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The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms. (article)
The New Yorker’s television critic demands respect for her medium, and a Mexican writer goes to the Southwest to try to understand the vigilante mindset. (episode)
The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic doesn’t just review shows; she’s making an argument about television as a medium that deserves respect on its own terms.
A Mexican writer travels to the American Southwest, where performances of Wild West history run up against the reality of the border crisis.
The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims. (article)
The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.” (article)
Victims of human trafficking are facing greater hurdles under the Trump Administration. Plus, a look at what’s happening in a very tense moment between Iran and the U.S. (episode)
The staff writer, an expert on the Middle East, says, “This is how wars start; everybody's playing chicken now.”
The Trump Administration says it has made combatting human trafficking a priority, but it has undermined a critical visa program designed to help trafficking’s victims.
The writer, a man of extraordinarily wide taste in music, clues David Remnick in to some great pop artists who aren’t extremely popular.
The historian and biographer has achieved a singular place in American letters by chronicling the masters of the art of political power. (article)
Sue Halpern, discusses the current antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them. Plus, Bryan Washington takes us to a Houston ice house. (article)
The celebrated historian and biographer talks about himself for a change; and Sue Halpern considers whether Big Tech’s honeymoon with Washington is over. (episode)
Sue Halpern on antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them.
The historian and biographer has achieved a singular place in American letters by chronicling the masters of the art of political power.
Can one survive in Houston without air conditioning? Washington, a celebrated young fiction writer, introduces non-natives to an open-air bar and community space called an ice house.
Masha Gessen on the sweeping changes for L.G.B.T.Q. people that have taken place since the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Can the movement advance in the face of political backlash? (episode)
At the Brooklyn Public Library, a drag queen teaches children a lesson of openness: “nowhere does it say you can’t play with all the colors in the crayon box.”
Masha Gessen talks with David Remnick and the historian Martin Duberman about the fight for L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
The actress, singer, and comedian gives a brief—really brief—tour of wins and losses in the fight for queer rights.
Vladimir Putin has long used the L.G.B.T.Q. community as a political scapegoat. Masha Gessen talks with an activist targeted by the Russian President’s regime.
Kristin, a self-described “queer black kid,” explains why she doesn’t want or need a fixed gender.
In a series of works about how the American justice system deals with black citizens, the filmmaker’s latest portrays the teens wrongly convicted of a terrible and notorious assault. (article)