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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…
6 hrs ago • 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
Book Club: Elizabeth Strout's "The Things We Never Say" is our June pick
In her latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Olive Kitteridge" takes on Trump, loneliness, and the mysteries we hold within ourselves
May 24 • Leigh Haber
Will America become a nation of emigrants?
My conversation with the expatriate writer Lindsey Tramuta, who has reported on rising numbers of Americans fleeing a troubled America for rights and…
May 21 • Anand Giridharadas
34:38
The Ink is hiring!
As we grow, we're looking for a talented, voicey writer to help make sense of the news
May 21 • The Ink
TODAY at 12:30 p.m. ET: Will America become a nation of emigrants?
Join me live to discuss with the expatriate writer Lindsey Tramuta
May 21 • Anand Giridharadas
Man making you obsolete is sad about it
Take note of a new oligarch move: claiming to be "depressed" by the A.I. future they are ushering in. Call it atoning in advance
May 19 • Anand Giridharadas
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