The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is so “Fertile” for Comedy
The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with his first feature film, “American Fiction.” Nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jeffer...
26 Jan 202426min
Pramila Jayapal: Biden’s “Coalition Has Fractured”
Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic representative and leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has been sounding the alarm about President Joe Biden’s reëlection prospects. She fears that the fragi...
23 Jan 202430min
E. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”
After winning the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin, Donald Trump made his way to a courtroom in New York, where a jury was selected in a second defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll. In May, 20...
19 Jan 202420min
Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle in “The Color Purple”
“I think of ‘The Color Purple’ as the epic of our time,” Doreen St. Félix said in a conversation with the actress Danielle Brooks. While St. Félix admits, “I wasn’t convinced that we needed necessari...
16 Jan 202428min
How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.
This time last year, Republicans were reeling from a poorer-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterm elections; many questioned, again, whether it was time to move on from their two-time Presiden...
12 Jan 202421min
From “Talk Easy”: Sam Fragoso Interviews David Remnick
As host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asks a lot of questions, and recently he had to answer quite a few himself, sitting for a long interview with Sam Fragoso, who hosts the podcast “Ta...
10 Jan 20241h 15min
Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
The filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling challenging material about America’s troubled past. She depicted the bloody fight to achieve equal voting rights for African Americans in her 2...
8 Jan 202433min
How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target
The veteran political reporter John Nichols was taking his daughter to the orthodontist on January 6, 2021, the fateful day when the transfer of Presidential power was temporarily derailed by a mob at...
5 Jan 202416min
