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WEEKEND READS: In with the new

The best writing and thinking for December 27, 2025

19 hrs ago • The Ink

WATCH: How the ultrawealthy keep failing up

Talking with Chris Hedges about the Jeffrey Epstein files, the culture of elite impunity, and how to remind Americans that capitalism operates because…

Dec 26 • The Ink

VERBATIM: Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness

The author of "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" on the curse and blessing of being alone, her 20-year road to making a masterpiece, and how her Indian…

Dec 24 • Anand Giridharadas, Kiran Desai, and Leigh Haber

57:47

BOOK CLUB: Wrapping up 2025, and introducing our first read of 2026

Some final thoughts on Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny," and introducing "Injustice," by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis

Dec 22 • The Ink and Leigh Haber

51:34

BOOK CLUB: A celebration of writers

In praise of authors, and the company they keep, plus our Ink Book Club writers share their favorite reads of the year

Dec 21 • Leigh Haber

WEEKEND READS: Brighter days ahead

The best writing of the week for December 20, 2025

Dec 20 • The Ink

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Republicans in disarray?

With the Epstein files delayed and infighting out in the open, is MAGA facing a reckoning at last?

Dec 19 • The Ink

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Victims of success

How the White House is trying to bend medicine and industry to its will

Dec 18 • The Ink

WATCH: Andrew Ross Sorkin on the AI bubble, our oligarchic era, and what CEOs really fear

The DealBook editor and SquawkBox host talks about business journalism in the Trump years, market crashes past and future, and his new book, “1929”

Dec 17 • Anand Giridharadas and Andrew Ross Sorkin

43:57

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Asleep at the wheel

Is there anybody in charge at the White House?

Dec 17 • The Ink

Salman Rushdie on free thinking and its foes, from ayatollahs to billionaires to Trump

The author talks about his second shot at life, staying irreverent in an authoritarian era, and why books will outlast iPhones

Dec 16 • Anand Giridharadas and Salman Rushdie

56:36

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Political violence

Thirteen years on from Sandy Hook, another weekend of mass shootings -- and a void of solutions

Dec 16 • The Ink

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