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Lena Dunham talks about turning thirty and backing Hillary Clinton when her peers are feeling the Bern; and Amy Davidson gives us a history lesson on political conventions gone wrong. (episode)
Hours before Lena Dunham’s thirtieth-birthday party, she joined David Remnick to drink champagne and discuss the end of her twenties, the end of "Girls," and why she's a Hillary diehard.
If the Republican Convention isn’t contested, what choice do dissenters have?
The author and former “Daily Show” executive says we can’t expect comedy to cure the ills of the nation.
In Peter Cameron’s short story, an angsty teen wages a silent battle.
David Remnick talks with Larry Wilmore about the President as comedian, and Jane Mayer reports on a conservative sting operation gone awry. (episode)
Larry Wilmore talks with David Remnick about what makes a President funny.
Jane Mayer explains how the conservative activist James O’Keefe foiled his own mission.
What happens when an Army tank commander who served in Iraq finds himself at a small Northeastern liberal-arts college?
Sound advice for college students graduating during the apocalypse.
The West Point English professor Elizabeth Samet teaches future officers leadership, and her playbook includes Virginia Woolf.
In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the intimate and global implications of genetic science, and we find out where movies get their sound. (episode)
Welcome to the thoughtsphere. What’s a thoughtsphere?
The physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the intimate and global implications of genetic science.
Virtual reality used to be the technology of the future. Now it’s here. How will artists use the young medium to tell stories?
Three weird things you need to check out: a random-film-clip generator, an Internet graveyard, and “the Turkish ‘Star Wars.’”
The sound of a guy getting beaten with a bat in “Goodfellas” was engineered by an ex-magician with a hideout in Jersey.
Two mothers meet on the playground, and things get weird.
In this episode, the jazz musician Robert Glasper discusses the genre's problematic fondness for the past, and a troubled man takes to the water for a series of adventures. (episode)
"Jessica Jones" is the latest in a surprising number of shows, from fantasy to family drama to comedy, dealing with sexual violence in ways TV has never shown before.
Have you ever wondered what that man behind the genial but authoritative voice that cautions subway riders is really thinking?
Robert Glasper, a Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, says the genre's become a museum of itself, obsessed with the great players of the mid-twentieth century at the cost of new talent.
Staff writer Ben McGrath tells the story of Dick Conant, a troubled man who spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character.