WNYC Studios and The New YorkerArts, News, Books, Politics
WNYC Studios and The New YorkerArts, News, Books, Politics
WNYC Studios and The New YorkerArts, News, Books, Politics
WNYC Studios and The New YorkerArts, News, Books, Politics

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Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

  • Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus
    After a lifetime spent studying Christianity, the scholar and best-selling author talks with David Remnick about why there’s still controversy over the religion’s foundational texts.
  • Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
    The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, the Connecticut Democrat says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.”
  • A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
    Soon after October 7th, Hisham Awartani and two Palestinian friends were shot on the street in Vermont. At home in the West Bank, he contemplates the prospect of Israeli annexation.
  • Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job
    The CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent talks with the guest host Clare Malone about covering the Trump Administrations—and how Trump’s circle isn’t as hostile as it seems.
  • We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
    Federal employees share what life is like under DOGE cuts, and why they’re speaking out. Plus, the novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story, which eventually became a hit film.
  • Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
    Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.
  • How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
    The former senator faces prison time for accepting bribes in cash and gold, and for related crimes. Then he made a thinly veiled plea to the President he had once voted to impeach.
  • What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
    The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine.
  • Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
    The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.
  • Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
    The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.
  • Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
    Oscar who? The film critic—a true believer in the art of cinema—picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: The Brodys.
  • John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
    The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.
  • Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive
    The staff writer and the cartoonist share their picks from the archive—an essay by Joan Didion, and a caveman cartoon by George Booth—to celebrate The New Yorker’s centennial.
  • The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
    Anthony Romero, the head of the A.C.L.U., says that the United States is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.”
  • “No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
    Two of the filmmakers, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, discuss the challenges and the threat of violence they faced making a film about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
  • Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
    The staff writer Jelani Cobb talks about the Trump Administration’s attempts to root out policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion—which it describes as discriminatory.
  • The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
    The New Yorker editors Deborah Treisman and Kevin Young discuss literary anthologies published for the magazine’s centennial.
  • Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
    The Microsoft co-founder and public-health philanthropist discusses the future of A.I., vaccine skepticism, and the politics of technology in 2025.
  • Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
    The longtime staff writer Dana Goodyear talks about the devastation of the wildfires that devastated her house and thousands of other buildings in the Los Angeles area.
  • How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
    The New Yorker editor Susan Morrison on Lorne Michaels, the producer who still runs “S.N.L.” with an iron hand. Plus, Tina Fey reads The New Yorker’s review of the show from Season 1.