A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving; Plus, Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a Thanksgiving performance that’s respectful of Native peoples, historically accurate (while not too gr...
29 Nov 202424min
Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Sarah McBride just became the first transgender person elected to the United States Congress. A Democrat, she worked for the Human Rights Campaign before serving in the Delaware State Senate. McBride...
26 Nov 202440min
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
Since the founding of the nation, just 116 people have served as Supreme Court Justices; the 116th is Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by President Biden in 2022. Jackson joined a Court with six conse...
22 Nov 202425min
Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington
Danielle Deadwyler, who first grabbed the spotlight for her performance as Emmett Till’s mother in the film “Till,” stars in a new film called “The Piano Lesson”—one of August Wilson’s Century Cycle p...
19 Nov 202418min
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims. It’s hardly the first time that the democratic process has brought an anti-democratic leader to power. The political ...
15 Nov 202431min
Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,” is something different—a loud, clubby production designed to attract audiences the age of its protagonists. “It’s as...
12 Nov 202421min
Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future
In the end, Donald Trump’s rhetoric of another stolen election, and his opponents’ warnings that he would once again attempt to subvert a loss, were moot. Trump, a convicted felon and sexual abuser, w...
8 Nov 202449min
Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now
It made news when the retired general John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that the former President fit the definition of a fascist. The MSNBC host Rachel Maddow could hard...
4 Nov 202422min
