The New Yorker: Politics and More
A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?
The Washington Roundtable discusses with the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond about...
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The New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon Musk’s seizure of power...
EscucharThe A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
In Donald Trump’s first term in office, the American Civil Liberties Union filed four hundred and...
EscucharWhat Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
The essayist and cultural critic Brady Brickner-Wood talks with Tyler Foggatt about the opposition Donald...
EscucharTrump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administration...
EscucharWhy Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Atul Gawande, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International...
EscucharIs Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?
Matthew L. Wald joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the political aftermath of last week’s horrific collision...
EscucharBill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—a...
EscucharSenator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next
The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout of the White House releasing, and then rescinding,...
EscucharHow Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Power
On Tuesday, the Trump Administration sent out a memo attempting to put a blanket pause on most federal...
EscucharA Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week
The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s first week in office, during which he broke...
EscucharDavid Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term
Within hours of his Inauguration, and shortly after proclaiming that his victory had been preordained...
EscucharBig Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
The Washington Roundtable discusses this week’s confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth as Secretary...
EscucharHow the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War
The Eaton and Palisades fires continue to wreak destruction across Los Angeles. They are predicted to...
EscucharRepresentative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And...
EscucharWhat the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech
The Washington Roundtable discusses Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end its fact-checking program across...
EscucharWill Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?
After nearly a decade as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has resigned from office. His stepping...
EscucharFrom Critics at Large: The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome
The Political Scene will be back next week. In the meantime, enjoy a recent episode from The New Yorker’s...
EscucharWhy Banning TikTok Could Violate the First Amendment
The New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss efforts by the U.S. government...
EscucharRemembering Jimmy Carter, a “President Out of Time”
President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of one-hundred. He is remembered as a man of paradoxes: an...
EscucharHow Henry Kissinger Accumulated and Wielded Power
The Washington Roundtable revisits an episode recorded after Henry Kissinger’s death, in November,...
EscucharWe Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024
From the conflict in Gaza and the war in Ukraine to political chaos across Europe and the reëlection...
EscucharRashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism
Power dynamics in the Middle East shifted dramatically this year. In Lebanon, Israel dealt a severe...
EscucharWhy Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero
After a five-day manhunt, Luigi Mangione, a twenty-six-year-old Ivy League graduate, was arrested and...
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