whose essay “Disregard and Danger” deconstructs the viewpoints of so-calledTERFs—trans-exclusion...
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Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate? from 2021-03-26T16:00
No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more difficult in any number of ways, most of which will ...
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Remembering a City at the Peak of Crisis from 2021-03-19T16:00
April 15, 2020, was near the apex of theCOVID-19 pandemic in New York City, which was then its epicenter. On that day, a crew ofNew Yorker...
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“2034,” and Torrey Peters on the Taboo of Detransitioning from 2021-03-16T03:00
The retired admiral James Stavridis teamed up with Elliot Ackerman, a journalist and former Marine, to imagine how, in the shadow of an increasingly tense relationship between the U.S. and...
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Can the Royal Family Withstand Oprah’s Scrutiny? from 2021-03-12T16:00
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, was riveting celebrity television, but it may also be a significant turning point in the history of the Bri...
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Bonus Episode from La Brega: Basketball Warriors from 2021-03-10T06:00
Despite being a U.S. colony, Puerto Rico competes in sports as its own country on the world stage. Since the 70s, Puerto Rico’s national basketball team has been a pride of the island, tak...
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Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo from 2021-03-05T16:00
When Mohamedou Salahi arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in August of 2002, he was hopeful. He knew why he had been detained: he had crossed paths with Al Qaeda operatives, and ...
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Clubhouse Opens a Window for Free Expression in China from 2021-03-02T03:00
Clubhouse is an audio-only social-media platform offering chat rooms on any subject, allowing thousands of people to gather and listen to each other.Listen
Anthony Hopkins on “The Father,” and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel from 2021-02-26T16:00
At an age when many actors are slowing down or long retired, Anthony Hopkins has kept up a feverish pace, with recent roles including Pope Benedict XVI in “The Two Popes” and Odin in Marve...
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Atul Gawande on the COVID Vaccine, and Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah” from 2021-02-23T03:00
Atul Gawande, the staff writer and public-health expert, talks with David Remnick about the progress of the vaccine rollout, the new strains of the coronavirus, and whether we will ever ta...
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Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again from 2021-02-19T16:00
Tommy Raskin, a twenty-five-year-old law student, took his own life on New Year’s Eve, after a long battle against depression. His family laid him to rest on January 5th, and, the next day...
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The People Who Will Decide Donald Trump's Fate on Facebook from 2021-02-12T06:10
Facebook created the Oversight Board to adjudicate high-level claims about what can and can’t be posted, independent of the company’s leadership. This is a big deal: when Donald Trump was ...
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The Supreme Court of Facebook from 2021-02-12T06:00
Facebook is at the center of the hottest controversies over freedom of speech, and its opaque, unaccountable decisions have angered people across the political spectrum. Mark Zuckerberg’s ...
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Amanda Petrusich Talks with the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman from 2021-02-09T03:00
Amanda Petrusichdescribes herself as a “diehard fan” of folk music, but not when it feels precious or sen...
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Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It? from 2021-02-05T16:00
Immediately after Inauguration, the Biden Administration began trying to unwind some of Donald Trump’s most notorious policies on immigration. But, over four years, Trump’s advisers made m...
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Kurt Vile Talks with Amanda Petrusich from 2021-02-02T03:00
Kurt Vile—that’s his real name—helped found the rock band the War on Drugs. But he left that band shortly after its début to make records of his own. His albums include “Childish Prodigy,”...
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William Barber, and the Question of Faith and Politics from 2021-01-29T16:00
The North Carolina pastor William Barber, who spoke at the inaugural prayer service at the start of the Biden Administration, wants politics to be guided by faith and morality. But conserv...
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Unearthing Entombed from 2021-01-26T03:00
Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era,the early days of modern computers are growing distant and mysterious to us. The field of game archeology seeks to uncove...
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Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power at the Start of the Biden Administration from 2021-01-22T16:00
With Donald Trump rated the least popular President in the span of modern polling, President Biden might feel confident in claiming a mandate to advance his progressive agenda. Yet Democra...
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How Far Has the F.B.I. Gone to Protect White Supremacy? from 2021-01-18T03:00
Today, Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s work on civil rights is celebrated as bringing about one of the turning points of the twentieth century in America. But, in his own time, King was a divis...
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Donald Trump’s American Carnage Comes to Washington from 2021-01-15T16:00
Luke Mogelson and Susan B. Glasser report on the convulsions of Donald Trump’s final days in office, an unprecedented second impeachment of a President, and the threat of insurrectionary v...
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Questions about the Variant Virus, and Posthumous Albums by Pop Smoke and others from 2021-01-12T03:00
A new variant ofSARS-CoV-2 is making its way around the world; in the U.S., it has been found in at least three states: California, Colorado, and New York. Joe Os...
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Democrats Take the Senate, and a Mob Storms the Capitol from 2021-01-08T16:00
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Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick from 2021-01-01T16:00
Bruce Springsteen, an American music legend for more than four decades,published his autobiography, “Born to Run,” in 2016. David Remnick called it “as vivid as ...
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Atul Gawande and Andrew Bird Discuss the Art and Science of Cancer from 2020-12-29T03:00
Atul Gawandeis aNew Yorkerstaff writer, a practicing surgeon, and an indie...
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Lawrence Wright on How the Pandemic Response Went So Wrong from 2020-12-28T06:00
The first doses of theCOVID-19 vaccine mark what we hope will be the beginning of the end of the global pandemic. The speed of vaccine development has been truly ...
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Looking Back at an Unimaginable Year from 2020-12-25T16:00
It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimaginable. This week, we’ll hear four short reflections on the events of 2020.Listen
Bryant Terry “Blackifies” Fennel, and Ian Frazier Says Goodbye to 2020, in Verse from 2020-12-22T03:00
Bryant Terry is a chef, educator, food-justice activist, and cookbook author. He joinedHelen Rosner
The Republican Rift in Georgia, and the Protests Sweeping Nigeria from 2020-12-18T16:00
In the past month, a fracture has opened up in the G.O.P. between those who grudgingly accept Joe Biden’s win and those who falsely claim that the election was rigged. In Georgia, supporte...
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The “Times Square Two” Fight to Clear Their Names from 2020-12-15T03:00
As teens, in the nineteen-eighties, Eric Smokes and David Warren were arrested for the robbery and murder of a tourist near Times Square on New Years Eve; an acquaintance had accused them,...
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Ayanna Pressley and Abigail Spanberger on the Rift in the Democratic Party from 2020-12-11T16:00
In November, when the Democratic Party lost seats in the House and a hoped-for victory in the Senate fizzled, centrist Democrats were quick to blame left-leaning progressives. Rhetoric abo...
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Steve McQueen Comes Home from 2020-12-08T03:00
Steve McQueen is the director of four feature films, including the Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave.” His new series, “Small Axe,” which is streaming on Amazon, consists of five portraits o...
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Atul Gawande on Taming the Coronavirus from 2020-12-04T16:00
Can a vaccine be distributed fairly? What will be the impact if a large number of people don’t take it—as they say they won’t?Listen
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers from 2020-12-01T03:00
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her recent album, “Punisher,” from home. The critic Amand...
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Live at Home Part I: John Legend from 2020-11-27T16:00
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past year in lockdown. He has been recording new music (via Zoom), performing on Instagram, and promoting his upcoming...
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A Novel About a Secret Family, and Adam Gopnik on Being Old from 2020-11-24T03:00
Sanaë Lemoine’s début novel, “The Margot Affair,” is about a seventeen-year-old high-school student whose father, a high-ranking official, does not acknowledge her or her mother publicly. ...
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The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue from 2020-11-20T16:00
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a significant degree,Listen
Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax from 2020-11-17T03:00
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a conversation with Susan Morrison during the 2020 New...
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Jane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game from 2020-11-13T16:00
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in Washington, who have declined to acknowledge Joe Biden as P...
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Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now from 2020-11-10T03:00
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments that came into existence after the First World War were...
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A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe? from 2020-11-06T16:00
No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick speaks about the state of the race with some of Listen
Trump in Review from 2020-10-30T12:00
The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his core promises remain unfulfilled, he managed to reshape our politics in just four years. On...
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Driving Through the Pandemic from 2020-10-27T03:00
It feels like a lifetime since the coronavirus pandemic transformed Americans’ daily lives, seven months ago, and fatigue is setting in even as the disease ravages new regions. The staff w...
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The Future of Trumpism from 2020-10-23T16:00
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Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick from 2020-10-20T03:00
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Recorded largely before the pandemic, it features an unusual combination of winds, cello, piano, a...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy from 2020-10-16T16:00
At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew Marantz to talk about the Presidential race, and how...
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The Battle Over Portland from 2020-10-13T03:00
During the Presidential debate in September, Donald Trump was asked to denounce the white supremacists who were battling anti-racism protesters in Portland; instead, he blamed leftists for...
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Anthony Fauci Then and Now, and the Writer-Director Radha Blank from 2020-10-09T16:00
At the moment that Donald Trump was leaving Walter Reed Hospital, not yet recovered from a case ofCOVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down withListen
Marilynne Robinson on Faith, Love, and Politics from 2020-10-06T03:00
Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Jack,” is the fourth to be set among the world a...
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The Election, as Seen from Swing States from 2020-10-02T16:00
Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most polls, but Eliz...
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Keith Knight of “Woke,” and Jia Tolentino Picks Three from 2020-09-29T03:00
“Woke,” a new comedy on Hulu, is inspired by the life of its creator, Keith Knight. The show, which blends reality and animated fantasy, follows Keef, a Black cartoonist who is on the cusp...
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Can a Newcomer Unseat Lindsey Graham? Plus, Carlos Lozada on “What Were We Thinking” from 2020-09-25T16:00
Jaime Harrison may seem like a long shot to become a South Carolina senator: he is a Black Democrat who grew up on food stamps in public housing, and he has never held elected public offic...
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Miranda July’s Uncomfortable Comedies, and a Toast to Roger Angell from 2020-09-22T03:00
Miranda July’s third feature film is “Kajillionaire,” a heist movie centered on a dysfunctional family, and her first with a Hollywood star like Evan Rachel Wood. Like most of her work, it...
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An Election in Peril from 2020-09-18T16:00
This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both parties agree—and yet the pitfalls in the election process itself are vast. David Remnick r...
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The Composer Richard Wagner and the Birth of the Movies from 2020-09-15T03:00
The German composer Richard Wagner had an enormous influence not only on modern music but on artists of all stripes, and on political culture as well. His use of folkloric material to crea...
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What to Do with a Confederate Monument? from 2020-09-11T16:00
Across the South and well beyond, cities and states have been removing their Confederate monuments, recognizing their power as symbols of America’s foundational racism. In the town of East...
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N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft, and Jill Lepore on the End of a Pandemic from 2020-09-08T03:00
N. K. Jemisin has faced down a racist backlash to her success in the science-fiction community. But white supremacy in the genre is nothing new, she tells Raffi Khatchadourian. Her recent ...
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Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites” from 2020-09-04T16:00
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In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired teacher who lives on the...
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Rick Perlstein on Goldwater, Reagan, and Trump from 2020-08-28T16:00
“Reaganland” is the new volume in Rick Perlstein’s long chronicle of the American conservative movement; the four books, which he began publishing in 2001, run some 3,000 pages in total. W...
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Everyone Knew Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery. Why Did the Killers Walk Free? from 2020-08-25T03:00
It has been six months since Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was shot by three white men while he was out for a Sunday jog near his childhood home. The video of the killing, taken by one...
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Will This Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment? from 2020-08-23T06:00
Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos got the chance to sit down with the nominee in person. It was too hot to sit outside, but the campaign st...
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on HBO’s “Watchmen” from 2020-08-21T16:00
HBO’s “Watchmen” was nominated for twenty-six Emmy Awards—more than any other show this year—including two for the music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (who are also the me...
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Sarah Paulson, the Star of Netflix’s “Ratched” from 2020-08-18T03:00
The actor Sarah Paulson has appeared in “12 Years a Slave,” “The People v. O. J. Simpson,” and eight seasons of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story.” Now she’s starring in a new Murphy pr...
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Samantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back from 2020-08-14T16:00
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Int...
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Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System from 2020-08-11T03:00
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and anti-racism. But Isabel Wilkerson would like to incorpo...
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The Documentary ICE Doesn’t Want You to See from 2020-08-07T16:00
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants. The agency is infamously unwelcoming to journalists, but two filmmakers managed to ...
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Jeffrey Toobin Explores Donald Trump’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors” from 2020-08-04T03:00
The Mueller Report documented enough crimes and scandals in Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign and in his Administration to sink the career of any President before him. But Trump called ...
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions from 2020-07-31T16:00
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing civil unrest over police brutality and criticism b...
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Black Italians Fight to Be Italian from 2020-07-28T03:00
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law since 1868, with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendm...
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Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools from 2020-07-24T16:00
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to rebound. Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University...
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Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II” from 2020-07-23T10:00
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was cancelled, even outdoors, due to the pandemic, the Public part...
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The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist from 2020-07-21T03:00
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on both moral and fiscal grounds. But some ...
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Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism from 2020-07-17T16:00
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the Rapper tells David Remnick. “That beli...
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Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You” from 2020-07-14T03:00
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assaulted. She spends the rest of the show u...
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The State of the Biden Campaign from 2020-07-10T16:00
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now he faces an economic disaster and a public-healt...
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Laura Marling, a Briton in Los Angeles from 2020-07-07T03:00
The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but delicate folk music, starting when she was only eighteen. After several years touring on ...
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Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson from 2020-07-03T13:00
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly star-studded. This program features interviews with Kenan Thompson, the longest-running ...
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Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane from 2020-06-30T03:00
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge number of incarcerated p...
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Hilton Als’s Homecoming and the March for Queer Liberation from 2020-06-26T16:00
In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The writer Hilton Als recalls the two days of “discord and sadness” that followed, and reflec...
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The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA from 2020-06-16T03:00
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Administration’s cancellation of DACA, a policy that protects young immigrants commonly kn...
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Getting White People to Talk About Racism from 2020-06-12T16:00
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which racist systems are ...
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Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” from 2020-06-09T03:00
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her gene...
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Can Police Violence Be Curbed? from 2020-06-05T16:00
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1978. This week, the staff writer Jelani Cobb speaks with a Minneapolis activis...
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Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself from 2020-06-02T03:00
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dallas Mavericks owner has been advocating for changes that point to a different kind of politic...
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Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China from 2020-05-29T16:00
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal life; recently, he even went to a dance ...
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Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool from 2020-05-25T03:00
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the most natural thing she could think of: she assigned her tenth-grade class to read Albert ...
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Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery from 2020-05-22T16:00
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial to test the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine. A ...
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Perfume Genius Talks with Jia Tolentino, and Anthony Lane Examines Outbreaks in the Movies from 2020-05-19T03:00
The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino has been following the artist Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, since his first album; he has just released his fifth, “Set My...
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Jill Lepore on How a Pandemic Ends from 2020-05-15T16:00
Jill Lepore discusses the “stay at home” campaigns that ran on radio stations during the polio years, devised to keep children indoors; she is especially fond of a program that featured a ...
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The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing from 2020-05-12T03:00
For more than fifteen years, the fiction writer Edwidge Danticat has called Miami’s Little H...
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden from 2020-05-08T16:00
Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 deaths. Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of the country’s most stringent stay-at-ho...
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The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails from 2020-05-05T03:00
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnick for a Listen
The Economic Fallout of COVID-19; plus Mike Birbiglia, and Chika from 2020-05-01T16:00
As of the end of April, thirty million people have filed for unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet many believe that this is only the first stage or initial shock of th...
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Bonus Episode: Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People from 2020-04-29T11:00
As black people die from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates, the disease is highlighting health disparities we’ve long known about. Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s “The United States of Anx...
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A City at the Peak of Crisis from 2020-04-24T12:00
Experts predicted that Wednesday, April 15th would be a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New ...
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Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea from 2020-04-21T03:00
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rachel Carson was a young aspiring poet and then a graduate student in marine biology. Although...
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Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment from 2020-04-17T16:00
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War and Peace and Pandemic, and Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past from 2020-04-14T03:00
The contributor Yiyun Li is a fiction writer who also teaches creative writing at Princeton Universi...
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Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock from 2020-04-10T16:00
David Remnick on the hope and catharsis that he finds in New York City’s daily mass cheer, which celebrates all those who are keeping the city alive at their peril. Plus, Keea...
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Exploitation in the Amazon from 2020-04-07T03:00
This week, Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, ignored the advice of his own health minister, and went for a walk in the capitol, declaring “We’ll all die one day.” Bolsonaro, a right...
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Why We Underestimated COVID-19, and DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine from 2020-04-03T16:00
Despite the warnings of politicians and health-care professionals, many have failed to treat the coronavirus pandemic as a serious threat: the spring breakers on beaches, the crowds in cit...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Goes Remote, and Jia Tolentino on Quarantine from 2020-03-31T03:00
An old Alcoholics Anonymous slogan goes, “Seven days without an A.A. meeting makes one weak.” But COVID-19 has made in-person meetings impossible in ...
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E.R. Doctors on the COVID-19 Crisis, and the Politics of a Pandemic from 2020-03-27T16:00
Across the country, doctors and nurses are being forced to care for an increasing number of COVID patients with dwindling supplies and no clear end to the outbrea...
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The Shock Wave of COVID-19 from 2020-03-20T12:00
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the country to a standstill, David Remnick and New Yorker writers examine the scope of the damage—emotional, physical, a...
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Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family from 2020-03-17T03:00
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking d...
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Life Under Quarantine from 2020-03-13T16:00
Since its outbreak last year, the coronavirus COVID-19 has thrown the world into disarray. Travel to the U.S. from Europe has been suspended for thirty days; financial markets have plunged...
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William Gibson on the End of the Future, and a Visit with Thundercat from 2020-03-10T03:00
William Gibson has often been described as prescient in his ability to imagine the future. His special power, according to the staff writer Joshua Rothman, is actually his attunement to th...
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And Then There Were Two from 2020-03-06T16:00
Just over a week ago, Bernie Sanders seemed to be the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Then came some prominent withdrawals from the race, and, on Super Tuesday, the resurgence ...
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President Mike? from 2020-03-02T03:00
Eleanor Randolph finished her biography of Michael Bloomberg in June, 2019, just as the former mayor decided not to run for President. “He didn’t want to go on an apology tour,” Randolph t...
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Rose McGowan on Harvey Weinstein’s Guilty Verdict, and Neuroscience on the Campaign Trail from 2020-02-28T17:00
After a Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of two of the sex crimes he was charged with, Ronan Farrow sat down with the actress Rose McGowan, one of the women to speak out agains...
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Rolling the Dice with Russia, and a Conversation with Pam Grier from 2020-02-21T16:00
The complexity of world events can’t be modelled by a flow chart or even the most sophisticated algorithms. Instead, military officers, diplomats, and policy analysts sometimes turn to an ...
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Stephen Miller, the Architect of Trump’s Immigration Plan from 2020-02-21T12:35
Donald Trump began his Presidential bid, in 2015, with an infamous speech, at Trump Tower, in which he said of Mexican immigrants, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re ...
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Bernie Sanders Ascends, and a High School Simulates the Election from 2020-02-14T16:00
Bernie Sanders’s win in New Hampshire has established him as the Democratic Presidential front-runner. Centrist Democrats regard him not as a challenge but more like an existential threat:...
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Gish Jen’s “The Resisters” from 2020-02-14T16:00
In the near future, the Internet is sentient and her name is Aunt Nettie. Gish Jen’s novel “The Resisters” imagines a dystopian world with two classes: the “netted” (people who work) and t...
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Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage from 2020-02-07T16:00
Louis C.K. is touring comedy clubs for the first time since accusations of sexual misconduct seemed to end his career, in 2017. Several women charged that C.K. had exposed himself and mast...
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The Black Vote in 2020 from 2020-02-07T16:00
The last time a Democrat won the White House, he had enormous support from black voters; lower support from black voters was one of many reasons Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Marcus Ferrel...
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A Tumultuous Week in Impeachment, and Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril from 2020-01-31T16:00
The Washington correspondent Susan Glasser has been covering the scene in the Capi...
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N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft from 2020-01-31T16:00
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated authors in science fiction’s history; the novels of her “Broken Earth” trilogy won the Hugo Award for three consecutive years, a unique achievem...
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What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like? from 2020-01-24T16:00
Mass incarceration is now widely regarded as a prejudiced and deeply harmful set of policies. Bipartisan support exists for some degree of criminal-justice reform, and, in some circles, th...
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An Alternative Oscars Ceremony, and Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized from 2020-01-24T16:00
It’s time for the most anticipated of all awards shows: the Brodys, in which The New Yorker’s Richard Brody shares the best films of the year, according to...
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The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran from 2020-01-10T16:00
Next week’s debate, in Des Moines, was likely going to focus on health care and other domestic issues, but the agenda will probably be dominated by the Trump Administration’s killing of Ir...
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Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick from 2020-01-03T16:00
David Remnick has appeared as the guest of Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” a number of times over the years, talking about Russia, Muhammad Ali, and other subjects. Hosting “Fresh Air” for near...
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Dexter Filkins on the Air Strike that Killed Qassem Suleimani from 2020-01-03T14:00
Qassem Suleimani was Iran’s most powerful military and intelligence leader, and his killing, in a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Thursday night, will likely be taken as an act of war by Teh...
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Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads from 2019-12-27T16:00
In December of 2015, a video appeared on the Internet that stunned surfers worldwide. Titled “Kelly’s Wave,” it showed Kelly Slater—arguably the best pro surfer in history—unveiling a secr...
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Patty Marx Conducts an Orchestra from 2019-12-27T16:00
Patricia Marx is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and has contributed pieces for thirty years. Still, it might not be too late to try out a new career. “T...
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Peter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones” from 2019-12-20T16:00
In the classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a romantic with an exceptionally large and ugly nose pines after an unattainable woman. “As a person who looks like me, whenever I would watch a v...
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The Hyperpartisan State from 2019-12-20T16:00
North Carolina is a relatively purple state, where voting between the two major parties tends to be close. That might suggest a place of common ground and compromise, but it’s quite the op...
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Helen Rosner Takes the Office-Fridge Challenge from 2019-12-17T16:00
Helen Rosner is known for her high degree of resourcefulness in the kitchen: she once broke the Internet with an Listen
Lena Waithe on Police Violence and “Queen & Slim” from 2019-12-16T03:00
Lena Waithe is the screenwriter and creator of the Showtime series “The Chi,” about the South Side of Chicago, but she tells Listen
Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” and Damon Lindelof’s “Watchmen” from 2019-12-13T15:15
Greta Gerwig tells David Remnick that her adaptation of the novel “Little Women” didn’t need much updating for 2019: the world hasn’t changed as much as we might think, she says. Isaac Cho...
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A Worldwide #MeToo Protest that Began in Chile from 2019-12-12T18:00
Three weeks ago, members of a Chilean feminist collective called Las Tesis put on blindfolds and party dresses and took to the streets. The festive atmosphere put their purpose in stark re...
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The March Toward Impeachment from 2019-12-10T17:00
It’s been a busy week, and it’s only Tuesday. The chair of the House Judiciary Committee unveiled two articles of impeachment against the President, which are nearly certain to be adopted ...
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How Channel One Keeps the News Safe for Putin from 2019-12-09T17:00
Joshua Yaffa recently profiled a Russian media mogul named K...
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Jamie Lee Curtis, the Original Scream Queen from 2019-12-06T13:30
Jamie Lee Curtis comes from Hollywood royalty as the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She credits her mother’s role in “Psycho” for helping her land her first feature role, as the ...
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This Is William Cohen’s Third Impeachment from 2019-12-05T18:00
The current impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are only the fourth in American history, and William Cohen has been near the center of power for three of them. First, he was a Rep...
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Kamala Harris’s Campaign Ends in a Fizzle from 2019-12-04T18:00
Senator Kamala Harris had a lot going for her campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination: national name recognition, strong fund-raising, an association with Barack Obama, and a w...
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Robin Wright on the Eruption of Violence in Iran from 2019-12-03T18:00
In November, Iran announced new fuel rationing and price hikes, just at a time when U.S. sanctions are crippling the economy and especially the middle class. Protests broke out immediately...
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Rana Ayyub on India’s Crackdown on Muslims from 2019-12-02T18:00
In August, India suspended the autonomy of the state of Kashmir, putting soldiers in its streets and banning foreign journalists from entering. Dexter Filkins, who was working on a story a...
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Bon Iver Live at The New Yorker Festival from 2019-11-29T17:00
In the winter of 2007, a songwriter by the name of Justin Vernon returned to the Wisconsin woods, not far from where he grew up. Just a few months later, he emerged with “For Emma, Forever...
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Billy Porter Wears Many Hats from 2019-11-29T17:00
Billy Porter’s résumé is as impressive as it is difficult to categorize. His performance in the musical “Kinky Boots” won him a Tony Award and a Grammy, and, recently, he won an Emmy for h...
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Jenny Slate Gets Dressed from 2019-11-22T17:00
Jenny Slate is on tour for her new book “Little Weirds.” It comprises short, strange essays, many of which involve clothing and how we present ourselves to the world. While Slate was in Ne...
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Thomas Mallon on Impeachment, and Philip Pullman on “His Dark Materials” from 2019-11-15T17:00
As he opened public impeachment proceedings last week, Representative Adam Schiff invoked Watergate—which, after all, ended well for Democrats. To understand how that history applies, or d...
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A Progressive Evangelical, and Charlamagne Tha God from 2019-11-12T17:00
Eliza Griswold spoke recently with Doug Pagitt, a pastor from Minneapolis who is a politically progressive evangelical Christian. Pagitt left his church to found an organization called Vot...
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How the Irish Border Keeps Derailing Brexit from 2019-11-05T04:00
One of the almost unsolvable problems with the U.K.’s exit from the E.U. is that it would necessitate a “hard border” between Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., and the Republic ...
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Can Mayor Pete Be a Democratic Front-Runner? from 2019-11-01T17:00
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Horror with a Real-Life Message from 2019-10-25T18:00
The director Sophia Takal is working on a remake of “Black Christmas,” an early slasher flick from Canada, in which sorority girls are picked off by a gruesome killer. Takal brought a very...
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Roomful of Teeth Redefines Vocal Music for the Future from 2019-10-22T06:00
For a new music ensemble, Roomful of Teeth has made an extraordinary impression in a short time. Caroline Shaw, one of its vocalists, received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for “Partita for 8 Vo...
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Ronan Farrow on a Campaign of Silence from 2019-10-18T18:00
Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein and other accused perpetrators of sexual assault helped opened the floodgates of the #MeToo movement. In his new book, “Catch and Kill,” and in “ Listen
Nancy Pelosi: “Timing Is Everything” from 2019-10-14T13:00
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a lot of fights on her hands. After she led the Democrats to victory in th...
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New Yorker Writers on Hong Kong, and Nixon After Tiananmen Square from 2019-10-11T18:00
The months of protests in Hong Kong may be the biggest political crisis facing Chinese leadership since the Tiananmen Square massacre a generation ago. What began as objections to a propos...
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Adam Gopnik on Aging, and a Visit to Maine with Elizabeth Strout from 2019-10-04T18:00
In fifteen years, people of retirement age will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. But, the staff writer Adam Gopnik finds, the elderly are poorly served b...
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New Yorker Reporters on Impeachment from 2019-10-04T18:00
David Remnick asks five New Yorker contributors about the nascent impeachment proceedings against the President. Susan Glasser, the magazine...
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Cory Booker on How to Defeat Donald Trump from 2019-09-27T18:00
Senator Cory Booker burst onto the national scene about a decade ago, after serving as the mayor of the notoriously impoverished and dangerous city of Newark, New Jersey. To get that job, ...
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