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.

  • Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the decline in public trust and questions about the Court’s ethical code, and how Justices get along in a very partisan era.
  • Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington
    The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance.
  • The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
    Two leading political scientists explain why voters failed to defend democracy: We never do.
  • Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
    Gold, a celebrated Shakespeare director, designed his theatre production for a young audience. “It’s loud. I’m willing to hear the complaints, because I have risk tolerance,” he said.
  • Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future
    David Remnick joins Evan Osnos, Jane Mayer, and Susan Glasser to explain how Trump won the race, and what his rhetoric of vengeance and retribution portends for his return to power.
  • Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now
    The MSNBC host says that Trump’s authoritarian message is timeless. “You can sell [it] to people who are in great need of relief,” she says. “But you can also sell it to billionaires.”
  • Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos
    Once a top Republican in Congress, and now a supporter of Kamala Harris, Cheney cancelled her subscription to the Washington Post after Bezos blocked its endorsement: “It’s a disgrace.”
  • How Alpha Kappa Alpha Shaped Kamala Harris; Plus, Bill T. Jones
    Jazmine Hughes considers the nation’s oldest Black sorority and its most famous sister. And the choreographer talks about a new performance of his classic “Still/Here.”
  • Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats
    The “Breakfast Club” co-host talks with David Remnick about Black voters, his recent interview with the Vice-President, and why the Democratic Party needs a lot more “Bulworth.”
  • The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
    Alexis McGill Johnson discusses lobbying for a Democratic “trifecta” in Washington—and what a second Trump Administration would do on abortion rights in America.
  • With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story
    A concept album based on a 1979 gang film is no big stretch for the creator of “Hamilton,” a rap musical based on a biography of a Founding Father.
  • Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years
    The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his three-song EP. “I was getting a lot of positive feedback for having heartache . . . maybe I’m pressing the bruise.”
  • The Astonishing Rise—and Uncertain Odds—of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign
    Though historically unpopular as a Vice-President, Harris unified the Democratic Party around her. Evan Osnos reports on her emergence as a contender for the White House.
  • Brian Jordan Alvarez on “English Teacher”
    The actor and showrunner talks with Vinson Cunningham about his new comedy whose main character is a gay English teacher in Texas, and what he learned on the set of “Will & Grace.”
  • Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term
    A second Trump Administration would be “dramatically more managerial and practical,” the former Speaker of the House claims. Trump “has a much deeper grasp of what has to be done.”
  • Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?
    A co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement tells the staff writer Andrew Marantz why Muslim voters in Michigan are turning in droves to Jill Stein—and Donald Trump.
  • Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
    Gabriel Sherman on “The Apprentice,” his coming-of-age film about Trump. There are “parts of the film that I could imagine Donald Trump liking,” Sherman says.
  • Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
    The historian has travelled extensively in Ukraine, and discusses the lessons Ukrainians can teach America about freedom.
  • Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?
    The Republican strategist Sarah Longwell explains what she’s hearing in focus groups from swing-state voters, and those who’ve “flipped” between Democratic and Republican candidates.
  • Lake Street Dive Performs in the Studio
    Ahead of their show at Madison Square Garden, one of rock’s most interesting bands talks songwriting with David Remnick, and plays some of their songs.