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A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in...

A.M. Homes’ The Unfolding: On War and Also Walking Away

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.This summer we learned that the largest-ever political donation — $1.6b in shares of an about-to-be-sold business — was given to a non-profit set...

Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Violence into Action

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas...

Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who...

Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an...

BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and...

Right or Wrong Polls Aren’t Good

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.Who were the biggest losers of the midterms? The media! wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank November 9.The vast majority of political journalists were...

Ask Angola Prison: What Difference Can a Play Make? 

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on...

“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 1/9/23).“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the...

Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received...

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