Bethany McLean: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
In 2008, the U.S. Treasury put Fannie and Freddie into a life-support state known as “conservatorship” to prevent their failure—and worldwide economic...
UNDERREPORTED with Nicholas Lemann
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From the worldwide rise of populism and medical tourism, to Chinese smartphones and Nigerian Cinema -- each season we’ll travel to different places and bring you the stories that you aren't already hearing about, connecting them to the current news at every turn. On this show, we’ll continue the conversations from our books with the journalists who know these stories best.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and "The Cosmopolites"
From the Underreported dispatch archives: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting "cosmopolites," or citizens o...
'Ghosting The News' with Margaret Sullivan | Part Two
Journalism is in crisis. The heart of the crisis isn't what most people think it is—the bitter struggle between Donald Trump and news organizations. T...
'Ghosting The News' with Margaret Sullivan | Part One
There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago when newspapers could easily have a 30% profit margin. Places like car dealers and grocery stores were a...
'The Call' with Krithika Varagur | Part Two
The second part of our interview with Krithika Varagur. In her new book, "The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project," Varagur traverses thre...
"The Call" with Krithika Varagur | Part One
Krithika Varagur's new book, "The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project," chronicles the House of Saud’s vast project to systematically tran...
"Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink" with Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Part 1
On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China. Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink represents a rare example of deep historical, cultural, and poli...
'State of War' with William Wheeler
The Story of MS-13 and Its American Roots. State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador’s World of Violence makes vividly clear why Salvadorans are fleeing the...
'The Curse of Bigness' with Tim Wu
Host Nicholas Lemann sits down with Columbia University law professor Tim Wu to discuss the politics of Louis Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt as antit...
'New Kings of the World' with Fatima Bhutto | Part Two
Part two of Nick's conversation with acclaimed Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto. Her most recent book, New Kings of the World, examines the new arbiters...