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Ideas to replace Obamacare that will blow your mind; Lynn Nottage’s new play about racial tension in the Rust Belt; and Jessica Lange’s foray into the art of mime. (episode)
Straight from the White House, some big, shiny, new ideas for health care, including a single-payer option in which “the single payer . . . is you!”
Lynn Nottage’s new play “Sweat,” which deals with blue-collar frustration and racial tension, has been hailed as the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era.
“Fake news” isn’t an Internet phenomenon; its tropes have a long pedigree.
The ingénue who débuted in the 1976 remake of “King Kong” has become one of current cinema’s grandes dames. In “Feud,” she plays Joan Crawford, one of the original grandes dames.
Joe Williams, who records under the moniker Motion Graphics, creates music that sounds like the Internet.
Jill Lepore takes a look at history and the Supreme Court. And we'll learn why Mo Willems retired his enormously popular children’s-book series “Elephant and Piggie.” (episode)
Conservative and liberal legal scholars make history their battleground.
What a writers’ workshop for prisoners can tell us about life behind bars.
Mo Willems is the Dr. Seuss or Maurice Sendak of our times.
A luxury layover for pampered pets and horses, with maximum security.
In this episode, “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway, high-fashion hijabs, and the tragic life of guitar legend John Fahey. (episode)
The creator of “Transparent” channels her fascination with gender into a new show, “I Love Dick.”
Nailah Lymus’s high-fashion hijabs dispel the idea that Islam and modern fashion are incompatible.
Let’s make sure the objectives are actionable from a budgetary standpoint—then let’s rip off our clothes and fight to the death.
John Fahey, the inventor of fingerstyle guitar, adapted folk and blues techniques into something entirely new. His influence was as great as his life was difficult.
Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, and Claudia Rankine talk about culture and politics in the age of Trump. (article)
At a safe house for refugees in Buffalo, NY, the difficult process of seeking asylum becomes even harder. And an establishment conservative assesses the President’s “casual dishonesty.” (episode)
A prominent neoconservative and former Never Trumper tries to reconcile himself to the mixed blessings of a populist Republican President.
At the Vive shelter, immigrants hoping for asylum in the United States or Canada sometimes find themselves in limbo, with no end in sight.
Photographer Catherine Opie talks to Ariel Levy about what connects her disparate photos -- from her own lesbian community to Tea Party rallies.
A populist uprising in an online multiplayer video game, and Jonathan Franzen’s favorite place to spot birds. (episode)
In 1987, Richard Nixon wrote to Donald Trump, expressing his optimism about Trump’s future political prospects. Was it a bad omen for Trump?
Ron Howard began his career as an actor on family-friendly television, but he made his name as a film director with an uncommon range.
Populists who were tired of the establishment went to war, overturned the regime, and took its spaceships.
The novelist Jonathan Franzen loves birding, but he brings the same “difficult, obsessive personality” to the hobby that he exhibits in his writing life.
In 1987, Richard Nixon wrote to Donald Trump, expressing his optimism about Trump’s future political prospects. Was it a bad omen for Trump? (article)