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How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration - Anne Applebaum - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 32:10

While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents - Ruth S. Barrett - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 42:28

Where the desperation of late-stage meritocracy is so strong, you can smell it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last Exit From Autocracy - David Frum - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 16:58

America survived one Trump term. It wouldn’t survive a second. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X - Kerri Greenidge - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 29:22

Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Caudillo - Luis Alberto Urrea - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 14:06

Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Americans Have Turned to Nesting - Amanda Mull - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 11:11

If we’re going to be inside, it might as well be the inside we want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kamala Harris’s Ambition Trap - Megan Garber - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 12:24

By talking plainly about her qualifications, Harris embodies progress. Will it work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why Americans Fall for Grifters - Jake Tapper - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 15:37

A warning from a 1957 film Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Am I What You’re Looking For? - Imani Perry - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 2:48

Photographs at the intersection of race, gender, and work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible - James Parker - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 9:27

The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Get Rich By Losing Lots of Money - Vauhini Vara - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 18:45

Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why British Police Shows Are Better - Christopher Orr - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 12:36

When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Ode to Agony Aunts - James Parker - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 3:54

Taking pleasure in others’ pain as a reader of the advice column Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Homage to Bashō - David Lehman - Nov 2020 20.10.2020 1:17

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The New Reconstruction - Adam Serwer - October 2020 15.09.2020 49:30

The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America’s Plastic Hour Is Upon Us - George Packer - October 2020 15.09.2020 51:29

The country is at a low point. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that repairs our broken democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get Ready for the Great Urban Comeback - Derek Thompson - October 2020 15.09.2020 27:03

Visionary responses to catastrophes have changed city life for the better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate - Michael J. Mooney - The Atlantic 15.09.2020 45:41

She wanted to escape her marriage. He wanted to escape his life sentence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Minimalist Who Wasn’t - Leslie Jamison - October 2020 15.09.2020 32:32

I always thought Donald Judd’s work was intimidatingly austere, until I discovered the plenitude at its core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Italy Defeat Its Most Powerful Crime Syndicate? - Rachel Donadio - October 2020 15.09.2020 19:47

A prosecutor takes hundreds of mobsters to court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New Southern Strategy - Adam Harris - October 2020 15.09.2020 18:17

How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover - Amanda Mull - October 2020 15.09.2020 12:09

The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Search of the First Female Sports Superstar - Helen Lewis - October 2020 15.09.2020 13:26

The remarkable career of the Victorian athletic phenom Charlotte Dod—and the legacy that wasn’t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son - Jordan Kisner - October 2020 15.09.2020 16:11

Her new novel, Jack, explores the loneliest character in her Gilead series and the legacy of race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New Theory of Western Civilization - Judith Shulevitz - October 2020 15.09.2020 20:58

Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices