"She's Never Done Anything Halfway": Making a Far Right Extremist

"If It Were Easy, We'd Have Done It": Power: On our first episode, we’re talking about power: from the inadequacy of empowerment, to what it feels like to be powerful (and powerless); and how to change who actually has power. by The Cut

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Can You Be Ambitious and Happy?: This week, we take a look at ambition: the internal force that wakes you up at 2:30 am full of ideas, that makes you want to do more than you thought you could, or than anyone else said you can. by The Cut

35 min listen

A Totally Different Game: How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wins: It's election day. There are a record 257 women are running for Congress, and on this week’s show, we're focusing on one of them: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. by The Cut

34 min listen

"He's Coming After Us": A List and a Lawsuit by The Cut

29 min listen

How Sarah Koenig Gets It Done: Sarah Koenig is the host and co-creator of Serial, the show that made podcasts a cultural phenomenon. After three seasons of exhaustive reporting, we wanted to ask her: how does she get it done? We sat down with Sarah to talk about how she balances work demands and supporting her family, her work wife, how she got over her fear of flying; and much more. by The Cut

31 min listen

Escape from Shame Jail: On Apologies: It's the perfect time of year for apologies. Instead of thinking about everything you're going to do right in the future, what about everything you did wrong in the past? We asked our listeners what they were sorry for... and they had A LOT to say. by The Cut

30 min listen

How Robin Roberts Gets It Done: For the first in our "How I Get It Done" series, Stella Bugbee talks with Good Morning America host Robin Roberts. by The Cut

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Ferrante Forever: We Revisit My Brilliant Friend: This week we’re talking about the Neapolitan novels, by Elena Ferrante. An adaptation of the first book in that series, My Brilliant Friend, is coming to HBO later this month... and we’re using that as an excuse to revisit Ferrante's world. by The Cut

36 min listen

Bad Sex, Good Sex, Book Sex: Fiction That Makes Sense of How We Bone: Two different eras of sexual tumult, two very different blockbuster stories about sex. This week, we discuss books and boning. by The Cut

33 min listen

How Jill Kargman Gets It Done by The Cut

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The Women of the Caravan: A caravan of migrants from Honduras reached the U.S. border a few weeks ago. Now, thousands are living in a camp in Tijuana, waiting to find out whether they'll be allowed in the country. We visited the camp to talk to women about what life is like in limbo -- caught between countries, separated from their families, with no idea what comes next. by The Cut

33 min listen

Motherhood: "You Can't Back Out": This week, stories about motherhood, and the bullshit that comes your way. by The Cut

38 min listen

Down the Street from a Mass Shooting by The Cut

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"She's Never Done Anything Halfway": Making a Far Right Extremist: The violence of the last week has clearly shown how hateful rhetoric can translate to real-world violence. So, what do we know about the conditions that allow hate to take hold? In this episode, Cut writer Anna Silman examines the path to right-wing extremism taken by her high school classmate, Faith Goldy. by The Cut

34 min listen

How Rukmini Callimachi Gets It Done: We talked with Rukmini Callimachi, award winning journalist and host of the podcast Caliphate, about how she gets it done. by The Cut

38 min listen

How Yasmeen Hassan Gets It Done: How Global Executive Director for Equality Now, Yasmeen Hassan, gets it done. by The Cut

28 min listen

How the Stars of Russian Doll, Shrill, and Top Chef Get It Done: Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Padma Lakshmi, Aidy Bryant, and Hope Solo tell us how they tackle rejection, imposter syndrome, new job stress, and get it all done. by The Cut

30 min listen

Beat Around the Bush: On Pubes by The Cut

39 min listen

How Amy Sherald Gets It Done: We talk with artist Amy Sherald for our "How I Get It Done Series" about sudden fame, by The Cut

21 min listen

Like It or Not: "Likeable" has always been a loaded word when it comes to women in politics--it sounds a lot like barely-veiled sexism. But what if everything's changing? How does a politician make voters like her in 2019? by The Cut

30 min listen

How Nora McInerny Gets It Done: How author, podcast host, and self-described "tragedy connoisseur" Nora McInerny gets it done by The Cut

24 min listen

Everybody Must Get Stoned: How are we feeling about weed? On this week's show, we talk to Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld of HBO's High Maintenance, Jia Tolentino, Aminatou Sow, Allison P. Davis, Nazanin Rafsanjani, Alex Blumberg, and many more. by The Cut

34 min listen

Hello and Welcome to My Bad Dinner Party: Samin Nosrat, Angela Dimayuga, and Carla Lalli Music do their best to help Madeleine Aggeler--the Cut's semi-competent food columnist--throw a dinner party for her friends. by The Cut

36 min listen

A Normal Person Conversation with Sally Rooney: We talked with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations With Friends and Normal People, about why she writes, how she’s smuggled socialism into page turners, the best way to keep her readers hooked, and much more. by The Cut

29 min listen

Call Your Mom by The Cut

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Who Even Was Karl Lagerfeld?: A cartoon, a genius, a man who hated sweatpants... Making sense of one of the greatest fashion designers of all time, with Vanessa Grigoriadis, Carl Swanson, and Cathy Horyn. by The Cut

30 min listen

What Is Sex?: We’re returning to the dawn of sexual knowledge to answer the question: what is sex? by The Cut

37 min listen

Listening to Estrogen: When Lisa Miller's editor came to her with this story idea, she didn't want anything to do with it. But then she started poking around... and wound up spending the next year reporting what she found. On this week's show, the link between menopause and late-onset schizophrenia. by The Cut

32 min listen

23 Weeks, 6 Days: In the fight over later abortions, the political rhetoric is miles away from the lived reality. This week, we tell one woman’s story. by The Cut

29 min listen

Growing Up With Toni Morrison: By the time Toni Morrison died last week, a whole generation of readers had come of age in a world where she was already a legend. So, on this week’s show, we’re talking to women about growing up with Morrison’s books—how they first discovered her work, and what it’s meant to them over the years. Featuring: Brittany Luse, Zoe Haylock, Aminatou Sow, Glory Edim, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Angela Flournoy, and Ashley C. Ford. by The Cut

35 min listen

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