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John Thompson was nearly executed for crimes he didn’t commit. His case raises a question: when prosecutors hold all the cards, can any defendant get a fair trial? (article)
John Thompson was nearly executed for crimes he didn’t commit. His case raises a question: when prosecutors hold all the cards, can any defendant get a fair trial? (episode)
John Thompson was nearly executed for crimes he didn’t commit. His case raises a question: when prosecutors hold all the cards, can any defendant get a fair trial?
At a funeral in Sana’a, a Saudi plane dropping American bombs took the life of a man who might have helped bring peace. (article)
Scott Pruitt made his name as a tormentor of the Environmental Protection Agency, repeatedly suing the agency. Then Trump appointed him to run it. (article)
At a funeral in Sana’a, a Saudi plane dropping American bombs took the life of a man who might have made peace. Plus; a look at Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. nemesis who runs Trump’s E.P.A. (episode)
Scott Pruitt made his name as a tormentor of the Environmental Protection Agency, repeatedly suing the agency. Then Trump appointed him to run it.
The New Yorker’s pop-music writer Carrie Battan plays three tracks that have grabbed her attention lately.
At a funeral in Sana’a, a Saudi-led coalition plane dropping American bombs took the life of a man who might have helped bring peace.
Jia Tolentino visits the prize-winners at the Westminster dog show and tries to come to terms with the badly behaved mutt who’s wrecking her home.
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. (article)
Armando Iannucci mines the comedy of terror under dictatorship in his new film, about the murderous officials who have to deal with life after Stalin. (article)
Armando Iannucci mines the comedy of terror under dictatorship in his new film, and Tracy K. Smith talks about leaving the city to find peace in the woods. (episode)
Armando Iannucci mines the comedy of terror under dictatorship in his new film, about the murderous officials who have to deal with life after Stalin.
Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her oral histories about life in the U.S.S.R.
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.
The poet laureate says that “green space has fed the inner silence that I think most writers are seeking.”
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer who creates propaganda by day and writes protest fiction in secret. (article)
Jane Mayer on the former spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the notorious dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia. And a dissident poet opens a window on North Korea. (episode)
Jane Mayer explains how the former spy Christopher Steele compiled his infamous “Russia dossier,” a secret report on Trump’s ties to Russia.
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer who creates propaganda by day and writes protest fiction in secret.
Josh Rothman is a rare guy who loves romance novels. He tells Curtis Sittenfeld why he thinks other men are missing out.
What we can learn about love by analyzing the work of Motown’s songwriting geniuses.