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Lily Tomlin reflects on falling in love and breaking taboos, and reporters in Washington and Moscow look at Trump’s vexed relationship with Russia. (episode)
Lily Tomlin reflects on a singular career: “I had a fearless, indomitable spirit.”
Three reporters compare notes on the evolving scandals that involve Russia and the Trump administration.
The cartoonist Emily Flake recommends a book of philosophy from the nineteen-thirties that presciently describes our current moment.
Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s “Comma Queen,” is ready for someone else to worry about punctuation.
Three actors in conversation at The New Yorker Festival. (episode)
On “Key & Peele,” Keegan-Michael Key played the hotheaded id of Barack Obama. But he yearns to play another vexed leader: Othello.
Finding the theatre saved John Goodman; recovering from alcoholism made him a better person.
Nobody plays a villain like Jeremy Irons does. “I have got a good amount of evil hidden away in me,” he admits.
Anthony Bourdain talks writing, travel, and President Obama’s eating habits, and Robin Wright looks at the dangers of foreign policy conducted by tweet. (episode)
Once an anonymous cook struggling with addiction, Anthony Bourdain wrote a ribald memoir and rose to food stardom. Now he chows down with Presidents.
The creative class is press-ganged into building the “big, beautiful wall” along our southern border.
Robin Wright sits down with former top officials in intelligence and diplomacy for a frank conversation about where “America first” really leads.
After miraculously surviving a bombing campaign in Aleppo, Omar Dawood and his family made it to safety in Turkey.
Yiyun Li’s life has taken her from Beijing to Oakland. She visits the city’s Mountain View Cemetery to absorb the history of her adopted home.
Two doctors describe how Trump’s policies may affect patient care, and a brief history of entertainers making political statements on Oscar night. (episode)
From Marlon Brando to Halle Berry to Michael Moore, entertainers have used the Oscars to make statements. This year’s ceremony might be a doozy of even greater proportions.
What would the end of Obamacare look like?
Trump’s executive order on immigration is intended to prevent terrorists from entering the country. But it’s also keeping physicians out.
A cappella is the dorkiest thing in the world, the a-cappella composer Kristen Anderson-Lopez says.