Ursula Sommer

Producer

Ursula Sommer is a producer and writer.

She has worked on a number of WNYC’s live radio shows, including All Of It, Midday on WNYC, and Indivisible. Ursula’s reporting has appeared on WNYC, Gothamist, and in The Art Newspaper. She has a master’s degree from Freie Universität Berlin where she studied visual and media anthropology and she loves getting lost in an archive.

Ursula Sommer appears in the following:

Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington

Friday, November 15, 2024

The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance. 

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The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

Friday, November 15, 2024

Two leading political scientists explain why voters failed to defend democracy: We never do.

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With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story

Friday, October 18, 2024

A concept album based on a 1979 gang film is no big stretch for the creator of “Hamilton,” a rap musical based on a biography of a Founding Father.

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The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood

Friday, October 18, 2024

Alexis McGill Johnson discusses lobbying for a Democratic “trifecta” in Washington—and what a second Trump Administration would do on abortion rights in America.

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Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years

Friday, October 11, 2024

The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his three-song EP. “I was getting a lot of positive feedback for . . . having heartache  . . . maybe I’m pressing the bruise.”

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Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term

Friday, October 04, 2024

A second Trump Administration would be “dramatically more managerial and practical,” the former Speaker of the House claims. Trump “has a much deeper grasp of what has to be done.”

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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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Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?

Friday, September 20, 2024

The Republican strategist Sarah Longwell explains what she’s hearing in focus groups from swing-state voters, and those who’ve “flipped” between Democratic and Republican candidates.

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Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

Friday, September 06, 2024

The Democrats’ top legal strategist in the 2020 Presidential election won nearly every lawsuit brought by Trump’s team. He explains why the threat to democracy is far greater in 2024.

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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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R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone

Friday, August 09, 2024

The staff writer Clare Malone reported that Kennedy, a Presidential candidate, once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park as a joke. But Kennedy tried to get ahead of the story.

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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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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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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel

Friday, June 28, 2024

Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.

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Ross Gay's 'The Book of Delights: Essays'

Thursday, December 31, 2020

Ross Gay on "The Book of Delights: Essays."

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Haunting Histories at Recess

Thursday, December 05, 2019

Artist Christopher Udemezue seeks to rewrite both national and family histories in his show, “Duppy,” at Recess through December 21.

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