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Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun - Barton Gellman - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 1:37:15

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Party, and Nation, in Crisis - Jeffrey Goldberg - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 5:16

The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What the GOP Does to Its Own Dissenters - Tim Alberta - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 38:24

After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the Republican Party away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic - Kaitlyn Tiffany - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 47:22

Dispatches from a moral panic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the Myth of Voter Fraud Comes for You - Vann Newkirk II - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 30:24

To support the Republican narrative that our elections are rife with misconduct, someone needs to take the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Happened to American Conservatism? - David Brooks - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 31:30

The rich philosophical tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are We Doomed? - George Packer - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 17:18

To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Power of Trump’s Magnetism in One Photo - Amy Weiss-Meyer - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 1:12

Capturing the intensity of a crowd’s adulation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rewriting the Book of Genesis - James Parker - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 10:05

Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, John Milton was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Impossible Politics of Johnny Cash - Stephen Metcalf - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 23:50

He was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beware Prophecies of Civil War - Fintan O’Toole - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 17:03

The idea that such a catastrophe is unavoidable in America is inflammatory and corrosive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hanya Yanagihara’s Haunted America - Jordan Kisner - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 16:04

Her new novel experiments with alternative versions of history, upending personal and national destinies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kleptocrats Next Door - Anne Applebaum - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 16:41

The United States has a dirty-money problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to America - James Parker - January/February 2021 21.12.2021 3:41

You’re better than this, sweet land of liberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Unspoken - Ada Limón - January/February 2022 21.12.2021 1:56

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Why Is France So Afraid of God? - Rachel Donadio - December 2021 30.11.2021 45:15

How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Antiquities Cop - Ariel Sabar - December 2021 30.11.2021 31:32

Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing? - Jacob Stern - December 2021 30.11.2021 43:34

In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The End of Trust - Jerry Useem - December 2021 30.11.2021 12:41

Suspicion is undermining the American economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Package Is the Message - Amanda Mull - December 2021 30.11.2021 16:10

American consumers can’t resist the lure of a well-designed container. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snowbirds - Jaquira Díaz - December 2021 30.11.2021 3:08

Technicolor scenes from a bygone Miami Beach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Martial Art I Can’t Live Without - Stephanie Hayes - December 2021 30.11.2021 12:32

Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bad Guys Are Winning - Anne Applebaum - December 2021 30.11.2021 58:15

If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Animals of the Future - Rebecca Giggs - December 2021 30.11.2021 20:58

Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached - Mark Greif - December 2021 30.11.2021 19:21

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices