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Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Atul Gawande, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, to discuss Donald Trump and El…
1 year ago
Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?
Matthew L. Wald joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the political aftermath of last week’s horrific collision between an American Airlines plane and a Bla…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next
The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout of the White House releasing, and then rescinding, a memo intended to freeze trillions of dollars in…
1 year, 1 month ago
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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week
The Washington Roundtable discusses President Trump’s first week in office, during which he broke a record for the most executive orders any modern-d…
1 year, 1 month ago
David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term
Within hours of his Inauguration, and shortly after proclaiming that his victory had been preordained by God, Donald Trump signed dozens of executive…
1 year, 1 month ago
Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
The Washington Roundtable discusses this week’s confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and Pam Bondi as Attorney General, and…
1 year, 1 month ago
How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War
The Eaton and Palisades fires continue to wreak destruction across Los Angeles. They are predicted to become the most expensive fire recovery in Amer…
1 year, 1 month ago
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And although his district is in the heart of Silicon Va…
1 year, 1 month ago