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A few tips from Instagram’s Mike Krieger, plus three jokes from Bob Mankoff. (episode)
Every young techie was launching photo apps in 2010. Why did Instagram take off?
What are a cartoonist’s favorite jokes?
Bryan Stevenson says we still lack a sense of shame and a desire to right wrongs.
Tunisia, the lone success story of the Arab Spring, is now an incubator of jihadis, The New Yorker’s George Packer says.
David Haglund grew up in the Mormon Church, but an encounter with Wallace Stevens changed the way he saw the world.
Three experts explain the rise of Trump, Cynthia Erivo on her rise to Broadway, and Roz Chast meets a fan. (episode)
For journalists, a Trump-Clinton race will be a gift that keeps on giving.
There’s always drama when foodies go out to eat. Even when those foodies are birds.
Roz Chast is visited by a fan, her fellow-cartoonist Liana Finck.
Cynthia Erivo is captivating audiences as Celie in “The Color Purple” on Broadway.
The “Veep” star weighs in on the insane 2016 campaign, and Malcolm Gladwell attempts to understand a terrible trend. (episode)
Learning to breathe deeply, without hyperventilating.
The HBO sitcom “Veep” once seemed like outrageous satire. Then the 2016 election started.
After moving out of his mom’s house, the twenty-two-year-old has released a solo album.
School shooters have become part of a self-perpetuating subculture, Malcolm Gladwell says.
The founding father died near Jane Street in Manhattan, and his ghost has seemed particularly active lately.
A Manhattan bartender returns to an ancestral mansion, and Siri guides you home after a few too many. (episode)
Siri navigates you home from the party after a few too many.
An Obie-winning composer takes America’s political temperature, in song.
In “Slut: The Play,” stories of sexual assault and its aftermath have been recreated from the experiences of the cast.
A Manhattan bartender reclaims his ancestral mansion in Serbia.
Low oil prices used to be a windfall for the American economy. So where’s the boom?
Kelefa Sanneh recommends three E.D.M. tracks.