Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights
Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view of gender as biology the key to their platforms. In this episode, David Remnick talks to two people ...
10 Mar 202349min
Introducing: “In The Dark”
“In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its first two seasons, “In The Dark,” hosted by the reporter M...
9 Mar 202318min
Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson
When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting videos of themselves singing on YouTube and quickly built a following. Their covers often went viral—t...
7 Mar 202324min
The Russian Activist Maria Pevchikh on the Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia
Well before launching the horrifying campaign against Ukraine a year ago, Vladimir Putin had been undermining Russia as well: normalizing corruption on a massive scale, and suppressing dissent and dem...
3 Mar 202326min
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; and the 2023 Brody Awards
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in a genre all its own, and is an extremely unlikely favorite for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It’s a loopy sci-fi quest that becomes a martial arts reven...
28 Feb 202331min
The Pandemic at Three: Who Got it Right?
As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its fourth year, we can begin to gain some clarity on which countries, and which U.S. states, had the best outcomes over time. In a conversation with David Remnick,...
24 Feb 202319min
Angela Bassett on Playing Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda of Wakanda
It’s been almost three decades since Angela Bassett emerged in Hollywood as a “totem of empowered Black womanhood,” as Michael Schulman puts it—known for groundbreaking roles in films like “What’s Lov...
21 Feb 202320min
A Year of the War in Ukraine
In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield. Yet an end to the conflict seems nowhere in sight. “Putin’s strategy could be defined as ‘I can’t ha...
17 Feb 202330min
