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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-11-20

  What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?

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...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
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...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-11-13

  Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next

 The second Trump Administration might dramatically reshape the foundations of the federal government for decades to come. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is reckoning with what could be interpreted as a generational rebuke of its platform and presenta...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-11-08

  Donald Trump Returns. What Now?

The Washington roundtable is joined by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, to discuss how Donald Trump, a convicted felon and sexual abuser, won both the Electoral College and the popular vote—a first for a Republican President since 2004. Dem...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-11-07

  How Trump Took Back America

Four years after refusing to accept defeat and encouraging a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Donald J. Trump has once again been elected President of the United States. The former President, who in the past year alone has been convicted of a ...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-11-04

  Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos

In recent weeks and months, dozens of prominent security and military officials and Republican politicians have come out against Donald Trump, declaring him a security threat, unfit for office, and, in some cases, a fascist. Way out in front of this mo...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-11-01

  Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss

The Washington Roundtable discusses the 2024 election with the historian Michael Beschloss, before a live audience at The New Yorker Festival, on October 26th. He calls this election a “turning point” as monumental as the election of 1860—on the eve of...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-10-30

  Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise

At Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden this past weekend, the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage.” In the swing state of Pennsylvania, which is home to nearly half a million people of Puerto Rican descent, the ...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-10-28

  Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats

In these final days of the Presidential campaign, Vice-President Kamala Harris has been getting in front of voters as much as she can. Given the polls showing shaky support among Black men, one man she absolutely had to talk to was Lenard McKelvey, muc...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-10-26

  The Lies Are Winning

The Washington Roundtable discusses the avalanche of disinformation that has taken over the 2024 election cycle, including an A.I. video meant to slander Tim Walz and claims that the votes are rigged before they’re even counted. Will this torrent of li...
  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author