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How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion
The New Yorker contributing writer Dhruv Khullar joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump is transforming the nation’s approach to vaccines and immunization during his second term. They talk a…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gives the President no [such] power.” Yet, almost one yea…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discus…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is the Brazilian filmm…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, with both states recognizing each other’s claim to c…
Published on 2 months ago
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
The Washington Roundtable discusses the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Wednesday during a speech on a college campus. The panel consid…
Published on 2 months ago
The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Fergus McIntosh, the head research editor at The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the magazine is approaching fact -checking in the second Trump era. They talk about how the spread of d…
Published on 2 months ago
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
Speculation, analysis, and commentary circulated all summer, after the announcement, in June, that Anna Wintour would step back from her role as the editor-in-chief of American Vogue. This changing o…
Published on 2 months ago
Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?
The Washington Roundtable, hosted by the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos, is back in season. The co-hosts reflect on the news of this summer, discussing President Trump’s i…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins the guest host and staff writer Clare Malone to discuss Marcus’s recent profile of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. They talk about Bondi’s politi…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago