Portraits
As national attention is focused on the Obama portraits this week, we offer this archival Fishko Files on portraits of a less “official” variety. (Produced in 2007)Fishko Files with Sara...
View ArticleThe red line: Racial disparities in lending
It’s been 10 years since the great housing bust and lending is back. Not everyone is getting a fair shot at getting a loan. In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny loans...
View ArticleThe New York Times Podcast Club, IRL: 'Making Obama'
Podcast obsessives, take a break from your earbuds to attend a live meetup of The New York Times Podcast Club, a weekly geekout over the best in on-demand audio.Join us to hear and discuss an episode...
View ArticlePresident Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal
President Trump announced that the United States is withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — known as the Iran deal — in a televised speech from the White House on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleAn Architect of the Iran Deal Sees Her Work Crumbling
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as...
View ArticleBen Rhodes' Insider View of the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for President Obama, discusses his new book, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. Rhodes takes us on...
View ArticleVera Farmiga & Peter Fonda Take a Road Trip, Fatima Farheen Mirza's Breakout...
Shana Feste, Vera Farmiga, and Peter Fonda discuss their comedic family road trip film, Boundaries. Fatima Farheen Mirza explores family dynamics at an Indian-American wedding in A Place for Us: A...
View ArticleThe Eights | How the 2008 Financial Crisis Divided America
Tanzina Vega, new host of The Takeaway, and Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer and co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, discuss how the Great Recession of 2008 exacerbated the cultural divides in the...
View ArticleThe Eights | Obama's Presidential Run in 2008
Donna Brazile, former chair of Democratic National Committee and author of Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House (Hachette Books, 2017),...
View ArticleRipped Apart: Families Separated at the Border
President Donald Trump said he was ending family separation at the border this week. But we’ve stayed on the story, investigating the issues that remain: children being drugged at migrant shelters,...
View ArticleMandela's Vision of Freedom
Former President Barack Obama delivered the 16th annual Nelson Mandela lecture, ahead of what would have been the anti-apartheid leader’s 100th birthday this week. Mandela was a leader, activist, and...
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Pete Souza, Photographer to Reagan and Obama, Would Turn Down Trump
Having followed a steep path from his working-class immigrant family in Massachusetts to the pinnacle of American photography, Pete Souza ended up working for both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama -- the...
View ArticleIn "Hope Never Dies," Obama and Biden are a Crime-Solving Duo
A new book stars Barack Obama and Joe Biden as amateur detectives, determined to crack the mystery of a suspicious death on the Northeast Corridor.The tongue-in-cheek novel Hope Never Dies picks up...
View ArticlePete Souza's Presidential Portraiture, PBS Takes on 'Julius Caesar'
Pete Souza joins us to discuss his new book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents. This portrait of presidential contrasts tells the tale of the Obama and Trump administrations through a series of visual...
View ArticlePete Souza, Brian Cox on 'Julius Caesar,' Breaking Bad Habits, Gaslighting...
Pete Souza discusses his new book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents. Brian Cox unpacks the PBS series, “Shakespeare Uncovered Series III” as well as his starring role on the show, “Succession.” James...
View ArticleTo Impeach or Not To Impeach
Today on America On The Line, host Jonathan Capehart talks about the news of the day with Washington Bureau Chief at HuffPost, Amanda Terkel.Then, Jonathan is joined by a panel of very smart people:...
View ArticleThe Financial Crash and the Climate Crisis
Ten years after the financial crash of 2008, the economy is humming along, with steady growth and rising employment. Yet that crisis continues to shape our world, particularly with the rise of...
View ArticleAdam Davidson Revisits the 2008 Financial Crash with Hank Paulson, Who Was on...
Adam Davidson spent a year in Baghdad reporting on the Iraq War, but he recalls the week in 2008 when he covered the collapse of the stock market as, in some ways, more frightening. The American way of...
View ArticleThe Financial Crash and the Climate Crisis
Ten years after the financial crash of 2008, the economy is humming along, with steady growth and rising employment. Yet that crisis continues to shape our world, particularly through the rise of...
View ArticleAfter the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy Was Fracked Up
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act injected almost nine hundred billion dollars into the U.S. economy to help the nation recover from the 2008 financial crisis. Ninety billion dollars went to...
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