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Celebrity stylist Erin Walsh helps dress A-list stars including Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez. Now she wants to help you dress you. She joins us with New York Times-bestselling author and renowned spiritual speaker Gabby Bernstein to talk about her new book, The Art of Intentional Dressing: Your Essential Style Guide for Manifesting a Magnetic Life. Walsh’s approach to fashion is centered on the idea that what you wear can empower you to manifest the life you want to live. Hear her talk with Bernstein about her “CREATE” method – the clarity, ritual, edit, align, truth,...
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What will political power look like after the Trump era? Brian Tyler Cohen — #1 New York Times-bestselling author, MSNBC contributor, and creator of one of the most-watched independent political platforms in the country — joins us for a conversation with Don Lemon about his new book, The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World. Time and again, Donald Trump has seemingly changed the laws of political gravity — and in order to wield power in the years ahead, Brian Tyler Cohen argues, progressives and Democrats need to learn how to adapt to a new political reality....
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Are corruption and economic inequality becoming the defining issues in American politics — and the weapons that could drive a Democratic comeback in the 2026 midterms? From Donald Trump’s rise to Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent win in New York City, economic anger has become one of the most powerful forces in American life. The chasm between the very rich and everyone else — between billionaires buying influence and voters struggling with rent, child care, and basic stability — is no longer in the background. It may be the central political fact of the moment. But who can best channel...
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“Tell me about a complicated man.” So begins Emily Wilson’s contemporary translation of Homer’s Odyssey — establishing her as the definitive Homeric translator of our time and radically transforming how we understand a cornerstone of western literature. As The Odyssey enters the pop cultural arena this summer via Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation — a film inspired by Wilson’s translation — she joins us for a conversation about why the The Odyssey has endured for nearly 3,000 years. In the first English translation of The...
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Join us for a candid conversation with former First Lady Jill Biden about her life in the White House during a singular moment in US history — and her new memoir, View from the East Wing. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the shadow of the January 6 insurrection, Joe and Jill Biden arrived at the White House for one of the most complicated periods in recent American memory. A tireless advocate for women’s health initiatives, military families, cancer prevention, and education, Dr. Biden also made history as the only First Lady to hold a career outside the East Wing as a community...
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Join MS NOW legal analyst Andrew Weissmann — a lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office and FBI General Counsel — with MS NOW anchor Lawrence O’Donnell for a conversation about the political culture of deceit that threatens to undermine our democracy. These are the subject of Weissmann’s new book, Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America. Political lies, Andrew Weissmann writes, are foundational to Donald Trump’s policies: they fuel his administration’s weaponization of law enforcement and unlawful deportation of immigrants, among...
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Join world-renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik for an exclusive advance screening ahead of the Season 5 premiere of her hit docuseries, Couples Therapy, followed by a conversation. Following Dr. Guralnik as she deftly guides couples through real-life therapy sessions, Couples Therapy brings viewers into the intimate sessions to witness the conflicts – and extraordinary breakthroughs – typically hidden behind closed doors. Providing a rare, authentic look into real therapeutic, evidence-based, psychoanalytic interventions, Couples Therapy is a...
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Across decades of public life — as First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and presidential candidate — Hillary Rodham Clinton has become one of the most consequential American leaders of our time. She sits down with The New Yorker’s David Remnick for a candid, live conversation — a taping of The New Yorker Radio Hour — about the state of American life as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, and the extraordinary political moment we find ourselves in: the pressures testing democratic institutions at home; mounting instability abroad in the Middle East, Asia,...
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Emmy Award winning MS NOW host Rachel Maddow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven J. Ross join us for an urgent conversation about the new threat of white supremacy and antisemitism in the US, and what the rise and fall of hate groups in the wake of WWII can teach us about fighting it — and Ross’ new book, The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy. The American myth of a steady march toward tolerance and freedom has been shattered in the last decade by a rising tide of bigotry and antisemitism. But the truth is that the forces of hate in America...
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Twenty-five years ago, Roger Rosenblatt published the national bestseller Rules for Aging, a wry, witty guide to growing older. Not one to rush things, Roger’s sequel, More Rules for Aging will be out this spring. On May 21, he will sit with Joy Behar and Alan Alda to talk about the rules in general, and as they apply to their own lives. Join us with good old friends as they consider the gifts and difficulties of one’s later years, and tell hilarious, moving stories about three wonderful lives.
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So begins Emily Wilson’s contemporary translation of Homer’s Odyssey — establishing her as the definitive Homeric translator of our time and radically transforming how we understand a cornerstone of western literature. As The Odyssey enters the pop cultural arena this summer via Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation — a film inspired by Wilson’s translation — she joins us for a conversation about why the The Odyssey has endured for nearly 3,000 years.
In the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, written in a vivid contemporary idiom, Wilson captures the beauty and enchantment of Homer’s poem without poeticizing its carnage — a profound reflection on violence, marriage, and family. Nearly a decade after that translation gave Homer “a radically contemporary voice” (The New York Times Magazine), and nearly three millennia after it was originally composed, The Odyssey remains shockingly relevant.
In this conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, whose work is profoundly influenced by Greek myth and famously modernized Eurydice for the stage, Wilson asks: what can a story about travelers and the aftermath of war tell us about our own world in an era of mass migration, riven by military and political conflict? What can this epic of a “complicated man” reveal to us about contemporary masculinity and violence? In a nation rooted in myths of rugged individualism and sacred homeland, how does The Odyssey hold up a mirror to American life?
Hear Wilson and Ruhl discuss The Odyssey’s circuitous path through the waters of Western culture — from ancient song to modern verse to Hollywood. Find out how this archaic text, in the hands of a master translator, can offer a startling vision of how we live today.
“Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean… It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered.” ― Madeline Miller