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This special hour examines the effects of Syria’s civil war, the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century, from both inside the White House and on the ground in Aleppo. (episode)
Omar Dawood describes daily life in a city where death is everywhere.
The myriad conflicts that make up the Syrian civil war can be traced back to a day when colonial powers divided the region. Can the pieces be put back together?
To report from the front lines of Syria is to risk kidnapping or death. The journalist Rami Jarrah has been documenting the war there since 2011.
President Obama is haunted by the humanitarian crisis that unfolded in Syria under his watch, but he doesn’t want another Iraq War.
In this episode, the surgeon Atul Gawande talks with the musician Andrew Bird, and a panel of experts discusses what a Trump Presidency would look like. (episode)
With the American government’s system of checks and balances, how much could a hypothetical President Trump actually accomplish? Short answer: plenty.
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and self-avowed music nut, talks with Andrew Bird, whose music Gawande plays in the operating room.
Two songs by Andrew Bird.
Mikhail Baryshnikov talks about playing the revolutionary choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, and T.C. Boyle shares a blues musician he discovered on a college radio station. (episode)
After decades of silence, German children who lived through World War II are beginning to talk about their experiences.
Boyle, the author of sixteen novels and countless short stories, recommends a book, a musician, and a video series.
One of the greatest dancers of our time talks about acting, aging, and what it’s like to have dinner with Donald Trump.
A refugee from Yemen's civil war walks for miles each day in the desert, picking up objects of all sorts and assembling them into a homemade museum.
In this episode, Obama’s former campaign strategist talks Clinton and the Cubs, a mathematician rocks out, and the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris vents a little. (episode)
The former Obama adviser talks about working for and against Hillary Clinton, and whether the Chicago Cubs really have a shot this year.
Put it in coffee. Smear some in your eyes. Inject it into your veins. It’s organic and gluten-free, and it will make you a living god.
Mathematician Cathy O’Neil says math is being weaponized against us.
A novel about Korea, a Sleater-Kinney album, and a celebrity chef who’s all about home cooking.
Kenya Barris, the creator of the award-winning show “Black-ish,” is tired of talking about diversity.