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Richard Brody offers his take on Best Picture of 2017, and the writer Chang-rae Lee goes shopping

Masha Gessen reports on Russian-American politics. And a former border patrol agent looks back at his time on the job

Director Ava DuVernay talks with Jelani Cobb about civil rights, women in Hollywood, and interplanetary travel.

An inside report on how the effect of Russian meddling in the 2016 election is forcing change at Facebook.

The New Yorker’s Ian Frazier, holding on for dear life, looks at the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing.

Steve Coll on his new book detailing the failings of American intelligence in Afghanistan. Plus, Amy Davidson Sorkin asks how hard it is for extremists to get elected.

A former vegetarian investigates a veggie burger that “bleeds” like meat. And Elizabeth Kolbert takes stock of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.

A provocative feminist critic of “sexual paranoia” explains why #MeToo has gone too far and not far enough.  Plus a few daiquiris with Richard Nixon.

The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a keen observer of American attitudes about race who’s not afraid to challenge the left. And, a performance from the folk musician Laura Marling.

Nathan Lane made his name as a comic actor, but he’s playing the villain, Roy Cohn, in a new production of “Angels in America.”

In the nineteen-twenties, a rebooted Ku Klux Klan brought white supremacy right to the heart of American government. What lessons can we learn?

The master of the nature documentary shares lessons from a life spent observing life in every corner of the world.  Plus, the nature poet Mary Oliver.

The co-star of ABC’s “Black-ish” discusses the ways that black women are and aren’t allowed to be funny onscreen, plus Jon Hamm speaks with Susan Morrison about life after “Mad Men.”