Mythili Rao appears in the following:
A Saudi Prince Charms the West
Friday, April 06, 2018
The new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is on a mission to change the way America sees his country.
Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.
Friday, March 23, 2018
Scott Pruitt made his name as a tormentor of the Environmental Protection Agency, repeatedly suing the agency. Then Trump appointed him to run it.
In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
Friday, March 09, 2018
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer who creates propaganda by day and writes protest fiction in secret.
How Florida Became Gun Paradise
Friday, March 02, 2018
Marion Hammer, an N.R.A. lobbyist, made Florida a testing ground for a new wave of pro-gun laws, and officials at the highest levels of state government do her bidding.
Francisco Cantú Reflects on his time working on the U.S. Border Patrol
Friday, February 23, 2018
In a new memoir, a former Border Patrol Officer examines the emotional and physical toll of his time on the job.
Masha Gessen on Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America
Friday, February 23, 2018
Masha Gessen is uniquely positioned to write about Putin’s Russia, Trump’s America, and how the two intersect.
Steve Coll on the Endless War in Afghanistan
Friday, February 09, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll on how the repeated failures of American intelligence and policy led to the nation’s longest and most intractable war.
Ryan Zinke’s Deregulation Quest
Friday, February 02, 2018
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is a major player in the Trump Administration’s strategy of deregulating the environment. Elizabeth Kolbert takes stock of his actions.
Breaking the Overton Window
Friday, January 19, 2018
An observer of the alt-right explains exactly how that movement brings racist ideas from the fringes to the center of American discourse.
A Government Takeover by the Ku Klux Klan
Friday, January 19, 2018
In the nineteen-twenties, a rebooted Ku Klux Klan brought white supremacy to the heart of American government. What lessons can this teach us?
From a Washington Think Tank, the Conservative View of Immigration
Friday, January 12, 2018
A conservative policy analyst argues for greatly increased deportations.
The New York Times’s New Publisher on the Complicated Future of News
Friday, December 22, 2017
A. G. Sulzberger, the new publisher of The New York Times, talks with David Remnick about changing a venerable institution and the future of print newspapers.
Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Washington’s Response to Sexual Misc
Friday, December 15, 2017
What does Roy Moore’s defeat in his Alabama Senate race say about sexual misconduct in politics?
Louise Erdrich’s Storytelling Addiction
Friday, December 15, 2017
The Native American novelist Louise Erdrich writes an homage to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding
Friday, December 08, 2017
When the news first broke of an attack on the Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan, Susan Orlean went to Tonya Harding’s home town to see what she could find out.
Gagosian Quarterly Talks: Walton Ford and Emma Cline
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Join the acclaimed artist and writer for a conversation hosted by WNYC’s Mythili Rao as they discuss his latest exhibition, the duality of glamour and catastrophe and more.
Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents
Friday, December 01, 2017
The artist Barry Blitt explains why he never tires of drawing Donald Trump
Erica Jong on Grandparents and Grandchildren
Friday, November 17, 2017
The author of “Fear of Flying” on the importance of grandparents.
Noah Baumbach’s Unhappy Families
Friday, November 17, 2017
The writer and director Noah Baumbach on unhappy families and why they are that way.
Would Everybody Please Stop?
Friday, November 10, 2017
You know that thing you say? Would you stop saying that, please?
