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Jon Stewart's children, and trolling the press corps Trevor Noah, Bassem Youssef, the founders of Reductress, and Andy Borowitz talk satire; a far-right blogger in the White House looks for a fight.
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Children's letters to Satan, and other Christmas stories Three unusual Christmas stories this week from The New Yorker
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Praying for Tangier Island, and Barry Blitt’s presidents This week, we travel to Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, whose residents could become the first American refugees of climate change.
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Bruce Springsteen talks with David Remnick Bruce Springsteen talks with David Remnick about his expansive musical career and his personal struggles.
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The problem of voting David Remnick explores whether voter fraud is really a threat to democracy, and Jeffrey Toobin explains how gerrymandering could put an end to the two-party system as we know it.
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How OxyContin was sold to the masses Staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe talks with a pharmaceutical salesman about the marketing of Oxycontin, and how it contributed to the opioid crisis.
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Ukulele superstars, and trouble at Trump SoHo Two veteran reporters explain how Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., avoided indictment in the investigation of the Trump SoHo.
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David Simon on the rise of pornography David Simon discusses his new HBO show The Deuce, which chronicles the rise of the porn industry. And actress Ellie Kemper performs a sketch about a would-be ballerina with delusions of grandeur. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
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At the brink with North Korea Evan Osnos talks with David Remnick about his reporting from North Korea. Osnos says that despite the rhetoric, war is less likely than it seems.
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Hillary Clinton on the 'clear and present danger' of collusion with Russia Hillary Clinton harbors no doubts that political allies of Donald Trump astutely "guided" the release of hacked e-mails by WikiLeaks and the planting of fake news in order to sabotage her. In a new book, What Happened, Clinton is by turns angry, accusatory, and apologetic about the 2016 election and its outcome.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why is Trump so behind on filling staff jobs, establishing concrete policies? Yesterday Donald Trump signed a “decision memo” to revamp the air traffic control system. But there was little legislative detail in the plan. There’s not much to other splashy announcements from the White House, including tax cuts and the arms deal with Saudi Arabia. And hundreds of positions are unfilled in federal agencies.
The Business
Industry insights and lessons learned from memorable guests We have interesting guests on The Business, and sometimes our conversations are too long to fit into one show. This week we give you stories that were too good to leave on the cutting room floor, including some sharp insights on making it in the industry from David Mandel, David Simon, Shawn Levy and Matt Reeves.
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Revisiting showrunner Steven Bochco on his memoir Steven Bochco, the writer-producer behind record-breaking Emmy winners Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue, fought battles with everyone from out-of-control actors to network censors in his long career. He isn’t afraid to tell those tales in his memoir, Truth Is a Total Defense. This week we revisit the conversation where he shared some of his favorite stories with us.
Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."