Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, was one of a number of Kennedy family members who spoke out against the policies and the character of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Schlossberg became a pub...
5 Kesä 27min
Bonus: David Remnick Takes Calls on the Midterms and the Media
In a guest appearance on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show,” David Remnick, who hosts the New Yorker Radio Hour, discusses the Democratic Party’s identity crisis and the candidates vying in the midterm electi...
4 Kesä 44min
Colson Whitehead on His Harlem Trilogy
Colson Whitehead is one the few novelists, and the only still alive, to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction—for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.” Whitehead’s protagonist in the Harlem ...
2 Kesä 23min
Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate Candidate Who Could Tip Nebraska
As control of the Senate hangs in the balance, many eyes are on Dan Osborn, of Nebraska. He’s a dream candidate for the Democrats: a mechanic in the food-processing industry, a former president of his...
29 Touko 26min
A FEMA Insider Says Morale Has Never Been Lower at the Embattled Agency
The Trump Administration has made little secret of its desire to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and give states the responsibility to respond to all manner of natural disasters on t...
26 Touko 25min
The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”
There will be a variety of celebrations to honor America’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary this year. Much of it is to be expected: fireworks, red, white, and blue lights, even a military parade....
22 Touko 49min
America at 250: A View from the Streets
The staff writer and historian Jill Lepore is an admirer of the Federal Writers’ Project, and the man-on-the-street form of documentary it helped to pioneer. This type of journalism, she thinks, is in...
19 Touko 18min
The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore
The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives during intense disputes about American history, as the Trump Administration demands a more glorifying view of the na...
15 Touko 32min
