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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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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is curren...
What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?
The Washington Roundtable discusses the President’s use of the military for political ends, and the “almost unlimited” powers he would unlock by invok...
After James Comey, Who’s Next on Trump’s Revenge Tour?
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Donald Trump’s “revenge tour”—his effort to use the levers of government...
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and philos...
How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government
The Washington Roundtable discusses how this week’s government shutdown can be best understood by looking at the background and influence of Russell V...
Will the Supreme Court Hand Trump Another Slate of Victories?
The New Yorker contributing writer Jeannie Suk Gersen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Supreme Court’s new term and the cases that could test the bo...
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He was...
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The Washington Roundtable discusses how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide agai...
How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion
The New Yorker contributing writer Dhruv Khullar joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump is transforming the nation’s approach to vaccines and...
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gives th...
Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and...
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of Ameri...
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, wit...
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
The Washington Roundtable discusses the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Wednesday duri...
The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Fergus McIntosh, the head research editor at The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the magazine is approaching fact -checking in the seco...
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
Speculation, analysis, and commentary circulated all summer, after the announcement, in June, that Anna Wintour would step back from her role as the e...
Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?
The Washington Roundtable, hosted by the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos, is back in season. The co-hosts reflect on the ne...
Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins the guest host and staff writer Clare Malone to discuss Marcus’s recent profile of U.S. Attorney...
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
The term “culture wars” is most often associated with issues of sexuality, race, religion, and gender. But, as recent months have made plain, when Don...
The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis
The Democratic strategist Lis Smith joins the guest host Clare Malone, a New Yorker staff writer, to discuss the state of the Democratic Party, and ho...
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
Since the end of the Cold War, most Americans have taken U.S. military supremacy for granted. We can no longer afford to do so, according to reporting...
Is Trump the Roman Tyrant America's Founders Feared?
The Washington Roundtable speaks with Jeffrey Rosen, the president and C.E.O. of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit, about how...
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of Ameri...
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
Mohammed R. Mhawish was living in Gaza City during Israel’s invasion, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. He witnessed the invasion...
What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?
The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda has shifted from border...
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous...
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of Ameri...
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. B...
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE
The Washington Roundtable’s Evan Osnos interviews Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired, about the publication’s scoop-filled coverag...
How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics
The New Yorker contributor Jon Allsop joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how President Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files has fractured his base...
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein
The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash from some of Trump’s most ardent supporters. Even af...
Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court
The Washington Roundtable’s Jane Mayer interviews Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan, a co-host of the “Strict Scrutiny” podca...
Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy
In conservative economics, cuts to social services are often seen as necessary to shrink the expanding deficit. Donald Trump’s budget bill is somethin...
Fiona Hill on What Putin Tells Us About Trump
The Washington Roundtable’s Susan B. Glasser interviews the Russia expert Fiona Hill about Vladimir Putin’s long reign and Trump’s dismantling of Amer...
Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party
Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the damage that President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cause in rural Amer...
The Scientists Studying the End of the World
The New Yorker staff writer Rivka Galchen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a class at the University of Chicago with a tantalizingly dark title: Are We...
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. Trump frequently responds to segments in real...
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 It?,” a monthly series that examines the health of A...
Why Israel Struck Iran First
The ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and had even set a deadline for it. While arming proxies...
Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed?
The Washington Roundtable discusses the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, and the possibility that the United States will join the fray by...