The N.R.A.’s Financial Mess
Last March, Wayne LaPierre sent a fund-raising letter to his members—an urgent plea for money. LaPierre described an attack on the Second Amendment that is unprecedented in the history of the country....
19 Apr 201916min
The actor Christine Baranski on “The Good Fight,” and Kurt Vile on Songwriting
Christine Baranski was a successful theatre actor who would never stoop to do television in the old days. But when she got the pilot script for “Cybill,” and had two daughters to put through school, s...
16 Apr 201930min
Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen Debate Russian and American Politics
Masha Gessen and Keith Gessen have, taken together, written more than a dozen books and a thousand articles. Keith Gessen is a founder of n+1, an influential literary journal; Masha has written for ma...
12 Apr 201919min
The Neurology of Bias, and a Visit with Thundercat
Most of us have biases and prejudices we don’t acknowledge—or aren’t even aware of. Admitting those biases is a baseline of political “wokeness.” But measuring and proving bias, and showing how it wor...
9 Apr 201928min
The Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg on Coming Out: “I Realized I Couldn’t Go On Like That Forever”
During an exit interview with President Barack Obama in November, 2016, just weeks after the election, David Remnick asked who would be the leaders of the Democratic Party and the contenders to oppose...
5 Apr 201921min
How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses
Patrick Radden Keefe has reported on the Sackler family and their control of Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Among the sources for his article “Empire of Pain” was a whistle-blower named Steven...
2 Apr 201932min
Has the Mueller Report Changed Anything?
The Mueller investigation has been a two-year obsession for nearly everyone who cares about politics in America. For one side, the special counsel was a bête noire, a leader of a witch hunt; for the o...
29 Mar 201917min
U.K. Edges Closer to the Cliff of a No-Deal Brexit
Since the minute that British citizens voted, in a 2016 referendum, to leave the European Union, confusion and disorganization has consumed the U.K. Three years later, little has changed: confusion an...
26 Mar 201930min
