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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.

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 Mar 4, 2019
Outstanding, really good podcast!

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 Mar 3, 2019
More Political Propaganda. Disgusting.

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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.

Episode Date
Eric Adams and Donald Trump’s Curious Alliance
Mar 06, 2025
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Mar 03, 2025
Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool
Mar 01, 2025
Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?
Feb 26, 2025
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
Feb 24, 2025
What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?
Feb 22, 2025
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
Feb 20, 2025
The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
Feb 17, 2025
What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
Feb 13, 2025
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
Feb 10, 2025
Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande
Feb 08, 2025
Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?
Feb 06, 2025
Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Feb 03, 2025
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next
Feb 01, 2025
How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Power
Jan 30, 2025
A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week
Jan 25, 2025
David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term
Jan 23, 2025
Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
Jan 18, 2025
How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War
Jan 15, 2025
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Jan 13, 2025
What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech
Jan 10, 2025
Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?
Jan 08, 2025
From Critics at Large: The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome
Jan 03, 2025
Why Banning TikTok Could Violate the First Amendment
Jan 01, 2025
Remembering Jimmy Carter, a “President Out of Time”
Dec 30, 2024
How Henry Kissinger Accumulated and Wielded Power
Dec 27, 2024
We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024
Dec 18, 2024
Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism
Dec 16, 2024
Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero
Dec 11, 2024
Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans
Dec 09, 2024
Is Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Transition Working?
Dec 06, 2024
How the Trump Indictments Backfired
Dec 04, 2024
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
Nov 25, 2024
How to Prepare for Trump 2.0
Nov 23, 2024
What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?
Nov 20, 2024
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
Nov 18, 2024
Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next
Nov 13, 2024
Donald Trump Returns. What Now?
Nov 08, 2024
How Trump Took Back America
Nov 07, 2024
Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos
Nov 04, 2024
Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss
Nov 01, 2024
Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise
Oct 30, 2024
Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats
Oct 28, 2024
The Lies Are Winning
Oct 26, 2024
How Poll Watchers Could Help Trump Challenge the Election Results
Oct 24, 2024
The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
Oct 22, 2024
What Billionaires See in Donald Trump
Oct 19, 2024
How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies
Oct 16, 2024
How Kamala Harris Became a Contender
Oct 15, 2024
What Motivates Kamala Harris?
Oct 12, 2024
What Some Gaza Protest Voters See in Trump
Oct 09, 2024
Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term
Oct 07, 2024
How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin
Oct 05, 2024
Will J. D. Vance’s Debate Victory Matter on Election Day?
Oct 02, 2024
Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
Sep 30, 2024
The Election Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America
Sep 28, 2024
From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge
Sep 25, 2024
Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
Sep 24, 2024
Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?
Sep 18, 2024
Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
Sep 16, 2024
How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway
Sep 14, 2024
Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?
Sep 11, 2024
Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
Sep 09, 2024
Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?
Sep 07, 2024
What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?
Sep 04, 2024
The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America
Sep 02, 2024
How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?
Aug 29, 2024
Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of ‘Hope’ Campaign”
Aug 24, 2024
Unity, Millennial Cringe, And Overwhelming Relief Abound at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Aug 21, 2024
Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?
Aug 19, 2024
What the Harris Campaign Needs to Win, with James Carville and Paul Begala
Aug 17, 2024
Elon Musk’s Pivot from Online Troll to Political Machinator
Aug 14, 2024
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
Aug 12, 2024
The Harris-Walz Reboot
Aug 10, 2024
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict
Aug 05, 2024
Decoding the “Compelling” Attack Ads of the 2024 Campaign
Aug 03, 2024
J. D. Vance’s Rough Rollout and Kamala Harris’s Veepstakes
Jul 31, 2024
From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1
Jul 30, 2024
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency
Jul 29, 2024
Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon?
Jul 26, 2024
The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris
Jul 25, 2024
Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch
Jul 23, 2024
Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma
Jul 20, 2024
A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention
Jul 17, 2024
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
Jul 15, 2024
The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024
Jul 13, 2024
The Case for Using the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Biden
Jul 10, 2024
John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
Jul 08, 2024
From “Inside the Hive”: How Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win
Jul 03, 2024
The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
Jul 01, 2024
What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats?
Jun 29, 2024
What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions
Jun 26, 2024
Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
Jun 24, 2024
What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jun 21, 2024
Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes?
Jun 19, 2024
Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
Jun 17, 2024
Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
Jun 15, 2024
Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border
Jun 13, 2024
Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
Jun 10, 2024
A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump
Jun 08, 2024
What Do We Know About How the World Might End?
Jun 05, 2024
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Jun 04, 2024
A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
May 31, 2024
Sam Altman Dreams of an A.I. Girlfriend
May 29, 2024
How the Reality-TV Industry Mistreats Its Stars
May 27, 2024
Why Vladimir Putin’s Family Is Learning Mandarin
May 25, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Why He’s Running
May 20, 2024
The Most Profoundly Not-Normal Facts About Trump’s 2024 Campaign
May 18, 2024
Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet
May 16, 2024
The TikTok Ban Is “a Vast Overreach, Rooted in Hypocrisy,” Wired’s Katie Drummond says
May 13, 2024
Will Young Americans Tip November’s Election?
May 11, 2024
The Pure Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial
May 09, 2024
Randall Kennedy on Harvard Protests, Antisemitism, and the Meaning of Free Speech
May 06, 2024
Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.– Biden or Trump?
May 04, 2024
Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
May 01, 2024
Georgia’s Secretary of State Prepares for Another Election
Apr 30, 2024
Trump’s “Bonkers” Immunity Claim, with Neal Katyal
Apr 27, 2024
A Student Journalist Explains the Protests at Yale
Apr 24, 2024
Jonathan Haidt on “The Anxious Generation”
Apr 22, 2024
The Morality Play Inside Trump’s Courtroom
Apr 20, 2024
Ronan Farrow on the Scheme at the Heart of Trump’s New York Trial
Apr 17, 2024
A Bipartisan Effort to Carve out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban
Apr 15, 2024
Will an 1864 Abortion Law Doom Trump in Arizona?
Apr 13, 2024
From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November
Apr 11, 2024
What to Expect from Trump’s First Criminal Trial
Apr 10, 2024
The Attack on Black History in Schools
Apr 08, 2024
After the World Central Kitchen Attack, How Far Will Biden Shift on Israel?
Apr 05, 2024
How Should Reporters Cover Donald Trump?
Apr 03, 2024
Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
Apr 01, 2024
Should Big Tech Stop Moderating Content?
Mar 27, 2024
Adam Gopnik on Hitler’s Rise to Power
Mar 25, 2024
The Political Books That Help Us Make Sense of 2024
Mar 23, 2024
Why Robert Hur Described Joe Biden as an “Elderly Man with a Poor Memory”
Mar 22, 2024
Judith Butler on the Global Backlash to L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Mar 18, 2024
How Gaza, Ukraine, and TikTok Are Influencing the Election
Mar 15, 2024
What Biden’s Budget Means for His Reëlection Battle with Trump
Mar 13, 2024
Vinson Cunningham on His New Book, “Great Expectations”
Mar 12, 2024
At the State of the Union, Biden Came Out Swinging
Mar 08, 2024
The Mood at Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday
Mar 07, 2024
Biden Reveals His Thoughts on the 2024 Election
Mar 04, 2024
Why the Primary System Is “Clearly Failing”
Mar 01, 2024
With Navalny’s Death, Putin is Feeling More Confident than Ever
Feb 28, 2024
Ty Cobb on Trump's Admiration for Putin
Feb 26, 2024
Does Impeachment Mean Anything Anymore?
Feb 23, 2024
Why Matt Gaetz Keeps Getting Away with It
Feb 22, 2024
“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Biden’s Accomplishments
Feb 19, 2024
Do Democrats Have a Biden Backup Plan?
Feb 15, 2024
Can Joe Biden Squash Concerns About His Age?
Feb 10, 2024
Why the Trump Ballot Case Is the Ultimate Test of Originalism
Feb 08, 2024
The Last Real Legislative Battle of 2024
Feb 03, 2024