Anand Giridharadas

The world’s wealthiest man is buying Twitter, because Twitter is power. 

Anand Giridharadas talks about how billionaires are part of the problem of economic inequality.

What's the problem with taking rich people's money?

Several high profile billionaires have come out against transformational social programs like Medicare for All, arguing the country does not have enough money.

They're maligned and abused in public, yet are the object of obsession on reality television. Who are the so-called 'elite,' and why do we love to hate them?

Anand Giridharadas, New York Times columnist and author of The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, discusses his new book, which tells the story of an immigrant man who comes to forgive the man who tried to kill him.

Ten days after 9/11, Mark Stroman walked into a gas station and shot a Bangladeshi immigrant named Rais Bhuiyan in the face. Bhuiyan started a campaign to have his attacker spared fro...

Anand Giridharadas, "Currents" columnist for the New York Times and author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, discusses the massive blackout in India, which ended yesterday, and what it says about that country's development and democracy. 

Anand Giridharadas discusses what it was like to return to the land of his ancestors amid an unlikely economic boom. In India Calling: An intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, Giridharadas profiles the entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and Indian families who are responding to this economic upheaval.

Anand Giridharadas discusses what it was like to return to the land of his ancestors amid an unlikely economic boom. In India Calling: An intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, Giridharadas profiles the entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and Indian families who are responding to this economic upheaval.