Salsa Star Rubén Blades on Acting, Politics, and the Power of Music
For roughly half a century, the singer Rubén Blades has been spreading the gospel of salsa music to every corner of the globe. “You could say that Blades did for salsa what Bob Marley did for reggae,”...
2 Tammi 28min
Elaine Pagels on “The Historical Mystery of Jesus”
Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a Profile of the religion scholar Elaine Pagels—a scholar of early Christianity who had also, improbably, become a best-selling author wi...
30 Joulu 202526min
The Company Behind the A.I. Boom
Across the country, data centers that run A.I. programs are being constructed at a record pace. A large percentage of them use chips built by the tech colossus Nvidia. The company has nearly cornered ...
26 Joulu 202524min
Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race
The Republican Susan Collins has held one of Maine’s Senate seats for nearly thirty years, and Democrats, in trying to take it away from her, have a lot at stake. Graham Platner, a combat veteran, pol...
19 Joulu 202549min
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry this year, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The ...
16 Joulu 202524min
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes
In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later,...
12 Joulu 202526min
Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary
This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary about the magazine’s past and present, “The New Yorker at 100,” is now streaming on Netflix. The director is the A...
9 Joulu 202532min
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About William Shakespeare’s Grief
Chloé Zhao was the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director, for her 2020 film “Nomadland.” After taking a wide turn to create the Marvel supernatural epic “Eternals,” Zhao has taken anothe...
7 Joulu 202523min
