Jeffrey Masters

Jeffrey  joined The New Yorker Radio Hour in 2022. He previously worked as the Director of Podcasts at The Advocate magazine, where he received a GLAAD Media Award for his reporting. He is the host and creator of the long-running interview podcast LGBTQ&A, which has featured interviews LGBTQ+ guests including Angela Davis, Laverne Cox, Janelle Monáe, Pete Buttigieg, Tammy Baldwin, and Brandi Carlile.

Jeffrey Masters appears in the following:

How Alpha Kappa Alpha Shaped Kamala Harris

Friday, October 25, 2024

Jazmine Hughes considers the nation’s oldest Black sorority and its most famous sister.

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Brian Jordan Alvarez on “English Teacher”

Friday, October 04, 2024

The actor and showrunner talks with Vinson Cunningham about his new comedy whose main character is a gay English teacher in Texas, and what he learned on the set of “Will & Grace.”

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Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power

Friday, September 27, 2024

Gabriel Sherman on “The Apprentice,” his coming-of-age film about Trump. There are “parts of the film that I could imagine Donald Trump liking,” Sherman says.

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A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Friday, September 06, 2024

The three-time Tony winner discusses her new play “The Roommate,” alongside Mia Farrow, and bringing Aubrey Plaza—her castmate on “Agatha All Along”—to a “sort of theatre boot camp.”

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The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America

Friday, August 30, 2024

The novelist, who uses the word “mulatto” to describe mixed-race people like herself, talks with Julian Lucas about living across the color line, in a country obsessed with it.

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Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

Friday, August 16, 2024

Geraldo Cadava speaks with prominent Latinos about why the Republican message is resonating with them.

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Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

Friday, August 16, 2024

Geraldo Cadava speaks with prominent Latinos about why the Republican message is resonating with them.

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Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict

Friday, August 02, 2024

The writer Nathan Thrall and the lawyer Raja Shehadeh on the occupation of the West Bank, and whether there can be any prospect for peace.

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What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

Friday, July 26, 2024

Jennifer Palmieri explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard

Friday, July 19, 2024

The writer talks with David Remnick about writing the lives of the undocumented, in journalism and in fiction. Her previous work, a memoir, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong

Friday, July 12, 2024

A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.

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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV

Friday, June 21, 2024

The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I'm trying to talk to you.”

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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

Friday, May 31, 2024

A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.

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Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic

Friday, May 24, 2024

Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit.

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The Protests at Harvard as Seen by Student Reporters

Friday, May 03, 2024

The Harvard Crimson writers Neil Shah and Tilly Robinson see conflicting interpretations at the heart of the turmoil on their campus.

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Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young People

Friday, April 19, 2024

The evidence implicating social-media apps, the social psychologist says, is not another moral panic over technology. “Actually, this time is different,” he insists. “Here’s why.”

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Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out”

Friday, April 12, 2024

A popular young actor with a serious sideline as an indie songwriter, Maya Hawke talks to Rachel Syme about not going to college—the subject of her new single.

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Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”

Friday, April 12, 2024

The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright and novelist about the excitement and uncertainty of protests, which are at the heart of Silverman’s new book.

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Percival Everett and the Reinvention of Mark Twain’s Jim

Friday, March 22, 2024

The author creates a new inner life for a “Huckleberry Finn” character.

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The Anti-trans Backlash Is Accelerating in 2024

Friday, March 15, 2024

Already this year, almost five hundred bills restricting trans rights have been introduced across the country according to the journalist Erin Reed, who is tracking all of them.

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