The Old Guard

The musicians in the orchestra for Phantom of the Opera tell reporter Jay Caspian Kang about what it’s like to play the exact same music every single night—for decades—and how they’ve learned to make their peace with it. (22 minutes)

A strongman gets hired to take over the Amsterdam Fire Department.

Kelefa Sanneh sits in on one of Starbucks’ anti-racial bias classes.

Producer Chana Joffe-Walt talks to a seventh grader who doesn’t have a seventh grade, or an eighth grade. (11 minutes)

As the school year moved forward, the fundraising committee planned a gala at the French Embassy.

In just one year, everything in one ordinary public middle school changed.