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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.
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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.”
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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, explains the upcoming U.K. elections, the “catastrophic” Brexit, and the soul-crushing sham of a life in politics.
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After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted as teen-agers. Even after serving their sentences, the “Times Square Two” argued their innocence. It took decades for prosecutors to agree.
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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.