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Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt g...
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Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA?
The Washington Roundtable discusses Vice-President J. D. Vance’s week on the world stage: stumping for the Kremlin-aligned Hungarian autocrat Viktor O...
Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Pam Bondi’s removal from her post as Attorney General. They examine the...
How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
In 2021, when Olga Rudenko and other journalists launched the English-language news outlet the Kyiv Independent, they were committed to making a publi...
The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s address on the Iran war and the playbook that has defined his career in business and politics when...
A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
Thousands of federal prosecutors have been fired or have resigned from their roles since Pam Bondi took over as Attorney General. She has made no secr...
A Mamdani Strategist’s Advice for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms
The Washington Roundtable examines the potential for a “Blue Wave” in the 2026 midterms. The hosts are joined by Morris Katz, a twenty-six-year-old De...
How the War Has Reshaped Life in Iran
The reporter Cora Engelbrecht joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss what life is like for the people of Iran as war unfolds. They talk about Engelbrecht’s re...
Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?
The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson has reported from Cuba for many years, and recently wrote about the deteriorating economic conditions on the island....
From Critics at Large: Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth
The Washington Roundtable is off today, and will be back next week. In the meantime, enjoy an episode of The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast abo...
The Pentagon Wants an Obedient A.I. Soldier. Will It Get One?
The New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the escalating standoff between the A.I. company Anthropic and the Depar...
Social Media Goes to Court
In the book “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, argues that social-media platforms are detrimental...
Pete Hegseth’s Holy War
The Washington Roundtable considers how the ideological commitments of Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, are at play in the conflict with Iran. Thei...
The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled
The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kristi Noem’s removal from her post as Secretary of Homeland Security. The...
The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
As Iran’s retaliation hit American allies throughout the Middle East this week, David Remnick was joined by two New Yorker writers with decades of exp...
The Washington Roundtable on the Iran War
The Washington Roundtable discusses the war that the United States and Israel have started with Iran, how the conflict might evolve and affect the who...
Special Episode: War in Iran
The foreign-affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the fallout from the United States’ joint military operation with Israel...
“Everyone is Overreacting” on the Tariff Ruling, Stephen Vladeck Says
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Stephen Vladeck, a Georgetown Law professor and self-proclaimed “Supreme Court nerd,” to examine President Trum...
How the Epstein Files Are Forcing a Reckoning with Power
The New Yorker staff writer Joshua Rothman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the political and cultural fallout from the release of millions of documents...
How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA
Tucker Carlson has long been a standard-bearer for far-right views, such as the racist conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement.” He recently...
The MAGA Agenda Is Sinking in Popularity. What Might Donald Trump Do?
The Washington Roundtable discusses the upcoming State of the Union address and the public’s shift against Donald Trump on two of his signature issues...
What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein
In January, the Justice Department released over three million documents, including many redacted e-mails, related to Jeffrey Epstein. “Should we shar...
What Happens When a Megalomaniac Begins to Fail
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s recent “explosion of the ego” and tendency toward megalomania, and they consider how the evolution...
Can Anthropic Control What It's Building?
The New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss his reporting on Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence company behind t...
Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement
Ben Shapiro, the host of his eponymous podcast and the co-founder of the conservative website the Daily Wire, has lambasted the left and the Democrati...
How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s threats to “nationalize” elections in fifteen states, the recent F.B.I. raid to seize 2020 voting r...
The “Melania” Documentary Offers an Intimate Look at Very Little
The New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a new documentary about Melania Trump, which chronicles her life during the...
The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump
The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents. “Thi...
From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Force
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the journalist and historian Garrett Graff to trace how post-9/11 immigration policy, which led to a surge in B...
What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA
The New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charles Duhigg joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss why Republicans have been more successful than...
How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News
Last October, Bari Weiss—best-known as a contrarian opinion writer who launched the right-leaning Free Press—was appointed the new editor-in-chief of...
How Trump Brought Us to a “Rupture in the World Order”
The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland and his subsequent retreat. At Davos this week, the Canadian Prime...
Should Progressive Organizers Lean More on the Church?
The New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the role the church has played in sustaining protest movements—and whether...
With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
Before becoming a podcaster, Jennifer Welch had a successful career as an interior designer and co-starred in a reality show on Bravo. But, since 2022...
A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressure...
Is Everything Going According to Marco Rubio’s Plan?
The New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Marco Rubio’s reëmergence as one of the most powerful, and most transformed,...
Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism
U.S. intervention in other countries, whether overt or covert, is by no means new, and Daniel Immerwahr notes that the open embrace of expansionism by...
Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War?
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s use of force in Venezuela, his desire to take over Greenland, and the historical echoes of the Admi...
Special Episode: After Maduro’s Ouster, What Are Trump’s Plans for Venezuela?
The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Mad...
The Company Behind the A.I. Boom
Across the country, data centers that run A.I. programs are being constructed at a record pace. A large percentage of them use chips built by the tech...
How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026?
The writers Charles Duhigg, Cal Newport, and Anna Wiener join Tyler Foggatt for a conversation about artificial intelligence and the promises, myths,...