Press Play with Madeleine Brand Podcast
1) Nancy Pelosi to retire after nearly four decades in Congress
Plus, how New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani might transform the city, our weekly film reviews, and Evan Kleiman’s stuffed pumpkin recipes.
2) How famed war photographer Lynsey Addario balances work, home life
Plus, California voters approve a plan to redraw the state’s Congressional map, campaigning against trans rights backfires for Republican gubernatorial candidates, and the photography of Sister ...Show More
3) Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen: Presidential assassin ‘less calculating than Tom’
Plus, President Trump claims the War Powers Resolution doesn't apply to strikes against alleged drug cartel members in the Caribbean, how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined executive power, and Obam...Show More
4) ‘Dodgers stand tall,’ win back-to-back World Series titles
Plus, President Trump’s tariffs go before the Supreme Court, a new book details the history of abortion pills, and 90s R&B stars Brandy and Monica headline a tour coming to Inglewood this weeken...Show More
5) 42 million may lose SNAP benefits. This CA mayor is one of them
Plus, the Dodgers are on the brink of elimination in the World Series, our film critics review a satirical take on Dracula ahead of Halloween, and Evan Kleiman has a decadent dessert for the holiday s...Show More
6) Why child sex trafficking exploded on Figueroa in South LA
Plus, warnings about President Trump’s tariffs come to fruition for consumers, making sense of the latest protein craze, and why HBO’s Task is a rare TV show that gets working class Americ...Show More
7) Why AI data centers are the ‘new American factory’
Plus, Los Angeles plans to spend $2.3 million to build an iron fence around MacArthur Park. The Hammer Museum is back with its biennial Made in LA exhibition. And celebrity gossip website TMZ turns 20...Show More
8) Nigerian musician, activist Fela Kuti believed ‘music could topple a government'
Plus, a multimillion dollar donation from a Trump benefactor to pay troops during the shutdown, UCLA makes a proposed $1.2 billion settlement with the Trump administration public, and sports betting i...Show More
9) The ‘vague, ambitious’ new phase of the Gaza ceasefire
Plus, the future of U.S.-Japan relations under new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, our film critics review the new Bruce Springsteen biopic, and Evan Kleiman schools us on the history and delicacy of d...Show More
10) Toppled Confederate statues transformed, reimagined as art in ‘Monuments’
Plus, the immigration judges who actually work for the Department of Justice. The government shutdown could soon affect federal food assistance and Covered California. And the future of male birth con...Show More