The New Yorker: Politics and More
A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
- Website
- 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
- 2024-05-16 10:00
- last episode published
- 2024-05-16 01:30
- publication frequency
- 3.49 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 972
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- News
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-16 | Naomi Fry, a staff writer and co-host of the New Yorker podcast Critics at Large, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her impressions of Stormy Daniels’s testimony in the hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump. Having spent weeks doing a deep div... |
|
| 2024-05-13 |
The TikTok Ban Is “a Vast Overreach, Rooted in Hypocrisy,” Wired’s Katie Drummond says David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the TikTok ban that just passed with bipartisan support in Washington. The app will be removed from distribution in U.S. app stores unless ByteDance, the Ch... |
|
| 2024-05-11 | The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and the potentially decisive role that the youth vote will play in the Presidential election. Cyrus Beschloss, the C.E.O. o... |
|
| 2024-05-09 | The New Yorker staff writer Eric Lach joins Tyler Foggatt to share a firsthand account of the bizarre stories coming out of the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. President. Lach explains why the former publisher of the National Enquirer testif... |
|
| 2024-05-06 |
Randall Kennedy on Harvard Protests, Antisemitism, and the Meaning of Free Speech In December, the presidents of three universities were summoned to Congress for hearings about whether a climate of antisemitism exists on campuses. Politicians like Elise Stefanik made headlines, and two of the presidents, including Harvard’s Claudine... |
|
| 2024-05-04 |
Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.– Biden or Trump? The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the Presidential candidacy of the anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and explore the ways his run for the White House as an independent m... |
|
| 2024-05-01 |
Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson? The New Yorker staff writer David Kirkpatrick joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from office, just seven months after her colleagues forced out Kevin McCarthy. Kirkpatrick explains why Greene... |
|
| 2024-04-30 |
Georgia’s Secretary of State Prepares for Another Election Brad Raffensperger, who holds the usually low-profile office of secretary of state in Georgia, became famous after he recorded a phone call with Donald Trump. Shortly after the 2020 election, Trump demanded that Georgia officials “find 11,780 votes” so... |
|
| 2024-04-27 | The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss Donald Trump’s argument for Presidential immunity with former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal. Will the Supreme Court deliver Trump a legal victory in his fight a... |
|
| 2024-04-24 | Anika Arora Seth, the editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News, joins Tyler Foggatt to share what it has been like covering campus protests since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th. Seth explains both the global and university-specific fo... |
|