Episode 35: Samantha Bee’s Fury, and Staffing the Supreme Court
Could Citizens United be overturned? Jeffrey Toobin and Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, discuss what a Supreme Court dominated by Democratic appointees might do. Samantha Bee talks about how ...
17 Jun 201655min
Episode 34: Cats vs. Dogs and the Late Zaha Hadid
When it comes to the war on terror, bomb-sniffing dogs are essential companions. When it comes to your sex life, no animal provides blissful privacy like a cat. So which is the superior domesticated a...
10 Jun 201655min
Episode 33: Awkward Dog Banter, and the Marxist Who Brought Us “Hamilton”
In 2014, the New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about Kalief Browder, a teen-ager from the Bronx who spent three years jailed at Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime. Af...
3 Jun 201655min
Episode 32: Lena Dunham Turns Thirty, and Memorial Day Malaise
Lena Dunham talks about turning thirty and backing Hillary Clinton when her peers are feeling the Bern; and Amy Davidson gives us a history lesson on political conventions gone wrong.
27 Mai 201655min
Episode 31: Larry Wilmore on Presidential Comedians, and James O’Keefe’s Blunder
David Remnick speaks to the comedian Larry Wilmore about performing at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he now-infamously referred to the President using the N-word. The New Yorke...
20 Mai 201655min
Episode 30: The Politics of Genetics, Virtual Reality, and a Sound Castle in New Jersey
As scientists learn more about how genes affect everything from hair color to sexual orientation and mental health, we’re faced with moral and political questions about how we allow science to interve...
13 Mai 201655min
Episode 29: The Missing Boater, and Robert Glasper
On shows as varied as “Jessica Jones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Game of Thrones,” characters are confronting sexual violence in ways never shown before on television. Emily Nussbaum, The New ...
6 Mai 201655min
Episode 28: Annie Dillard, Anohni’s New Sound, and Torture in a Florida Prison
A former prison counsellor discusses the abuse and torture of mentally ill inmates she suspected inside a Florida correctional institution—and the emotional price she paid for staying silent. Plus, An...
29 Apr 201655min
