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.

  • Social Media Goes to Court
    Jonathan Haidt, the author of “The Anxious Generation,” discusses the movement to limit social-media use among young people, including a major liability case in the California courts.
  • Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead
    The director talks with staff writer Jelani Cobb about his movie, which has been nominated for a record-setting sixteen Academy Awards.
  • The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
    As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world.
  • Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”
    The creators of the financial drama, Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, explain what “finance bros” misunderstand about capitalism’s allure.
  • What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran
    The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the U.S. to pursue regime change in Iran again. And we hear from Iranians who are waiting, even hoping, for war.
  • The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction
    Dhruv Khullar on the latest research on GLP-1 drugs, which, typically used to manage diabetes and obesity, are showing promise as groundbreaking treatments for addictions of all kinds.
  • Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars
    The hit podcaster and host of next month’s Academy Awards ceremony on the collapse of late-night television, and the deaths of his friends Rob and Michele Reiner.
  • Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
    The New Yorker critics Richard Brody and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the year’s best offerings, and how films seem to be getting better these days.
  • What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein
    The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on what Trump told the Miami police, and how the latest batch of files from the D.O.J. “makes the public more distrustful.”
  • Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right
    A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration.
  • Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement
    The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.
  • The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump
    The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated.
  • How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News
    The staff writer Clare Malone discusses her reporting on the new head of CBS News, who made her name as a crusader against “woke” thinking.
  • How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA
    Jason Zengerle, the author of “Hated by All the Right People,” describes how an inside-the-Beltway journalist brought far-right extremism to the mainstream of American politics.
  • How Betting Took Over Sports
    The reporter Danny Funt discusses his new book, “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.”
  • With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
    A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent.
  • Does Every Marriage Need a Prenup?
    The staff writer Jennifer Wilson explores why prenuptial agreements have boomed in popularity among millennial and Gen Z couples.
  • Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism
    The historian Daniel Immerwahr says Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”
  • Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino
    The star discusses some of her demanding roles from decades of filmmaking.
  • Salsa Star Rubén Blades on Acting, Politics, and the Power of Music
    The singer recounts his unlikely journey from a record-company mailroom to the top of the salsa charts.