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kanshefle
Apr 13, 2024
informative, well spoken hosts with good chemistry
Apr 8, 2021
More "both sides are bad" centrist horseshit
Alejandro
Dec 12, 2020
Insightful journalism.
Joe DaSilva
Mar 4, 2019
Outstanding, really good podcast!
awake
Mar 3, 2019
More Political Propaganda. Disgusting.
Wesley boz
Jul 22, 2018
no yelling, no name calling, just insightful, thoughtful reporting. Worth a listen.
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Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt goes deep on a consequential political story via far-reaching interviews with staff writers and outside experts. And, on Fridays, the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the latest developments in Washington and beyond, offering an encompassing understanding of this moment in American politics.
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Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE.
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Donald Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Why the Tech Giant Nvidia Owns the Future
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Donald Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job.
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Eric Adams and Donald Trump’s Curious Alliance
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Power
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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From Critics at Large: The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Why Banning TikTok Could Violate the First Amendment
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Remembering Jimmy Carter, a “President Out of Time”
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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How Henry Kissinger Accumulated and Wielded Power
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Is Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Transition Working?
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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How the Trump Indictments Backfired
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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How to Prepare for Trump 2.0
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Donald Trump Returns. What Now?
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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How Trump Took Back America
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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The Lies Are Winning
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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How Poll Watchers Could Help Trump Challenge the Election Results
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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What Billionaires See in Donald Trump
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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How Kamala Harris Became a Contender
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What Motivates Kamala Harris?
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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What Some Gaza Protest Voters See in Trump
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Will J. D. Vance’s Debate Victory Matter on Election Day?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The Election Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of ‘Hope’ Campaign”
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Unity, Millennial Cringe, And Overwhelming Relief Abound at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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What the Harris Campaign Needs to Win, with James Carville and Paul Begala
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Elon Musk’s Pivot from Online Troll to Political Machinator
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Harris-Walz Reboot
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Decoding the “Compelling” Attack Ads of the 2024 Campaign
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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J. D. Vance’s Rough Rollout and Kamala Harris’s Veepstakes
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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The Case for Using the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Biden
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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From “Inside the Hive”: How Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats?
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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What Do We Know About How the World Might End?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
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May 31, 2024 |
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Sam Altman Dreams of an A.I. Girlfriend
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May 29, 2024 |
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How the Reality-TV Industry Mistreats Its Stars
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May 27, 2024 |
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Why Vladimir Putin’s Family Is Learning Mandarin
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May 25, 2024 |
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Why He’s Running
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May 20, 2024 |
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The Most Profoundly Not-Normal Facts About Trump’s 2024 Campaign
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May 18, 2024 |
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Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet
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May 16, 2024 |
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The TikTok Ban Is “a Vast Overreach, Rooted in Hypocrisy,” Wired’s Katie Drummond says
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May 13, 2024 |
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Will Young Americans Tip November’s Election?
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May 11, 2024 |
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The Pure Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial
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May 09, 2024 |
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Randall Kennedy on Harvard Protests, Antisemitism, and the Meaning of Free Speech
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May 06, 2024 |
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Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.– Biden or Trump?
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May 04, 2024 |
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Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Georgia’s Secretary of State Prepares for Another Election
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Trump’s “Bonkers” Immunity Claim, with Neal Katyal
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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A Student Journalist Explains the Protests at Yale
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Jonathan Haidt on “The Anxious Generation”
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The Morality Play Inside Trump’s Courtroom
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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A Bipartisan Effort to Carve out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Will an 1864 Abortion Law Doom Trump in Arizona?
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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What to Expect from Trump’s First Criminal Trial
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Attack on Black History in Schools
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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After the World Central Kitchen Attack, How Far Will Biden Shift on Israel?
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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How Should Reporters Cover Donald Trump?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Should Big Tech Stop Moderating Content?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Adam Gopnik on Hitler’s Rise to Power
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Mar 25, 2024 |