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Ronan Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and contributing writer to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the impact of rulings made this week by Judge Juan Merchan in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he faces thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels around the time of the 2016 election. Farrow explains why two other hush-money payments, made to former Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, are central to the Manhattan District Attorney’s case. As Farrow explains, “the coverup is ultimately a much, much bigger story than any of the underlying things being covered up would have been.”
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The Year in Getting “Chotinered”
Mosab Abu Toha’s Harrowing Detention in Gaza
How the American Right Came to Love Putin
Masha Gessen on the Holocaust, Israel, and the Politics of Memory
Liz Cheney: Donald Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted
Why Are House Republicans Leaving Congress?
The Post-Civil War Precedent for the Trump Trials
How Did Our Democracy Get so Fragile?
How Henry Kissinger Conquered Washington
Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence
What Draws Latino Voters to Trump
A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
Trump’s Vindictive Second-Term Agenda
We've Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far)
Will the Government Rein in Amazon?
The Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election
Inside the Democratic Party’s Rift Over Israel and Gaza
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
Clarence Thomas’s R.V. Loan and Supreme Court Scrutiny
Tim Scott, and the Republican Party’s Vexed Relationship with Race
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