# Jake Kaplan

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Trump Blocked: Slush Fund & Kennedy Center

A federal judge has blocked Trump’s efforts to add his own name to the Kennedy Center, a performing arts institution that honors the legacy of President John F. Kennedy. In this excerpt from the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the court’s legal reasoning and larger takeawa…

Violets

For over two thousand years, violets have been a shared language between women. In this episode, we follow a thread from Sappho's pen, through Parisian salons and art circles, to Broadway. And we ask how love finds a way to exist when the world insists it can't. Executive Producer, Writer & Host: N…

Iran, Bolton, Pulte & Blanche (with Ben Wittes)

The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution halting U.S. military action against Iran. In this excerpt from the Insider podcast, Ben Wittes joins Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance to discuss its legal and political significance. Wittes is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lawfare an…

Trump Picks a New Director of National Intelligence

President Trump nominated Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to be the new Director of National Intelligence after facing bipartisan backlash over his initial pick of Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte. In this excerpt from the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss…

SCOTUS is Making It Harder to Fight for Your Rights (with Steve Vladeck)

As the Supreme Court term nears its end, the justices are releasing some of the most highly anticipated decisions. In this excerpt from the Insider podcast, Supreme Court expert Steve Vladeck joins Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance to discuss Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, a case with i…

The Rose

The rose is the most symbolically overloaded flower in human history, precisely because it exceeds every meaning humans try to give it. In this episode, we follow one of the largest and yet perhaps lesser known through lines of the rose, across Greek epigrams, Persian mysticism, and postwar Japan. …

Flowerotica: The Orchid

In the second episode of Flowerotica we track the orchid, and a floral biology so precise that it can replicate female arousal at the molecular level. From ancient Greece to Victorian greenhouses, landing in a domestic garden in Melbourne, this is a flower that has been running the same naturally s…

Flowerotica: Tuberose

A flower that every culture has tried to contain and instead, it gets louder. In the third episode of Flowerotica, we're following tuberose. Commonly mistaken for jasmine, but this one doesn't seduce so lightly. Banned from Victorian bedrooms, named after courtesans, and bottled as an unrequited de…

Flowerotica: The Lotus

Reach into a lotus and it is the temperature of a body. It heats itself, holds insects inside overnight, and lets them go in the morning carrying its traces to somebody else. Flowerotica closes with the flower we all agreed was about purity, and a twelfth-century poem in which a god begs a woman to…