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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.

  • Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon
    Vogue is almost synonymous with its longtime editor, Anna Wintour. She talks with David Remnick about choosing a successor, and wearing Prada to the première of “The Devil Wears Prada.”
  • Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
    Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.
  • Pick Three: Spring Sports News
    The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas on the season’s biggest basketball stories.
  • How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
    Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.
  • A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
    Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it.
  • John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling
    The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist.
  • Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory
    Julio Torres got his big break as a writer on “Saturday Night Live,” and went on to make the cult favorites “Los Espookys” and “Fantasmas” for HBO. He also wrote and directed the film “Problemista,” about a toy designer facing deportation. There’s a particular kind of surrealism to Torres’s humor; “I just don’t think his mind works quite like anyone else’s,” the staff writer Michael Schulman says, comparing Torres to “a guest lecturer at an art school . . . laying out his very particular way of seeing the world.” They met in New York to discuss the unique, synesthetic ideas about color which Torres describes in a new HBO special, “Color Theories,” and to check out a few hues at a nearby dollar store.   Thanks to Home in Heven and Third Avenue Dollar and More.     Further reading: “The Otherworldly Comedy of Julio Torres,” by Michael Shulman   New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop every Tuesday and Friday. Join host David Remnick as he discusses the latest in politics, news, and current events in conversation with political leaders, newsmakers, innovators, New Yorker staff writers, authors, actors, and musicians.
  • Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?
    The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on what regime change in Cuba could look like, and the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ada Ferrer on the vexed history between the U.S. and the island.
  • Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards
    Zhao, a previous Oscar winner, for Best Director, discusses her acclaimed film with Michael Schulman.
  • 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.