Swing Voters and the Supreme Court Vacancy
This episode contains strong language and descriptions of sexual violence. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ensuing battle to fill her seat is set to dominate American politics in the ...
22 Sep 202031min
Part 1: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from law school, she received no job offers from New York law firms, despite being an outstanding student. She spent two years clerking for a federal district judge,...
21 Sep 202038min
Part 2: The Battle Over Her Seat
In the second episode of a two-part special, we consider the ramifications of Justice Ginsburg’s death and the struggle over how, and when, to replace her on the bench.The stakes are high: If Presiden...
21 Sep 202029min
The Sunday Read: 'The Agency'
According to Ludmila Savchuk, a former employee, every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same.From an office complex in the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg, employees logged...
20 Sep 20201h 1min
Special Episode: ‘An Obituary for the Land’
“Nothing comes easily out here,” Terry Tempest Williams, a Utah-based writer, said of the American West. Her family was once almost taken by fire, and as a child of the West, she grew up with it.Our p...
18 Sep 202010min
A Messy Return to School in New York
Iolani Grullon teaches dual-language kindergarten in Washington Heights in New York City, where she has worked for the last 15 years.She, like many colleagues, is leery about a return to in-person ins...
18 Sep 202031min
The Forgotten Refugee Crisis in Europe
Among the olive groves of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, a makeshift city of tents and containers housed thousands of asylum seekers who had fled conflict and hardship in Africa, the Middle Eas...
17 Sep 202028min
Quarantine on a College Campus
This episode contains strong language.Infected with the coronavirus and separated from their peers in special dorms, some college students have taken to sharing their quarantine experiences on TikTok....
16 Sep 202031min
