Unpacking the Latino Vote, and Susan Orlean on the Queen of Tigers
In the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections, many pundits expected Republicans to make significant gains among Latino voters, further eroding a base of support that Democrats have arguably taken f...
22 Marras 202228min
The Stories of #MeToo
Five years ago, reporting on the film producer Harvey Weinstein’s history of assault and misconduct opened the floodgates of the national reckoning with gender and power known as #MeToo. Three New Yor...
21 Marras 202239min
How Qatar Took the World Cup
No self-respecting sports fan is naïve about the role that money plays in pro sports. But, by any standard, the greed and cynicism behind the World Cup are extraordinary. The cloud of scandal surround...
18 Marras 202221min
Safia Elhillo on Vulnerability and Anger in “Girls That Never Die”
The poet Safia Elhillo first found her voice onstage, performing in youth poetry slams in Washington, D.C., where she grew up, the child of Sudanese immigrants. She published her first collection in 2...
15 Marras 20220s
The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World
Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good health, he was not killed immediately but put to labor in the camp. Vrba (originally named Walter Rosen...
11 Marras 202234min
Mike White on the New Season of “The White Lotus” in Sicily
The first season of “The White Lotus” won ten Emmy Awards and was a critics’ favorite. A dark satire of the privileged, the show chronicled the visit to a luxurious Hawaiian resort of a tech mogul and...
8 Marras 202218min
Mayor Francis Suarez’s View from Miami
Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, is popular in the city he governs, and increasingly prominent beyond it. Conservative voices as disparate as Kanye West and George Will have floated him ...
1 Marras 202218min
