The New Yorker: Politics and More

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

Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News

The relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump is not just close; it can be profoundly influential....

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How Bad Is It?: Trump Strikes Iran and His Base Hits Back

The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for another episode of “How Bad Is...

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Why Israel Struck Iran First

The ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and had...

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Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed?

The Washington Roundtable discusses the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, and the possibility...

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The Rise And Fall of DOGE

The New Yorker staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the decline of DOGE,...

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The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan

The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The contributor...

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Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force

The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s deployment of uniformed troops in Los Angeles,...

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What Broke the U.S.-China Relationship?

Michael Luo, an executive editor of The New Yorker, joins the show as guest host. He sits down with...

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What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism

When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and the...

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The Oligarchs Are Fighting

The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout from the messy rupture between Donald Trump and Elon...

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The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King

The New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her recent Profile of the iconoclastic...

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Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News

Lesley Stahl, a linchpin of CBS News, began at the network in 1971, covering major events such as Watergate,...

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Examining Trump's War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary

This is the second installment of “How Bad Is It,” a recurring series in which the staff writer...

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How Experts Became the Enemy

The Northwestern history professor and New Yorker contributor Daniel Immerwahr joins Tyler Foggatt to...

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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper...

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Biden, Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President

The Washington Roundtable discusses new information that has emerged about Joe Biden’s decline while...

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What Is Jeff Bezos’s Plan for the Washington Post?

The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the changes that Jeff Bezos,...

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Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”

When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic...

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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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