The New Yorker: Politics and More
A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
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- http://www.wnyc.org/shows/new-yorker-political-scene
- Description
- A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-22 12:46
- last episode published
- 2025-02-22 01:00
- publication frequency
- 3.42 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
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- Number of Episodes
- 1075
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-22 | The Washington Roundtable discusses with the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond about President Trump’s attempts to claim broad powers, why most Republican lawmakers have fallen into line out of fear, and whether the United States ha... |
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| 2025-02-20 | The New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Elon Musk’s seizure of power within the U.S. government, the tech industry’s slide into right-wing politics, and how the ideology of techno-fascism is taking root in Silicon Valley.... |
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| 2025-02-17 | 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... |
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| 2025-02-13 | The essayist and cultural critic Brady Brickner-Wood talks with Tyler Foggatt about the opposition Donald Trump encountered in his first Presidential term, why many liberals are feeling a sense of resignation, and the Democratic Party’s struggle to pre... |
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| 2025-02-10 | 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been justified as emergency actions to root out D.E.I.—diversity, equity, and inclusion—including the freeze (currently rescinded) of trillio... |
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| 2025-02-08 | The Washington Roundtable is joined by Atul Gawande, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to discuss Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s rapid-fire dismantling of the agency. They explore the life-and-death implications of the Tru... |
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| 2025-02-06 | Matthew L. Wald joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the political aftermath of last week’s horrific collision between an American Airlines plane and a Black Hawk military helicopter. They look at the current state of airline safety, the changes afoot at the... |
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| 2025-02-03 |
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... |
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| 2025-02-01 |  The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout of the White House releasing, and then rescinding, a memo intended to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. The incident, as well as this week’s Senate confirmation hearings for contro... |
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| 2025-01-30 |
How 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 funding, sowing confusion about financing for student loans, SNAP benefits, nonprofits, and more. The next day, after a backlash, the Administration... |
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