The New Yorker: Politics and More

A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.

Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery

The New Yorker staff writer Katy Waldman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Donald Trump’s fondness for...

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How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism

For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that would...

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Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich

The Washington Roundtable discusses the unprecedented corruption of the federal government, including...

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How Bad Is It?: Andrew Marantz on the Health of Our Democracy

In a new recurring series on The Political Scene, the staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt...

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Cory Booker on America’s Crisis of “Moral Leadership”

As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions,...

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A Politics of Fear Defines Trump’s First Hundred Days in Office

The Washington Roundtable discusses the first hundred days of President Trump’s second Administration,...

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Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave

Paul Elie, who writes about the Catholic Church for The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the...

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How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE.

Elon Musk, who’s taking his chainsaw to the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he...

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Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?

Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after its C.E.O. killed an editorial she wrote that was...

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Donald Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market

The Washington Roundtable is joined by Mark Blyth, a professor of international economics and public...

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Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism

The former senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the tumult that Trump’s...

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Why the Tech Giant Nvidia Owns the Future

The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qualcomm,...

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Donald Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs

The Washington Roundtable discusses President Donald Trump’s invocation of emergency powers to enact...

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How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance

Sarah Larson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Tesla Takedown movement, protesting Elon Musk and Donald...

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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and issuing...

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From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit

The Washington Roundtable is off today, and will be back next week. In the meantime, enjoy a conversation...

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Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?

The writer David W. Brown, who has long covered NASA and the space industry, joins Tyler Foggatt to...

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Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job.

Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for...

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Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?

The Washington Roundtable speaks with with Michael Waldman, the president and C.E.O. of the Brennan...

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Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants?

The veteran courts reporter Ruth Marcus joins the host Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Trump Administration’s...

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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding...

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The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of Elon Musk’s DOGE with the former...

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Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?

The staff writer John Cassidy joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the recent meltdown of the U.S. stock market,...

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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting...

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