The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing
For more than fifteen years, the fiction writer Edwidge Danticat has called Miami’s Little Haiti home. The neighborhood is full of Haitian émigrés like herself, many of whom support families back home...
12 Maj 202026min
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden
Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 deaths. Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of the country’s most stringent stay-at-home orders, e...
8 Maj 202024min
The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnick for a special episode about the effects of mass incarceration and the movement to end it. Now, as th...
5 Maj 202022min
The Economic Fallout of COVID-19; plus Mike Birbiglia, and Chika
As of the end of April, thirty million people have filed for unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet many believe that this is only the first stage or initial shock of the financial ...
1 Maj 202028min
Bonus Episode: Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People
As black people die from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates, the disease is highlighting health disparities we’ve long known about. Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s “The United States of Anxiety,” speak...
29 Apr 202029min
A City at the Peak of Crisis
Experts predicted that Wednesday, April 15th would be a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, its epicenter. On that day, a crew of New Yorker writers talked with people all over the city, i...
24 Apr 202049min
Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rachel Carson was a young aspiring poet and then a graduate student in marine biology. Although she couldn’...
21 Apr 202017min
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert join David Remnick to talk about the twin crises of our time: the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency. During the COVID-19 national emergency, the Trump ...
17 Apr 202032min
