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The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue
Episode 451
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a significant…
5 years, 3 months ago
Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
Episode 450
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the delicate art of telling jokes. In a conversation …
5 years, 4 months ago
Jane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game
Episode 449
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a number of prominent Republicans in Washington, who have…
5 years, 4 months ago
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now
Episode 448
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are again today—and democratic governments that came into e…
5 years, 4 months ago
A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?
Episode 447
No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick speaks abo…
5 years, 4 months ago
Trump in Review
Episode 446
The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his core promises remain unfulfilled, he managed to resh…
5 years, 4 months ago
Driving Through the Pandemic
Episode 445
It feels like a lifetime since the coronavirus pandemic transformed Americans’ daily lives, seven months ago, and fatigue is setting in even as the d…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Trumpism
Episode 444
Nicholas Lemann’s “The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump” explores what will happen to the movement Donald Trump created among Republicans. In h…
5 years, 4 months ago
Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick
Episode 443
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Recorded largely before the pandemic, it features an unusua…
5 years, 4 months ago
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy
Episode 442
At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew Marantz to ta…
5 years, 5 months ago