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Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio

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Published: May 23, 2025 15:55

When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only “once in a generation or two.” Salvant’s work is rooted in jazz—in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and…

From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night”

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Published: May 20, 2025 10:00

This special episode comes from “On the Media” ’s Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial,” reported by Katie Thornton. You know A.M. and F.M. radio. But did you know that there is a whole other world of radio surrounding us at all times? It’s called…

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

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Published: May 16, 2025 18:25

Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, began the end of Biden’s bid for a second term. The President struggled to make points, complete sentences, and remember facts; he…

Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer

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Published: May 13, 2025 10:00

A year ago, Percival Everett published his twenty-fourth novel, “James,” and it became a literary phenomenon. It won the National Book Award, and, just this week, was announced as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “James” offers a radically…

Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”

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Published: May 9, 2025 18:00

When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic senators to claim victory in a state that voted for Donald Trump. It made other Democrats take note: since then, the Party has turned to her as…

How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism

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Published: May 6, 2025 10:00

For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that would have been familiar to Adam Smith. But Donald Trump breaks radically with that tradition, embracing a form of protectionism that resulted in his…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk

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Published: May 2, 2025 18:00

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trust in vaccines and overseeing crippling cuts to research across American science. And yet his “make America healthy again” highlights themes more familiar in…

A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America

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Published: April 29, 2025 10:00

In recent years, there’s been a stark uptick in the level of violence and hate crimes that Asian Americans have experienced, but the “precarity of the Asian American experience is not new,” Michael Luo tells David Remnick. Luo is a longtime New Yorker…

Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”

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Published: April 25, 2025 18:00

As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions, and the rule of law, the Democratic response has been—in the eyes of many observers—tepid and inadequate. One answer to the sense of desperation…

Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game

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Published: April 22, 2025 10:00

In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed new life into the well-worn comedic form of the roast. Last year, she performed a roast of the football legend Tom Brady for a Netflix special, to much acclaim—with Conan O’Brien opining that…