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The War on Bollywood - Aatish Taseer - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 14:44

Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a prime target for Narendra Modi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top Gun Is an Infomercial for America - Megan Garber - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 10:46

Reconsidering the meaning of Maverick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession - Daniel Engber - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 17:34

Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Better Way to Look at Trees - Rebecca Giggs - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 21:09

What pioneering new research has revealed about the forest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Disney Mismanaged the Star Wars Universe - Spencer Kornhaber - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 13:29

And how The Mandalorian can restore the true power of George Lucas’s galaxy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Procrastination - James Parker - July/August 2021 22.06.2021 3:43

The existential exhilaration of playing chicken with Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Brett Kavanaugh Out for Revenge? - McKay Coppins - June 2021 18.05.2021 39:09

Three years after his polarizing confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court’s 114th justice remains a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Purgatory at Sea - Ian Urbina - June 2021 18.05.2021 34:24

Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bump - Morgan Thomas - June 2021 18.05.2021 41:37

A short story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Simple Approach to Ending Extreme Poverty - H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin - June 2021 18.05.2021 15:57

Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative idea for helping families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story Behind Stacey Abrams’s Fiction Career - Ayana Mathis - June 2021 18.05.2021 14:04

How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Burn All the Leggings - Amanda Mull - June 2021 18.05.2021 14:59

What do you wear to the reopening of society? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elvis Reenters the Building - Tim Alberta - June 2021 18.05.2021 13:59

In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dharma of Working Out - James Parker - June 2021 18.05.2021 10:10

In her new memoir, Alison Bechdel runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Soloflexes her way toward transcendence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ‘Blurred Existence’ of Motherhood - Tabitha Soren - June 2021 18.05.2021 2:24

What it’s like to care for a newborn, in photos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Opportunists - Mark Greif - June 2021 18.05.2021 20:57

In Louis Menand’s monumental new study of Cold War culture, success owes less to vision and purpose than to self-promotion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women Refusing to Be Like Other Women - Claire Dederer - June 2021 18.05.2021 13:48

New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore the liberating power of isolation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright - Imani Perry - June 2021 18.05.2021 13:34

A previously unpublished novel invites a reassessment of a writer criticized for his doctrinaire pessimism about race in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to My Flip Phone - James Parker - June 2021 18.05.2021 3:10

Why can’t I quit you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Arrow Paradox - Mark Jarman - June 2021 18.05.2021 1:09

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Return the National Parks to the Tribes - David Treuer - May 2021 20.04.2021 52:17

The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong - Brendan I. Koerner - May 2021 20.04.2021 52:18

In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Won’t Remember the Pandemic the Way You Think You Will - Melissa Fay Greene - May 2021 20.04.2021 49:16

The stories you hold on to will be colored by your own experience—but also by the experiences of those around you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Western Rides Again - Jordan Kisner - May 2021 20.04.2021 30:12

A new cohort of directors, all women, is exploring the death wish that infuses the genre—and proposing visions of repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses - Caitlin Dickerson - May 2021 20.04.2021 24:09

The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices