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Bill Browder: Putin’s Public Enemy No. 1 Apr 02, 2019

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Bill Browder is a whistleblower against the most powerful and richest thug on the planet: Russian President Vladimir Putin. In response, the Kremlin has expelled and convicted him twice in absentia on trumped-up charges. Browder, a financier who made a fortune in Russia, talks with Tina about going after Putin and other corrupt Russian officials and avenging the murder of his lawyer by successfully lobbying Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act.

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Amber Tamblyn’s Time Is Now Mar 26, 2019

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Author, actress and activist Amber Tamblyn talks with Tina about creepy men in Hollywood, how motherhood put her activism into overdrive, and what it was like seeing Harvey Weinstein stare down New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor in a recent courtroom hearing.

Amber Tamblyn's new book:

Amber Tamblyn Breaks a Cycle of Abuse With Era of Ignition

A Highlight from the Interview:

ON THE PODCAST, TINA DISCUSSES WITH AMBER TAMBLYN BEING IN THE COURTROOM WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN:

Tina: Did he look in your direction at all?

Amber: He made eye contact with a few people. The person he looked the hardest at was who we know very well was sitting right across from us. As he walked down, he just stared at Jodi Kantor. That's who he stared at.

Tina: At Jodi Kantor, The New York Times journalist who broke the story.

Amber: Jodi Kantor blew him a kiss with her eyes.

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Preet Bharara: Nothing but the Truth Mar 19, 2019

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The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York talks with Tina about why he doesn’t feel sorry for Paul Manafort, why the superrich risk it all and break the law and how to make a mobster flip.

Hanging Out with Rosamund Pike Mar 12, 2019

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The Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actress talks with Tina about portraying two legendary Maries—war correspondent Marie Colvin and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, being a working mum and why she would never move to LA.

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Alyssa Mastromonaco West Wings It Mar 08, 2019

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Alyssa Mastromonaco, President Obama’s one-time deputy chief of staff, tells Tina who would win a dance-off between Michelle Obama and Susan Rice, and why Trump’s unexplained Executive Time is bad news for his staff and for America. Plus, an update on her cats.

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Topeka Sam Unshackled Mar 05, 2019

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Why are more and more women in the United States being incarcerated? Justice warrior Topeka Sam, who served three years in a federal prison, has vowed that losing freedom should not also mean losing dignity.

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Hillary Clinton's 2020 Vision Feb 26, 2019

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In a reflective interview, Hillary Clinton tells Tina Brown: “Even in the last month, we've seen the kind of attacks on the four women running (for president) for all kinds of different things and certain words like 'likable.' There are a lot of men who are really unlikable who get themselves elected to very high positions.”

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David Remnick: Media Prince Feb 19, 2019

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The New Yorker has had just five editors in its 94-year history. Editor #5 David Remnick and editor #4 Tina Brown discuss New Yorker stories, journalism’s existential crisis, and the time they thought an Easter parade was a protest march against the magazine.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy on the New World Disorder Feb 12, 2019

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, a passionate defender of liberty and democracy, joins Tina to talk about his new book “The Empire and the Five Kings” and why it’s not too late for the empire in question, America, to recover its “moxie” and fulfill its destiny.

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Vanita Gupta: The Firebrand Who Duels with Trump Over Civil Rights Feb 05, 2019

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Vanita Gupta, the daughter of Indian immigrants, is a legal rockstar who ran the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department under President Obama and is now head of the largest and most powerful civil rights group in the country. Gupta talks with Tina about policing police departments, the Department of Justice under Trump, and going into battle for civil rights every day.

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