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The comedian Jerrod Carmichael explains why he simply will not give back to the community. And a former lawyer for Bill Clinton explains what it really takes to end a Presidency. (episode)
Staff writer Evan Osnos gets the straight talk from a lawyer who defended Bill Clinton.
Omar El Akkad’s new novel plots a very bleak trajectory for the path our nation is on: civil war.
In a story by Demetri Martin, Parker Posey plays a mother with a few words of advice for the unlucky camp counselor in charge of her hellspawn.
While many comedians see themselves as social critics, Jerrod Carmichael finds humor in apathy and ambivalence.
The poet Ellen Bass explores the habits that take us through life and death.
Staff writer Evan Osnos gets the straight talk from a lawyer who defended Bill Clinton (article)
In this episode, a gun blogger critiques the N.R.A., and Lena Dunham bids goodbye to “Girls.” (episode)
Hours before Lena Dunham’s thirtieth-birthday party, she joined David Remnick to drink champagne and discuss the end of her twenties, and the end of "Girls."
A firearms expert and author says that he’s all for gun rights but has major problems with the N.R.A.
In Peter Cameron’s short story, an angst-ridden teen wages a campaign of silence against the stepfather he can’t abide.
Lydia Polgreen, Eli Lake, Joy Reid, and David Fahrenthold talk about the challenges the press faces in covering Trump. (article)
The official line on Trump’s foreign policy; Jeffrey Toobin on the firing of James Comey; and a brand-new sequel to a century-old play, Henrik Ibsen’s shocking “A Doll’s House.” (episode)
Jeffrey Toobin sees the 2018 elections as the only remedy for an overreach of executive power in the firing of James Comey.
As the President prepares for his first trip abroad, Michael Anton, of the National Security Council, sheds light on the view of the world from the White House.
Robin Wright, a veteran reporter of Middle East politics, finds the President’s ambitious foreign-policy goals naïve.
“Saw giant stacks of wheat today,” Monet noted. “I think I am going to start painting those.” It was all downhill from there.
In 1879, the play “A Doll’s House” scandalized audiences with its tale of a mother who abandons her family to find herself. Now, 138 years later, Nora Helmer comes home.
Three pop-culture gems from the nineteen-seventies and eighties to help you recover from news overload.
This week: Roger Corman, master of monsters; experts in espionage talk shop; and Toni Collette, who’s never played a boring character. (episode)
Real-life spies talk about how the glamour of espionage in fiction only makes their jobs harder.
The creator of “Caged Heat,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Grand Theft Auto,” and hundreds more films talks about how he broke the mold.
Toni Collette is as riveting in a plucky indie comedy as she is in a blockbuster like “The Sixth Sense.” She tells Ariel Levy how to stay out of pigeonholes.