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
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- A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-19 04:35
- last episode published
- 2024-12-18 11:00
- publication frequency
- 3.43 days
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- WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
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- 1054
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| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-18 | From the conflict in Gaza and the war in Ukraine to political chaos across Europe and the reëlection of Donald Trump, 2024 has been among the most tumultuous years in recent memory. Isaac Chotiner, the primary contributor to The New Yorker’s Q. & A... |
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| 2024-12-16 | Power dynamics in the Middle East shifted dramatically this year. In Lebanon, Israel dealt a severe blow toHezbollah, and another crucial ally of Iran—Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria—was toppled by insurgents. But the historian Rashid Khalidi is ske... |
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| 2024-12-11 | After a five-day manhunt, Luigi Mangione, a twenty-six-year-old Ivy League graduate, was arrested and charged on Monday with the widely publicized assassination of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Brian Thompson. The case seized public imagination, and ther... |
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| 2024-12-09 | Immigration has been the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s political career, and in his second successful Presidential campaign he promised to execute the largest deportation in history. Stephen Miller, Trump’s key advisor on hard-line immigration policy, ... |
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| 2024-12-06 | The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s transition back into the White House, the world he will inherit in 2025, and his provocative nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. In their final Roundtable episode of 2024, Susan B. G... |
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| 2024-12-04 | A year ago, Donald Trump was facing four separate criminal indictments, and had become the first President to be charged with and convicted of a felony. Now that Trump is President-elect, and with the Supreme Court having granted sitting Presidents bro... |
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| 2024-11-25 |
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court Since the founding of the nation, just 116 people have served as Supreme Court Justices; the 116th is Ketanji Brown Jackson, appointed by President Biden in 2022. Jackson joined a Court with six conservative Justices setting a new era of jurisprudence.... |
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| 2024-11-23 | The Washington Roundtable discusses how people in D.C. and across the country are preparing themselves for Donald Trump’s second Presidency, and what tools citizens have to protect their rights and push back on abuses of power. The American Civil Liber... |
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| 2024-11-20 | The New Yorker staff writers Dexter Filkins and Clare Malone join Tyler Foggatt to examine Donald Trump’s appointments of former congressman Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to his Cabinet.Gaetz, who has been nominated for Attorney General, is on... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims. It’s hardly the first time that the democratic process has brought an anti-democratic leader to power. The political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, who b... |
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