Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made? 

Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where the Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.

The celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.” Plus, New Yorker writers pick sides for an age-old battle: cats or dogs?

A machine-made wave could make surfing a conventional sport—or destroy its spirit. Plus: an amateur conductor takes the baton of a major orchestra, and Kelefa Sanneh on Christian rock.

“Game of Thrones” made the actor a superstar; now he returns to his roots on stage. And Kathleen Turner, in the role of Satan, answers children’s letters intended for Santa.

The writer-director discusses her much-anticipated adaptation of the classic novel. And the creator of HBO’s big show of this season talks with Emily Nussbaum.

The actor, who shot to fame in “Halloween,” won’t watch a scary movie. Plus, Dexter Filkins talks to an embattled journalist about the brutality of India’s Hindu-nationalist regime. 

The Emmy-, Grammy-, and Tony-winning performer on his long-awaited success. And the celebrated indie band plays songs from its new album.

How did one woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? A former white nationalist goes on the record. Plus, Jenny Slate on how to get dressed.