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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-02-21

  John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

Since the election, Senator John Fetterman—once a great hope of progressives—has conspicuously blamed Democrats for the electoral loss. Fetterman tells David Remnick that the Democratic Party discouraged male voters, particularly white men. He has purs...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-02-18

  Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive

Staff writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable works from the magazine’s archive, in a series called Takes. The writer Jia Tolentino and the cartoonist Roz Chast join the Radio Hour to present their sel...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-02-14

  The 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 thirty-four lawsuits against the Administration. Since Trump’s second Inauguration, the A.C.L.U. has filed cases to block executive orders ending birthrig...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-02-11

  “No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary

The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was directed by four Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, and to unpack the film’s message David Remnick speaks with two of the directors, Basel Adra, who ...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-02-07

  Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administration have been justified as emergency actions to root out D.E.I.—diversity, equity, and inclusion—including the freeze (currently rescinded) of trillio...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-02-04

  The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker

David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Treisman and the poetry editor Kevin Young. Treisman edited “A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker,” and Young edited “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker,...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-01-31

  Bill 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 coder who had figured out how to run a business, and who then seemed to be running the world. Gates was ranked the richest person in the world for man...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-01-28

  Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires

The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a deadly crime spree in Malibu; Kamala Harris’s rise in politics; and the ever more fragile environment. She covered the destructive Woolsey Fire, in Los...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-01-24

  How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago

“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sheds light on one of the most important people in show business. Morrison spent years talking to Michaels for her new b...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2025-01-21

  The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—discusses this week’s confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and Pam Bondi as Attorney General, and the potential for a “shock and awe...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author