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Martin Amis Goes Out With a Bang - James Parker - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 9:53

In Inside Story, his final novel, the comic master delights, infuriates, and secures his legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uncovering the Cultural Revolution’s Awful Truths - Barbara Demick - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 17:34

Rebel historians chronicle a past that the Chinese Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Civilization Broke Our Brains - Derek Thompson - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 15:01

What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement - Deborah Cohen - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 17:44

The cause produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Naps - James Parker - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 3:32

Go ahead, take one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bats and Swallows - Erica McAlpine - Jan/Feb 2021 22.12.2020 1:34

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The Last Children of Down Syndrome - Sarah Zhang - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 55:12

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse - Graeme Wood - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 31:13

A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

98 Million TikTok Followers Can’t Be Wrong - Rachel Monroe - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 36:56

How a 16-year-old from suburban Connecticut became the most famous teen in America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Children Be Persuaded to Love a Parent They Hate? - Barbara Bradley Hagerty - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 40:14

When one parent in a divorce has worked to prejudice the kids against the other parent, the last-ditch solution for some judges is to send the children to “reunification camp” with the mom or dad they can’t stand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Return of Eddie Murphy - David Kamp - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 35:45

Without a road map, he blazed a trail for Black performers, and then lost his way. Now he’s back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

School Wasn’t So Great Before COVID, Either - Erika Christakis - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 18:14

Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future - Darryn King - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 14:55

Mike Pondsmith created Cyberpunk in 1988. Now it’s the inspiration for a highly anticipated video game—and an unlikely oracle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christmas Dies Hard - Amanda Mull - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 9:15

The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But we live in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What My Dad Gave His Shop - Francesca Mari - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 21:14

“I’m more than just my store,” my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It Wasn’t a Gun - Allissa V. Richardson - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 21:14

A material archive of police violence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t Subject Your Kids to Rudolph - Caitlin Flanagan - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 9:49

The world is bleak enough as it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teaching Should Be Political - Clint Smith - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 14:40

How to talk about race in the classroom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich - Stephanie Burt - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 17:09

Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whitewashing the Great Depression - Sarah Boxer - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 18:21

How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Flight Attendants - James Parker - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 3:35

They minister, they mollify, they bring us blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tinnitus - W. S. Di Piero - Dec 2020 24.11.2020 1:14

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The Election That Could Break America - Barton Gellman - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 58:12

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Midnight Message - Jeffrey Goldberg - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 3:41

Preserving American democracy in a moment of peril Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans - Mike Giglio - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 44:52

An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices