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“We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and a Short History of Movies about the Internet from 2022-04-18T12:00
The Internet can be a scary place in real life, and far more so in Jane Schoenbrun’s film “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” which premièred at the Sundance Film Festival last year and...
ListenHow Biden Stumbled on Immigration Reform from 2022-04-15T12:00
This month, the C.D.C. announced plans to end Title 42, a public-health order, issued by the Trump Administration at the start of Listen
Anita Hill and Jane Mayer on Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the State of the Supreme Court from 2022-04-11T12:00
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been voted in as a Supreme Court Justice—the first Black woman to serve in that role. But, to reach this milestone, Jackson has faced enormous hurdles at every tu...
ListenCan Genocide Be Prevented? from 2022-04-07T12:00
Last week, Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Ukrainians returning to the city discovered Listen
Investigating January 6th from 2022-04-04T12:00
With a judge declaring that Donald Trump “more likely than not” committed a felony in his attempt to overturn the Presidential election, the congressional committee investigating January 6...
ListenAn Ivy League Student Accused of Lying About Her Past from 2022-04-01T12:00
Mackenzie Fiercetongrew up in a middle-class suburb of St. Louis. He...
ListenJill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War from 2022-03-28T12:00
A wave of book bannings sweeping the country, along with conservative fury over titles like “Antiracist Baby,” seems like a backlash against the heightened racial consciousness of the post...
ListenThe Good News About Renewable Energy from 2022-03-24T12:00
Historically, the high cost of renewables has been one of the greatest hurdles in breaking our dependency on oil and gas. But recent research indicates that advances in renewable-energy pr...
ListenRadio Ukraine from 2022-03-21T12:00
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and ...
ListenHow Do We Know When Someone Is a Spy? from 2022-03-17T12:00
In 2019, Franklin Tao, a professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, was arrested on suspicion of spying for the Chinese government. Tao’s case was the first under a program called...
ListenStephen Kotkin: Don’t Blame the West for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine from 2022-03-14T12:00
It’s impossible to understand the destruction and death that Vladimir Putin is unleashing in Ukraine without understanding his most basic conviction: that the breakup of the Soviet empire ...
ListenThe West Wages Economic War on Russia from 2022-03-10T12:00
Facing enormous pressure to respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine...
ListenIgor Novikov on Standing His Ground in Ukraine from 2022-03-07T12:00
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged as a potent and savvy communicator during the Russian invasion of his country. Hi...
ListenWhat Does China Think of Putin’s War? from 2022-03-03T12:00
In the week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States and the European Union have effectively cut off Russia from the international banking system, frozen Russian assets abr...
ListenHollywood’s Fraught History with Black Audiences from 2022-02-28T12:00
There has been an explosion of popular and acclaimed work from Black creators on film and television in recent years. This is no fluke—it’s the latest instance in a pattern that has repeat...
ListenHow Should President Biden Respond to Putin’s War? from 2022-02-24T12:00
Since last summer, Russian troops have been amassing on the Ukrainian border, and, in recent weeks, President Vladimir Putin warned that he intended a military takeover of Ukraine. This we...
ListenAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Path Forward for the Left from 2022-02-21T12:00
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prominent progressives in Washington. Her political ascent began with her shocking 2018 defeat of a longtime incumbent in a New York district th...
ListenWhat Putin Is Really After in Ukraine from 2022-02-17T12:00
Since last summer, Russia has been heavily building up its military forces on Listen
Free Speech in Comedy Clubs and on Campus from 2022-02-14T12:00
The author William Deresiewicz, who formerly taught English at Yale University, describes what he sees as essential threats to free speech—and ultimately to the p...
ListenWhat the Beijing Olympics Reveal About China from 2022-02-10T12:00
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are often referred to as China’s “coming-out party”—presenting China to foreign visitors as a political, economic, and cultural superpower, committed to...
ListenBlack Thought Takes the Stage from 2022-02-07T12:00
Tariq Trotter, best known in music as Black Thought, the emcee of the Roots, is regarded by many hip-hop fans as one of the best freestyle rappers ever. His work changed shape when the Roo...
ListenThe Joe Rogan Controversy and Spotify’s Stranglehold on the Music Industry from 2022-02-03T12:00
Earlier this week, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other artists removed their work from Spotify, protesting the company’s relationship with Joe Rogan, a podcaster who has broadcast misinfor...
ListenRussia’s Intentions in Ukraine—and America from 2022-01-31T12:00
“They push buttons,” says Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale. “What button of ours are they pushing here? What are they trying to get us to do?” Vladimir Putin is ...
ListenDoes America Still Trust the Supreme Court? from 2022-01-27T12:00
Supreme Court Justices often portray themselves as beyond the reach of partisan politics, but it’s increasingly hard to make that argument: recall the fights over the nominations of Merric...
ListenThe Olympic Games Return to China, in a Changed World from 2022-01-24T12:00
Much has changed since China last hosted the Olympics, during the 2008 Summer Games. Those Games were widely seen as greatly improving China’s international reputation. But the 2022 Winter...
ListenCan “Partygate” Bring Down Boris Johnson? from 2022-01-21T12:00
Late last year, the British press reported that, at the height of the COVID lockdowns in the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson and members of his staff Listen
The Biden Presidency, Year One from 2022-01-17T12:00
President Biden took the oath of office in a moment of deep crisis—the pandemic in full swing and just weeks after an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election by violence. Merely a r...
ListenCan Biden Revive Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Vision of Voting Rights? from 2022-01-14T12:00
Since the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, nineteen states have passed laws that restrict access to voting. Two bills currently before Congress could overturn some of those laws, ...
ListenA New Civil War in America? from 2022-01-10T12:00
When rioters, encouraged by the President, stormed the Capitol, one year ago, to overturn the results of the election, the idea that such a thing could play out in America was stunning. Bu...
ListenThe Great Resignation and the New Office Politics from 2022-01-06T12:00
This week, the U.S. Labor Department reported that 4.5 million people left their jobs in November—the most since the government began collecting data, two decades ago. A major reason is th...
ListenAmanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration from 2022-01-03T12:00
One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President. Gorman was just twenty-two years old, and it was just two weeks after Trump supporters ...
ListenYear-End Special: Don’t Despair from 2021-12-23T12:00
The year 2021 has seemed like a cavalcade of disasters, from the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th through the resurgence of COVID-19. Calamities are catnip for the media, but the ...
ListenWhen Snow Came to San Juan from 2021-12-20T12:00
For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. Children in San Juan rode a sled and had a giant snowball fight in the tropical weather....
ListenWill the Mark Meadows Revelations Change the January 6th Investigation? from 2021-12-16T12:00
On January 6th,as rioters attacked the United States Capitol, many people attempted to communicate wi...
ListenMillennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair from 2021-12-13T12:00
The eldest millennials turned forty this year, and the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele
Lina Khan vs. Big Tech from 2021-12-09T12:00
Lina Khan first became known for a 2017 article she wrote for the Yale Law Journal, called "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox." Then a twenty-seven-year-old law...
ListenThe Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi from 2021-12-06T12:00
The Supreme Court last week heard Listen
How to Respond to the Omicron Variant from 2021-12-02T12:00
Rachel Held Evans and Her Legacy from 2021-11-29T12:00
Growing up, Rachel Held Evans was a fiercely enthusiastic evangelizer for her faith, the kind of kid who relished the chance to sit next to an atheist. But when she experienced doubt, that...
ListenMexican Abortion Activists Mobilize to Aid Texans from 2021-11-22T12:00
Mexico is a deeply Catholic nation where abortion was, for a long time, criminalized in many states; just a few years ago, Coahuila, near the U.S. border, imposed jail time on women who un...
ListenBritney Spears, Free from the Conservatorship, but Not from the Public Eye from 2021-11-18T12:00
This month, Britney Spears was Listen
The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis from 2021-11-15T12:00
After storms and other climate disasters, legions of workers appear overnight to cover blown-out buildings with construction tarps, rip out ruined walls and floors, and start putting citie...
ListenPolitics and Justice at the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial from 2021-11-11T12:00
In August, 2020, during a period of civil unrest after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the seventeen-year-old Listen
Will the Office Survive the Pandemic? from 2021-11-08T12:00
Cal Newport, the author of “A World without Email” and other books, has been writing about how the shutdown ha...
ListenWas Last Week Really So Bad for the Democrats? from 2021-11-04T12:00
This week, the Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated the Democrat Terry McAuliffe to become <...
ListenThe Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook from 2021-11-01T12:00
The roughly ten thousand company documents that make up the Facebook Papers show a company in turmoil—and one that prioritizes its economic interests over known harms to public interest. A...
ListenIs the Virginia Governor’s Race a Preview of the 2022 Midterms? from 2021-10-28T12:00
Next Tuesday, Virginia voters will go to the polls to elect a new governor, choosing between the Democrat Listen
How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over from 2021-10-25T12:00
In the summer, Shabana Basij-Rasikh Listen
The Complicated Legacy of Colin Powell from 2021-10-21T12:00
Jon Stewart: “That’s Not Cancel Culture” from 2021-10-18T12:00
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” defined an era. For more than sixteen years, Stewart and his many correspondents skewered American politics. At the Listen
The U.K.’s “Funkapolitan” Conservative Party Struggles with the Effects of Brexit and the Pandemic from 2021-10-14T12:00
The United Kingdom officially withdrew from the European Union on January 31, 2020. On that day, the first case...
ListenAttorney General Merrick Garland, Interviewed by Jane Mayer from 2021-10-11T12:00
At the 2021 New Yorker Festival, the investigative journalist Listen
How Many Scandals Can Facebook Survive? from 2021-10-07T12:00
Last month, the Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of reports called “The Facebook Files.” Based on leaked internal documents, th...
ListenJonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads” from 2021-10-04T12:00
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, just as the America of that moment seeme...
ListenRecurring Nightmares on Rikers Island from 2021-09-30T12:00
The first jail on Rikers Island opened in 1932, and the complex has since expanded to include ten jails holding thousands of inmates every day. Violence among Rikers inmates is common, and...
ListenAndreas Malm on the Environmental Movement and “Intelligent Sabotage” from 2021-09-27T12:00
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. With the United Nations climate meeting ...
ListenBiden’s Big Economic Gamble from 2021-09-23T12:00
Even before his election, Joe Biden described the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic a...
ListenJelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism from 2021-09-20T12:00
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate what had happened. This seem...
ListenAmerican Rage from 2021-09-16T12:00
Over the past year, public meetings have become scenes of chaos. Debates about the results of the 2020 election, race, abortion, voting access, and the COVID-19 v...
ListenWhat’s the Future of the Taliban? from 2021-09-13T12:00
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan began less than three weeks after the September 11th attacks, and forces finally withdrew just weeks before the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The Taliban ...
ListenIn Texas, a Cruel and Ingenious Plan to Sidestep Roe v. Wade from 2021-09-09T12:00
Texas Senate Bill 8, known as the “Texas Heartbeat Act,” allows private citizens in Texas to sue anyone who aids in an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law effectively Listen
The Child Tax Credit: One Small Step Toward Universal Basic Income? from 2021-09-06T12:00
The child tax credit, received by more than thirty-five million families, isn’t entirely new. But the way it’s distributed is almost a revolution in American politics: instead of showing u...
ListenWill Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Be a Haven for Terrorism? from 2021-09-03T12:00
Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction from 2021-08-30T12:00
One of the premier writers of thinky sci-fi, Kim Stanley Robinson opened his book “The Ministry for the Future” with an all too plausible scenario: a lethal heat wave descends on India, wi...
ListenJiayang Fan on Navigating Her Mother’s Illness While Becoming a Target for Chinese Nationalists from 2021-08-26T12:00
Jiayang Fan immigrated to the United States from China at age seven. Her mother, who had been a doctor, cleaned houses in Listen
Dexter Filkins on the Fall of Afghanistan from 2021-08-23T12:00
Dexter Filkins covered the American invasion of Afghanistan when he was a reporter for the New...
ListenTrying to Save U.S. Allies in Afghanistan from 2021-08-19T12:00
Twelve years ago, David Rohde, then a reporter for the New York Times, was kidnapped by ...
ListenA Progressive Parent Confronts Segregated Schooling from 2021-08-16T12:00
As a new arrival in Oakland, California, Courtney Martin wondered why there were no white kids on the playground of her nearby elementary school. That school, other white parents told her ...
ListenThe “Unequivocal” Human Effect on the Climate from 2021-08-12T12:00
This week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Listen
Atul Gawande Discusses the COVID-19 Resurgence from 2021-08-09T16:00
For a few brief moments this summer, in places where the vaccination rate was high, we could imagine life after COVID-19: restaurants and theatres were filling up, gatherings of all kinds ...
ListenHow Arizona Became Ground Zero for Conservative Disinformation About Voter Fraud from 2021-08-05T12:00
After Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020, Donald Trump began complaining, contrary to fact, that voter fraud took place there and across the country, stealing the election from him. Four audits...
ListenJohn Kerry on the Battle Against Climate Change from 2021-08-02T12:00
With the world overheating, glaciers melting, and landscapes in flames, it’s difficult to think of a harder or more important job than John Kerry’s. The former senator and Secretary of Sta...
ListenCan “Alternative Facts” Survive the January 6th Investigation? from 2021-07-29T12:00
In the immediate aftermath of January 6th, politicians from both parties vilified the mo...
ListenEric Adams Talks with David Remnick from 2021-07-25T12:00
The New York City mayoral primary, which culminated in a vote held in June, was full of surprises, including the introduction of ranked-choice voting to a confused electorate, and the pres...
ListenA Former Olympian Discusses the Tribulations of Tokyo 2020 from 2021-07-22T12:00
The opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, is scheduled for Friday. With COVID{:.small}-1...
ListenAfghanistan’s Only All-Girls Boarding School Fears for the Return of the Taliban from 2021-07-19T12:00
Since the U.S. withdrawal began, Taliban forces have re-captured more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s districts. Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder of <...
ListenTough Tests in Cuba and Haiti for Biden’s Foreign Policy from 2021-07-15T12:00
This week, protests erupted in cities and towns across Cuba as peop...
ListenRonan Farrow and Jia Tolentino on Britney Spears’s Conservatorship from 2021-07-12T12:00
Britney Spears has been one of the world’s most prominent pop stars since her début, in the late nineteen-nineties. But, since 2008, she’s been under a court-ordered conservatorship—a form...
ListenThe Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height from 2021-07-05T12:00
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a city. Buoyed by money from Oklahoma’s oil boom, it w...
ListenThe New Culture Wars Over American History from 2021-07-02T12:00
The Unhoused House Sitters of Los Angeles from 2021-06-28T12:00
More than half a million people in America today lack housing. Some sixty-six thousand live in Los Angeles County alone. Among them is Augustus Evans, whose desire for steady work was thwa...
ListenStonewall Manchin from 2021-06-24T12:00
Over the first five months of Biden's presidency, with the Democrats holding the slimmest possible majority in the Senate, President Biden has consistently run into the resistance of one m...
ListenNaftali Bennett and the New Hard Line in Israeli Politics from 2021-06-21T12:00
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. He wro...
ListenMerrick Garland's Impossible Job from 2021-06-17T12:00
Merrick Garland made his legal reputation as a temperate moderate dedicated to keeping politics out of the justice ...
ListenA Rift over Racism Divides the Southern Baptist Convention from 2021-06-14T12:00
Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention will hold its annual meeting. It’s the largest Protestant denomination in the country, and, as the group gathers to elect a new president, it is ...
ListenNaomi Osaka and the Rights of Professional Athletes from 2021-06-11T12:00
Last month, Naomi Osaka, the second-ran...
ListenThe Early Days of ACT-UP, and Its Lessons for Today’s Activists from 2021-06-07T12:00
Sarah Schulman is a novelist and playwright as well as a well-known activist and documentarian. She was an early member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and, for twenty years, she a...
ListenBiden’s Plan to Reshape the American Economy from 2021-06-04T12:00
A semblance of pre-pandemic life has resumed across the country, but the economic signs are mixed, even after the strong jobs report for May. Supply chains are bottlenecked, unemployment i...
ListenHow Will the Biden Administration Deliver on Racial Justice? from 2021-05-31T12:00
Joe Biden has spoken clearly about the reality of systemic racism in America, and he’s said that racial justice would be a defining element of his Presidency. Such a statement would have b...
ListenThe Democratic Party, Reimagined by Young Progressives from 2021-05-27T12:00
Over the past four years, progressive insurgents have defeated moderate incumbents in Democratic primaries across the country. These politicians have aggressively pursued policies such as ...
ListenCan We Finally End School Segregation? from 2021-05-26T12:00
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiet...
ListenA Predictable yet Shocking Eruption of Violence in Israel from 2021-05-20T12:00
Following seven years of relative peace, violence has erupted in Isr...
ListenJoe Biden Wants to Be Like Roosevelt. But Can He Get the Votes? from 2021-05-17T12:00
When, on the campaign trail, Joe Biden compared his platform to the New Deal—and, by extension, himself to F.D.R.—who really believed him? Certainly not the left of his party. For a genera...
ListenLiz Cheney’s Thought Crime from 2021-05-13T12:00
On Wednesday morning, Representative Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, was Listen
Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee on the State of the Pandemic from 2021-05-10T12:00
After a year of battling COVID-19, parts of the United States are celebrating a gradual turn toward normalcy, but the pandemic isn’t over—and it may never be over, exactly. Listen
A High-School Cheerleader, the Supreme Court, and the First Amendment from 2021-05-06T12:00
In 2017, Brandi Levy, a junior-varsity cheerleader at Mahanoy Area High School, in Pennsylvania, was denied a spot on the school’s varsity squad. That weekend, off campus, Levy posted a fu...
ListenThree Women Who Changed the World from 2021-05-03T12:00
“The Agitators” is a book about three women—three revolutionaries—who changed the world at a time when women weren’t supposed to be in public life at all. Frances Seward was a committed ab...
Listen#MeToo, 2021 from 2021-04-29T12:00
This week, W. W. Norton announced that it would take two books by the writer Blake Bailey out of print, after accusations that Bailey has had a Listen
The Children of Morelia from 2021-04-26T12:00
Refugees arriving at the southern border of the United States, and especially the unaccompanied children among them, are again in the headlines. A parent’s decision to send his or her chiI...
ListenThe Politics of the Pandemic Oscars from 2021-04-22T12:00
This Sunday is the ninety-third Academy Awards. It’s been a trying year for the film industry, with the pandemic shuttering theatres and halting film productions. But the unusual circumsta...
ListenWhy Has China Targeted Minorities in Xinjiang? from 2021-04-19T12:00
“Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang” is a expansive and detailed ...
ListenEnemies, Foreign and Domestic from 2021-04-15T12:00
This week, for the first time in more than two years, the directors of the D.N.I., C.I.A., F.B.I., N.S.A., and D.I.A. appeared before Congress to testify about “worldwide threats” to the U...
ListenLouis Menand on “The Free World” from 2021-04-12T12:00
The postwar years were a true flowering of American culture. Even as the United States was locked in an arms race with the Soviet Union, which culminated in the terrifying doctrine known a...
ListenJoe Biden Plays Hardball on Social Spending from 2021-04-08T12:00
Joe Biden promised to be the country’s Unifier in Chief, emphasizing his history as a consensus builder. But the first ma...
ListenJane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill from 2021-04-05T12:00
The investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a...
ListenIn Minneapolis and Georgia, the Fight for Racial Justice Continues from 2021-04-01T12:00
This week, testimony began in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George ...
ListenWill the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate? from 2021-03-29T12:00
No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more difficult in any number of ways, most of which will ...
ListenWhat the Atlanta Shootings Reveal About Racism and Misogyny in the U.S. from 2021-03-25T12:00
On March 16th, a gunman killed eight people—six of them women of Asia...
Listen“2034,” a Cautionary Tale of Conflict with China from 2021-03-22T12:00
American naval vessels routinely patrol the South China Sea. It is a shared maritime space, but China claims much of the area as its own. That much is true. What if one of the ships was to...
ListenJoe Biden's Crisis at the Border from 2021-03-18T12:00
Donald Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy, and the resulting images of migrant children being wrenched from their parents arms, were defining moments of his administration. On B...
ListenCan the Royal Family Withstand Oprah’s Scrutiny? from 2021-03-15T12:00
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, was riveting celebrity television, but it may also be a significant turning point in the history of the Bri...
ListenAndrew Cuomo, from Pandemic Hero to Political Pariah from 2021-03-11T12:00
Last spring, as the federal government seemed unable or unwilling to concoct a national plan to confront the pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo became something of a hero to people l...
ListenDaniel Kaluuya Plays “the Black Messiah” from 2021-03-08T12:00
In 1969, Fred Hampton, a young leader in the Black Panther Party, was shot in his bed by Chicago police in a predawn raid. The raid was facilitated by an informant, a teen-ager by the name...
ListenIs the Forever War in Afghanistan Coming to an End? from 2021-03-04T12:00
American troops have been in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years. Every President since George W. Bush has promised an imminent end to the fighting and a U.S. withdrawal, but none has succ...
ListenClubhouse Opens a Window for Free Expression in China from 2021-03-01T12:00
Clubhouse is an audio-only social-media platform offering chat rooms on any subject, allowing thousands of people to gather and listen to each other. Listen
Are There Politics on Mars? from 2021-02-25T12:00
This week, after a six-month, 292.5-million-mile journey, NASA{:.small}’s Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of Mars. The United States is th...
ListenCongressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again from 2021-02-22T12:00
Tommy Raskin, a twenty-five-year-old law student, took his own life on New Year’s Eve, after a long battle against depression. His family laid him to rest on January 5th, and, the next day...
ListenHow Did a Mob’s Attack on the Capitol Become Part of the Free-Speech Debate? from 2021-02-18T12:00
After the January 6th insurrection ...
ListenThe Supreme Court of Facebook from 2021-02-15T12:00
Facebook is at the center of the hottest controversies over freedom of speech, and its opaque, unaccountable decisions have angered people across the political spectrum. Mark Zuckerberg’s ...
ListenJoe Biden’s Plan to Save the American Economy from 2021-02-11T12:00
Throughout his general-election campaign, Joe Biden promised that his first order of business a...
ListenTrump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It? from 2021-02-08T12:00
Immediately after Inauguration, the Biden Administration began trying to unwind some of Donald Trump’s most notorious policies on immigration. But, over four years, Trump’s advisers made m...
ListenWill the Pandemic Be the End of Office Life as We Know It? from 2021-02-04T12:00
For most of the twentieth century, the office was one of the centers of American life, and the joys and annoyances of life there have inspired works of art, from Listen
Joe Biden, the Second Catholic President from 2021-02-01T12:00
Joe Biden is only the second Catholic out of forty-six Presidents. Paul Elie, a senior...
ListenHow Alexey Navalny Survived an Assassination Attempt and Reignited Protests in Russia from 2021-01-28T12:00
Over the past decade, the anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny has become one of the most influential Listen
Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power at the Start of the Biden Administration from 2021-01-25T12:00
With Donald Trump rated the least popular President in the span of modern polling, President Biden might feel confident in claiming a mandate to advance his progressive agenda. Yet Democra...
ListenCan the Biden Administration Lead a Revolution to Avert Catastrophic Climate Change? from 2021-01-21T12:00
President Trump’s Last Stand from 2021-01-19T12:00
After the President incited a shocking attack against the Capitol, members of Congress made the unprecedented decision to impeach him a second time—during his last week in office. But as P...
ListenBig Tech Turns on Trump from 2021-01-14T12:00
In late 2019, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power ...
ListenLawrence Wright on How the Pandemic Response Went So Wrong from 2021-01-11T12:00
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine mark what we hope will be the beginning of the end of the global pandemic. The speed of vaccine development h...
ListenDemocrats Take the Senate, and a Mob Storms the Capitol from 2021-01-07T12:00
On January 6th, pro-Trump fanatics <...
ListenThe Republican Rift in Georgia from 2020-12-21T12:00
In the past month, a fracture has opened up in the G.O.P. between those who grudgingly accept Joe Biden’s win and those who falsely claim that the election was rigged. In Georgia, supporte...
ListenThe Rise and Collapse of the Grand Old Party from 2020-12-17T12:00
The Republican and Democratic Parties can seem like permanent institutions, but their agendas today bear little resemblance to what they once stood for. Political parties have repeatedly died ou...
ListenAbigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley on the Democratic Rift from 2020-12-14T12:00
In November, when the Democratic Party lost seats in the House and a hoped-for victory in the Senate fizzled, centrist Democrats were quick to blame left-leaning progressives. Rhetoric abo...
ListenDianne Feinstein and the Perils of an Aging Leadership from 2020-12-10T12:00
In January, Joe Biden will become the oldest President in U.S. history. Of the leaders in the o...
ListenAtul Gawande on Taming the Coronavirus from 2020-12-07T12:00
Can a vaccine be distributed fairly? What will be the impact of a large number of people not taking it—as they say they won’t? Listen
Can Joe Biden Repair America’s Reputation Abroad? from 2020-12-03T12:00
Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has gutted the State Department, Listen
The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue from 2020-11-23T12:00
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a significant degree, Listen
How You Can Help Restore American Democracy from 2020-11-19T12:00
In the weeks since Election Day, Trump has refused to concede defeat, fired his Secretary of Defense, ordered his Attorney General to investigate specious claims of voter fraud, and stoked...
ListenJane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game from 2020-11-16T12:00
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in Washington, who have declined to acknowledge Joe Biden as P...
ListenA Nobel Laureate on the Politics of Fighting the Coronavirus from 2020-11-12T12:00
This week, the United States set new records for COVID-19 cases. Despite the rising numbers, the ...
ListenThe Trump Administration’s Chaotic Attack on the Undocumented from 2020-11-09T12:00
Donald Trump launched his Presidential campaign on the issue of immigration, and after his Inauguration, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement increased sharply. David Remnick tal...
ListenThe Agonizing Election of 2020 from 2020-11-05T12:00
In the weeks before Election Day, Joe Biden was polling strongly in Florida and...
ListenRemaking the Federal Courts from 2020-11-02T12:00
Donald Trump has changed the ideological cast of our entire federal court system, appointing the most appellate-court judges in a single term since Jimmie Carter, as well as three conserva...
ListenA Voters’ Guide to Three Key Swing States from 2020-10-29T12:00
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and numerous voter-suppression efforts, some seventy million ballots have already been cast this fall. As Election Day nears, Dorothy Wickenden is joined b...
ListenThe Future of Trumpism from 2020-10-26T12:00
Nicholas Lemann’s “The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump
Ilana Glazer’s “Cheat Sheet for the Voting Booth” from 2020-10-22T12:00
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson created “Broad City” in the early days of the Obama Administration, and their portrait of young, progressive slackers in New York City struck a nerve with mi...
ListenAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren from 2020-10-19T12:00
At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Listen
Amy Coney Barrett and the Future of Abortion Rights from 2020-10-15T12:00
This week, the Senate held confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia. If she is appointed, the Supreme Court will include six justi...
ListenAnthony Fauci, Then and Now from 2020-10-11T12:00
At the moment that Donald Trump was leaving Walter Reed Hospital, not yet recovered from a case of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with Listen
Can the Economy Be Saved? from 2020-10-09T12:00
After the coronavirus lockdown, unemployment soared and the stock market crashed...
ListenThe Election, as Seen from Swing States from 2020-10-05T12:00
Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most polls, but Listen
The Election Wars of 2020 from 2020-10-01T12:00
On Tuesday, Donald Trump and Joe Biden met for their first Presidential debate. For ninety minutes, Trump repeatedly shouted over and attacked both his opponent and the debate moderator, Chris W...
ListenCan a Newcomer Unseat Lindsey Graham? from 2020-09-28T12:00
Jaime Harrison may seem like a long shot to become a South Carolina senator: he is a Black Democrat who grew up on food stamps in public housing, and he has never held elected public offic...
ListenHow Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Is Changing the 2020 Election from 2020-09-25T12:00
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, at the age of eighty-seven. Although early voting has already begun in several states, President ...
ListenAn Election in Peril from 2020-09-21T12:00
This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both parties agree—and yet the pitfalls in the election process itself are vast. David Remnick r...
ListenAre Voters Asking the Wrong Questions About the 2020 Elections? from 2020-09-17T12:00
In an election year, media coverage focusses overwhelmingly on federal elections—races for the Senate, House, and, above all, the Presidency. But, in November, voters across the country wi...
ListenWhat to Do with a Confederate Monument? from 2020-09-14T12:00
Across the South and well beyond, cities and states have been removing their Confederate monuments, recognizing their power as symbols of America’s foundational racism. In the town of East...
ListenJiayang Fan on Navigating Her Mother’s Illness While Becoming a Target for Chinese Nationalists Online from 2020-09-10T12:00
Jiayang Fan immigrated to the United States from China at age seven. Her mother, who had been a doctor, cleaned houses in Listen
Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites” from 2020-09-07T12:00
In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired teacher who lives on the Upper West Side, reads the New York
Can Ron DeSantis Deliver a Victory in Florida to Donald Trump? from 2020-09-03T12:00
Florida, with twenty-nine electoral votes, is one of the most sought-after states in any election. It went for Bush in 2000 and 2004, Obama in 2008 and 2012, and Trump in 2016. Listen
Would an Election Victory Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment? from 2020-08-31T12:00
Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos go...
ListenTrump’s Convention and the Allure of the Politics of Fear from 2020-08-27T12:00
Despite the historic chaos of recent months, Donald Trump’s message in the 2020 campaign remains largely unchanged. He continues to focus on “law and order” in the streets, the dangerous a...
ListenEveryone Knew Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery. Why Did the Killers Walk Free? from 2020-08-24T12:00
It has been six months since Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was shot by three white men while he was out for a Sunday jog near his childhood home. The video of the killing, taken by one...
ListenThe Democratic Convention, Online and United from 2020-08-21T12:00
This week, the Democratic Party presented its first-ev...
ListenIsabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System from 2020-08-17T12:00
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like intersectionality, white fragility, and anti-racism. Isabel Wilkerson, the author of the best-s...
ListenKamala Harris and the Future of the Democratic Party from 2020-08-13T12:00
On Tuesday, Joe Biden announced his running mate: California Senator and fo...
ListenThe Documentary ICE Doesn’t Want You to See from 2020-08-10T12:00
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigrants. The agency is infamously unwelcoming to journalists, but two filmmakers managed to ...
ListenDonald Trump Declares War on TikTok from 2020-08-06T12:00
Last week, President Trump declared his intention to “ban” TikTok, a social-media pl...
ListenMayor Lori Lightfoot and the Federal Forces in Chicago from 2020-08-03T12:00
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on police reform. Now Lightfoot is facing civil unrest over police brutality and criticism b...
ListenWhy Trump and the Public Love the Army Corps of Engineers from 2020-07-30T12:00
In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson created a regiment of military engineers within the U.S. Army. Over the next two hundred years, the Army Corps of Engineers, as it came to be known, has...
ListenEmily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools from 2020-07-27T12:00
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of teachers, and the economy’s ability to rebound. Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University...
ListenIn Portland, Oregon, Trump Cracks Down on Protests from 2020-07-24T12:00
Since the police killing of George Floyd, in May, protests have continued around the country. The demonstrations have ...
ListenChance the Rapper’s Art and Activism from 2020-07-20T12:00
“My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rights Act put things as they should be,” Chance the Rapper tells David Remnick. “That bel...
ListenHow a Poultry Mogul Is Profiting from the Pandemic from 2020-07-16T12:00
Meat-packing and poultry-processing jobs have always been dangerous, and COVID-19 has exacerbated the risks. This spring, infection rates climbed so high at Mountaire, one of the largest p...
ListenA Good Week for the Climate Movement from 2020-07-09T12:00
This week, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration’s request to expand construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and the climate change task force formed by Joe Biden and B...
ListenHasan Minhaj on Being His Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams from 2020-07-06T12:00
Hasan Minhaj, a comedian and political commentator, is the host of Nexflix’s “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.” His show—which has won both an Emmy and a Peabody—has frequently gone viral. L...
ListenKeeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane from 2020-06-29T12:00
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But a huge number of incarcerated p...
ListenAt the Supreme Court: A Big Day for DACA, and a Bad Day for Trump from 2020-06-25T12:00
This week, in a 5–4 decision, t...
ListenMasha Gessen on Recognizing an Autocrat from 2020-06-22T12:00
In the past month, President Trump has cleared peaceful demonstrations with tear gas, told governors to “dominate” protesters, and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. The staff writ...
ListenArkansas Prisoners Organize Against Unchecked Racism and the Coronavirus from 2020-06-18T12:00
The Cummins Unit, a penitentiary in southeastern Arkansas, opened in 1902. Designed as a prison for black men, its rigid hierarchy and system of unpaid labor have been likened to slavery. ...
ListenRunning for Office During a Pandemic from 2020-06-15T12:00
The need for social distancing has upended most of the ways that candidates have traditionally put themselves before voters: gathering crowds, shaking hands, kissing babies. Listen
Protests Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism Push Trump and the G.O.P. to a Breaking Point from 2020-06-11T12:00
During Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, mainstream Republicans expressed disgust with his...
ListenA Former D.O.J. Official on How to Fix Policing from 2020-06-08T12:00
Ron Davis was a cop for almost thirty years, first as an officer with the Oakland P.D., then as the chief of police of East Palo Alto, California. In 2013, he joined Listen
The Killing of George Floyd and the Origins of American Racism from 2020-06-04T12:00
The killing of George Floyd has inspired a renewed public reckoning with Listen
A Rise in Anti-Chinese Rhetoric Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic from 2020-06-01T12:00
Peter Hessler has been in one of the strictest COVID-19 ...
ListenA Guide to the Economics and Politics of the Coronavirus Recovery from 2020-05-28T12:00
Just a month ago, experts were predicting that the American economy would be slow to recover from the pandemic. ...
ListenTo Test a Vaccine for COVID-19, Should Volunteers Risk Their Lives? from 2020-05-25T12:00
When he was eighteen, Abie Rohrig decided that he wanted to donate a kidney to save the life of a stranger who needed it. At twenty, he put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-cha...
ListenCould the Coronavirus Pandemic Change Iran’s Political Future? from 2020-05-21T12:00
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, has failed to cover up Listen
Mayors Describe the Challenge of Safely Ending Lockdown from 2020-05-18T12:00
With non-essential business starting to reopen in many states, elected officials have to make a call on a series of impossible questions: How soon is too soon? How safe is safe enough? Wha...
ListenTrump’s Day at the Supreme Court, Remote and Live-Streamed from 2020-05-14T12:00
This term, for the third time in recent U.S. history, the Listen
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden from 2020-05-11T12:00
Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 deaths. Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of the country’s most stringent stay-at-ho...
ListenLoneliness, Tyranny, and the Coronavirus from 2020-05-07T12:00
Though some economies have begun reopening, many people around the world are battening down for an indefinite period of extreme social distancing. Loneliness can be a destructive force. Th...
ListenThe Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails from 2020-05-04T12:00
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnick for a Listen
Trump vs. the United States Postal Service from 2020-04-30T12:00
The U.S. Postal Service is a rare thing: a beloved federal agency. Mail carriers visit every household in the country, and they are the only federal employees most of us see on a regular b...
ListenA City at the Peak of Crisis from 2020-04-27T12:00
Experts predicted that Wednesday, April 15th would be a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, its epicenter. On that day, a crew of ...
ListenTrump and Biden Face Off Over China and the Coronavirus from 2020-04-23T12:00
Around the world, COVID-19 is fundamentally altering politics. In China, the Communist Party is lauding Listen
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment from 2020-04-20T12:00
Bill McKibben and Listen
Mitch McConnell, the Most Dangerous Politician in America from 2020-04-16T12:00
Mitch McConnell was first elected to the Senate in 1984, but he ...
ListenThe Injustice of COVID-19 from 2020-04-13T12:00
On the surface, COVID-19 may seem to be a great leveller. Princes and Prime Ministers, musicians and Hollywood A-listers, N.B.A. players, and other prominent peop...
ListenCan Trump Avoid a Post-Coronavirus Great Depression? from 2020-04-09T12:00
Two weeks ago, Congress passed a two-trillion-dollar stimul...
ListenWhy We Underestimated COVID-19 from 2020-04-06T12:00
Even as the scale of the coronavirus outbreak was becoming apparent, spring breakers flooded the beaches of Florida and New Yorkers continued to congregate in parks. Despite the warnings o...
ListenCan Democrats Take the Offensive in the Pandemic Elections of 2020? from 2020-04-03T12:00
Since the coronavirus became a public-health emergency in the United States, coverage of the 2020 Presiden...
ListenThe Coronavirus Election from 2020-03-30T12:00
It’s been just over a month since Donald Trump tweeted for the first time about the coronavirus—saying, in essence, that the virus did not pose a substantial threat to the United States. W...
ListenArts and Entertainment in the Era of Coronavirus from 2020-03-26T12:00
This month, in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic, arts organizations around the country shut their doors. Th...
ListenIn a Nightmare Scenario, How Should We Decide Who Gets Care? from 2020-03-23T12:00
In northern Italy, doctors were forced to begin rationing ventilators and other equipment—a nightmare scenario that could become a reality for medical staff in the United States soon; New ...
ListenHow Humanity Survives Pandemics from 2020-03-20T12:00
The earliest epidemics date back to Neolithic times, and, in the millennia since, viral outbreaks have repeatedly shaped the course of human history, influencing behavior and creating and ...
ListenThe Ripple Effects of a Pandemic from 2020-03-16T12:00
For most of us, the speed and intensity of the coronavirus pandemic has come as a shock. But not for Lawrence ...
ListenHow Donald Trump Will Wage His Reëlection Campaign from 2020-03-12T12:00
Donald Trump never really stopped running for President. On the day of his inauguration, in 2017, he filed the paperwo...
ListenAnd Then There Were Two: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden from 2020-03-09T12:00
Just over a week ago, Bernie Sanders seemed to be the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Then came some prominent withdrawals from the race, and, on Super Tuesday, the resurgence ...
ListenIs Joe Biden the Future of the Democratic Party? from 2020-03-05T12:00
Joe Biden’s pitch to voters has been remarkably consistent: he says he can unite older voters, people of color, and...
ListenThe Many Iterations of Michael Bloomberg, C.E.O., Mayor, and Presidential Hopeful from 2020-03-02T12:00
Eleanor Randolph finished her biography of Michael Bloomberg in June, 2019, just as the former mayor decid...
ListenRebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein and the Lies that Powerful Men Tell from 2020-02-27T12:00
This week, the former film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted...
ListenStephen Miller, the Architect of Trump’s Immigration Plan from 2020-02-24T12:00
Donald Trump began his Presidential bid, in 2015, with an infamous speech, at Trump Tower, in which he said of Mexican immigrants, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re ...
ListenDoes It Really Matter Who the Democratic Nominee Is? from 2020-02-20T12:00
Rachel Bitecofer, a political scientist at the Niskanen Center, in Washington, D.C., thinks that most pollsters and forecasters rely on outdated ideas about how candidates succeed. She argues th...
ListenA Teen-age Trump Tries to Win His High School’s Election from 2020-02-17T12:00
Every year, Townsend Harris High School, in Queens, New York, holds a schoolwide election simulation. Students are assigned roles and begin campaigning in September. Every candidate has a ...
ListenAfter Two Primary Contests, What’s Ahead for the Democratic Race? from 2020-02-13T12:00
On Tuesday, voters in New Hampshire cast their ballots in the Democratic Presidential primary. Following Listen
The Black Vote in 2020 from 2020-02-10T12:00
The last time a Democrat won the White House, he had enormous support from black voters; lower support from black voters was one of many reasons Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Marcus Ferrel...
ListenDisasters at America’s Polling Places from 2020-02-06T12:00
On Monday, at the Iowa caucuses, a new smartphone app was used to report the results from each precinct. The app Listen
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now from 2020-02-03T12:00
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments that came into existence after the First World War were...
ListenThe Trump-Netanyahu “Deal of the Century” from 2020-01-30T12:00
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced his Administration’s Listen
What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like? from 2020-01-27T12:00
Mass incarceration is now widely regarded as a prejudiced and deeply harmful set of policies. Bipartisan support exists for some degree of criminal-justice reform, and, in some circles, th...
ListenAdam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, and the Framers Weigh In on Impeachment from 2020-01-23T12:00
Last week, the Senate opened the impeachment trial of Listen
Ten Years After “The New Jim Crow” from 2020-01-20T12:00
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. But, until the publication of Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow,” in 2010, most people didn’t use the term mass ...
ListenAs the Impeachment Trial Begins, the Democratic Candidates Struggle to Forcefully Take on President Trump from 2020-01-16T12:00
This week, Democratic Presidential candidates met for their Listen
In Iowa, the Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran from 2020-01-13T12:00
The New Yorker’s Eric Lach is in Iowa for the month...
ListenMad Men: Trump’s Perilous Approach to Dictators from 2020-01-09T12:00
Since taking office, President Trump has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin...
ListenTerry Gross Talks with David Remnick from 2020-01-06T12:00
David Remnick has appeared as the guest of Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” a number of times over the years, talking about Russia, Muhammad Ali, and other subjects. Hosting “Fresh Air” for near...
ListenThe Hyperpartisan State from 2019-12-23T12:00
North Carolina is a relatively purple state, where voting between the two major parties tends to be close. That might suggest a place of common ground and compromise, but it’s quite the op...
ListenPeter Schjeldahl on Good Cheer During Bad Times from 2019-12-19T12:00
Four months ago, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s longtime art criti...
ListenA Worldwide #MeToo Protest that Began in Chile from 2019-12-16T12:00
Three weeks ago, members of a Chilean feminist collective called Las Tesis put on blindfolds and party dresses and took to the streets. The festive atmosphere put their purpose in stark re...
ListenRevelations About the Forever War in Afghanistan from 2019-12-12T12:00
On Monday, the Washington Post published “The Afghanistan Papers,” a trove of more than two thousand pages of interviews with U.S. and foreign officials about the war...
ListenThis Is William Cohen’s Third Impeachment from 2019-12-09T12:00
The current impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are only the fourth in American history, and William Cohen has been near the center of power for three of them. First, he was a Rep...
ListenFacts vs. Fiction in the Impeachment Proceedings Against Donald Trump from 2019-12-05T12:00
This week, after two months of questioning seventeen former and current State Department and White House officials, the House Intelligence Committee Listen
Rana Ayyub on India’s Crackdown on Muslims from 2019-12-02T12:00
In August, India suspended the autonomy of the state of Kashmir, putting soldiers in its streets and banning foreign journalists from entering. Dexter Filkins, who was working on a story a...
ListenWhat Can Progressive Voters Do to Help Fix Our Broken Political System? from 2019-11-27T12:00
For decades, conservative organizations have poured time, attention, and money into state politics, and today, Republicans control the governorships and state legislatures of twenty-one st...
ListenSamantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back from 2019-11-25T12:00
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Int...
ListenOn and Off the Debate Stage, Democrats Contend with Race from 2019-11-22T12:00
This week, ten of the seventeen candidates still running for the Democratic nomination met on a debate stage in Atlanta. The setting was Listen
Lena Waithe on Police Violence and “Queen & Slim” from 2019-11-18T12:00
Lena Waithe is the screenwriter and creator of the Showtime series “The Chi,” about the South Side of Chicago, but she tells Listen
Tricky Dick and Dirty Don: How a Compelling Narrative Can Change the Fate of a Presidency from 2019-11-14T12:00
In 1972, Richard Nixon’s political future seemed assured. He was reëlected by one of the highest popular-vote margins in American history, his approval rating was near seventy per cent, an...
ListenThe Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA from 2019-11-11T12:00
Jeff Sessions, then the Attorney General, announced in 2017 the cancellation of the Obama-era policy known as DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. A number of plaintiffs sued, and ...
ListenHow Facebook Continues to Spread Fake News from 2019-11-07T12:00
One of the big stories of the 2016 Presidential campaign was the role Facebook played in spreading false and misleading information, from Russia and from inside the United States, about ca...
ListenHow the Irish Border Keeps Derailing Brexit from 2019-11-04T12:00
One of the almost unsolvable problems with the U.K.’s exit from the E.U. is that it would necessitate a “hard border” between Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., and the Republic ...
ListenImpeachment Proceedings Go Public, and Republicans Go On the Attack from 2019-11-01T12:00
This week, the House of Representatives voted to move forward with public hearings into Listen
Sophia Takal’s “Black Christmas,” and the Producer Jason Blum on Horror with a Message from 2019-10-28T13:00
On a sound stage in Brooklyn, Sophia Takal is racing to finish her first feature film, in time for a December release. The film is a remake of “Black Christmas,” an early slasher flick from Cana...
ListenElizabeth Warren and the Revolution in Economics from 2019-10-24T14:00
Senator Elizabeth Warren has made a "wealth tax" one of the centerpieces of her presidential campaign. The plan was developed with the help of the economists Emmanuael Saez and Gabriel Zuc...
ListenRonan Farrow on a Campaign of Silence from 2019-10-21T14:00
Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein and other accused perpetrators of sexual assault helped opened the floodgates of the #MeToo movement. In his new book, “Catch and Kill,” and in “ Listen
Representative Abigail Spanberger and the “National-Security Democrats” Turn the Tide on Impeachment from 2019-10-18T14:00
On September 23rd, Representative Abigail Spanberger join...
ListenEvan Osnos and Jiayang Fan on the Hong Kong Protests from 2019-10-14T14:00
The months of protests in Hong Kong may be the biggest political crisis facing Chinese leadership since the Tiananmen Square massacre a generation ago. What began as objections to a propos...
ListenTrump’s Abandonment of the Kurds Appeases Erdo?an and Infuriates Republicans from 2019-10-11T14:00
Last Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an informed President Trump of his intention to lau...
ListenThe New Yorker on Impeachment from 2019-10-07T14:00
David Remnick asks five New Yorker contributors about the nascent impeachment proceedings against the President. Susan Glasser, the magazine...
ListenTrump’s Enablers, Part 2: How Mike Pompeo’s Loyalty to the President Has Affected Diplomacy in Ukraine from 2019-10-03T14:00
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secret...
ListenCory Booker on How to Defeat Donald Trump from 2019-09-30T14:00
Senator Cory Booker burst onto the national scene about a decade ago, after serving as the mayor of the notoriously impoverished and dangerous city of Newark, New Jersey. To get that job, ...
ListenTrump’s Enablers: How Giuliani, Pence, and Barr Figure Into the Ukraine Scandal from 2019-09-27T14:00
This week, evidence emerged that Trump tried to enlist the help of a foreign power to discredit his political opponents—in this case, Democratic Presidential hopeful Listen
In Communities of Color, Fighting for a Stake in the Legal Cannabis Market from 2019-09-23T14:00
People of color have suffered disproportionately under cannabis criminalization, and social-justice advocates have played a major role in the push for legalization; Michelle Alexander’s bo...
ListenHow Will the Brinkmanship Between the U.S. and Iran Be Resolved? from 2019-09-19T14:00
This past Saturday, a series of air strikes in Saudi Arabia damaged more tha...
ListenA Texas Republican Exits the House from 2019-09-16T14:00
An exodus is under way in the House of Representatives: not even halfway into the congressional term, fifteen Republicans have announced that they will not run in 2020. One of the exiting ...
ListenTrumpism and Conservatives' Identity Crisis from 2019-09-12T14:00
One of the big stories of the 2016 presidential election was the rupture within the Republican Party. "Never Trump" traditionalists lost their fight to prevent the nomination of Donald Tru...
ListenSalman Rushdie’s Fantastical American Quest Novel from 2019-09-09T14:00
The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, talks with Salman Rushdie about “Quichotte,” his apocalyptic quest novel. A few years ago, when the fo...
ListenBoris Johnson vs. Parliament on Brexit from 2019-09-06T14:00
After more than two years of debates and one deadline extension, the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on October 31st. Last week, with no Brexit deal in sight, Listen
Marianne Williamson Would Like to Clarify from 2019-09-02T14:00
Marianne Williamson, the self-help author associated with the New Age movement, has never held political office. But the race for the Presidency, she thinks, is less a battle of politics t...
ListenThe Politics Behind the Anti-Vaccine Movement from 2019-08-29T14:00
Around the world, the number of measles cases is on the rise. Public health officials in the...
ListenHBO’s “Our Boys,” a Brutally Truthful Depiction of the Effects of Hate Crime from 2019-08-26T14:00
In 2014, a pair of crimes shocked Israelis and Palestinians. The first was the abduction and murder of three Israeli boys by a Hamas-linked group. Then there was an act of reprisal—the tor...
ListenMike Pompeo’s Circuitous Journey to Trump’s Cabinet from 2019-08-22T14:00
Mike Pompeo is the last surviving member of President Trump’s original national-security team. Pompeo entered the Administration as the director of the C.I.A., but, after the sudden end of...
ListenMaggie Gyllenhaal on “The Deuce” and #MeToo from 2019-08-19T14:00
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first starring role was in the 2002 movie “Secretary,” a distriburbing romantic comedy about a troubled woman in a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss. Since the...
ListenIn the Wake of a Mass Shooting, Dayton’s Mayor, Nan Whaley, Takes the National Stage from 2019-08-15T14:00
Earlier this month, a gunman killed nine people and injured nearly thirty more in Dayton, Ohio. The shooting in Dayton, the 251st mass shooting in the United States this year, took place o...
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