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Friday, August 19 2016

  • Episode 44: Russia Then and Now, and the Bard of Katonah August 19, 2016

    In this episode, a Nobel&nbsp;Prize-winning&nbsp;historian on&nbsp;the fall of the Soviet Union, David Remnick recalls the August Coup, and Clinton&rsquo;s top policy&nbsp;adviser&nbsp;considers the problem of Putin. (episode)

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    • The Coup Attempt that Changed the World August 19, 2016

      Twenty-five years after the August Coup, David Remnick and Masha Lipman discuss life after the Soviet Union. &nbsp;

    • The People’s Historian of the Former Soviet Union August 19, 2016

      Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories about life in the U.S.S.R.

    • The Problem of Putin August 19, 2016

      Jake Sullivan, the top policy adviser to Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s campaign, joins David Remnick in a discussion about Russian aggression in Europe and Russian hacking in the United States.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

    • Building the Wall August 19, 2016

      A dispatch from the construction site of President Trump&rsquo;s wall.

    • Mike Sabath Made It August 19, 2016

      Mike Sabath is just another suburban kid deferring his admission to Harvard to pursue dreams of pop stardom.