Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to as…
1 year, 1 month ago
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job
Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for Tucker Carlson’s the Daily Caller. Collins sta…
1 year, 2 months ago
We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring to …
1 year, 2 months ago
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and gold worth more than ha…
1 year, 2 months ago
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dictatorial style of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s lean to…
1 year, 2 months ago
Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actors light up a room, but Alan Cumming is more of a di…
1 year, 2 months ago
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and draconian executive orders coming from the Trump …
1 year, 2 months ago
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
David Remnick is joined by Alexandra Schwartz, the co-host of the podcast Critics at Large, and The New Yorker’s august film critic Richard Brody. Th…
1 year, 2 months ago
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
Since the election, Senator John Fetterman—once a great hope of progressives—has conspicuously blamed Democrats for the electoral loss. Fetterman tel…
1 year, 3 months ago