Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing civil unrest over police brutality and criticism by the Presid...
31 Jul 202035min
Black Italians Fight to Be Italian
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is granted citizenship; it’s been the law since 1868, with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. But bir...
28 Jul 202030min
Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to rebound. Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, reviews wh...
24 Jul 202016min
Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard II.” Because most theatre was cancelled, even outdoors, due to the pandemic, the Public partnered with W...
23 Jul 202017min
The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the United States, on both moral and fiscal grounds. But some of the key r...
21 Jul 202028min
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the Rapper tells David Remnick. “That belief was reinf...
17 Jul 202022min
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assaulted. She spends the rest of the show untangling wh...
14 Jul 202020min
The State of the Biden Campaign
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis began triggering national lockdowns. Now he faces an economic disaster and a public-health emergency ...
10 Jul 202030min
