Archive - The.Ink

J. Lo, New York, and the question of who belongs

3 hrs ago • Anand Giridharadas

26:23

A good man's quiet despair

In Elizabeth Strout's "The Things We Never Say," a protagonist hides behind a mask of amiability. It's our June Ink Book Club selection

Jun 5 • Leigh Haber

Abdul El-Sayed’s plan to "win the peace"

From the archives: My reflections on a Michigan Senate candidate's ideas

Jun 3 • Anand Giridharadas

An honest 250th birthday

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. on how anniversaries can be used to disremember -- or come into the truth of who we've been and still are

Jun 2 • The Ink

56:52

An Ink reader forum

Jun 1 • Anand Giridharadas

May 2026

Is America worth fighting for?

In Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.'s provocative "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries," the Princeton professor and bestselling author…

May 31 • Leigh Haber

Balance of power

Some big ideas to close the week

May 29 • Anand Giridharadas

BOOK CLUB: Today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, Courtney Maum talks launching her new novel, "Alan Opts Out"

Bestselling novelist, writing coach, and Substacker Courtney Maum today discusses navigating book publishing's choppy waters, and how she nourishes…

May 29 • Leigh Haber

Private equity is in your bed, and other tales of how profit broke America

Senator Chris Murphy's incisive new book on the cultural consequences of hyper-capitalism -- and how to revive the common good

May 27 • Anand Giridharadas and Chris Murphy

32:59

Live today at 2:30 p.m. ET: Senator Chris Murphy on how capitalism broke America

And how the common good might be restored

May 27 • Anand Giridharadas

Is China America's enemy?

A conversation with Evan Osnos, a journalist who has probed the lives and sentiments of ordinary people in both countries

May 26 • Anand Giridharadas and Evan Osnos

55:55

Live today: Did China outwit Trump?

With Evan Osnos of The New Yorker

May 26 • Anand Giridharadas

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