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The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, presents interviews, profiles, and humor, in a co-production with WNYC Studios.
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Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain
Three masters talk about the craft of investigative journalism, and how the bad guy makes the story tick.
With David Remnick
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.
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Kevin Costner Goes West Again
The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.
By David Remnick
John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.
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Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road
The singer and leader of Florence and the Machine chats with John Seabrook about finding her voice as a songwriter and her struggles with alcohol, and plays two songs live with her band.
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Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”
The legendary historian and biographer explains how, from a background in daily journalism, he came to write one of the most revered nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.
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Summer at the Racetrack with Ada Limón
The U.S. Poet Laureate offers a guided tour of a racetrack near her home, deep in the horse country of Lexington, Kentucky.
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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV
The staff writer picks three pioneering entries to the genre. “If you hate reality television,” she says, “I’m trying to talk to you.”
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Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, explains the upcoming U.K. elections, the “catastrophic” Brexit, and the soul-crushing sham of a life in politics.
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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.”
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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”
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After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted as teen-agers. Even after serving their sentences, the “Times Square Two” argued their innocence. It took decades for prosecutors to agree.
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
Though rooted in the jazz tradition, the singer’s interests and repertoire reach across eras, languages, and continents.
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“Love Is Blind,” and Allegedly Toxic
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit. Plus, Ilana Glazer’s buddy movie tackles the realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away
David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from. Plus, Miranda July’s new novel explores marriage, desire, and perimenopause.
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The United States Passed a Ban on TikTok. Why?
Is TikTok the killer app of social media—or a Trojan horse sent by the enemy? Two views on the recent ban. Plus, salmon in the dishwasher, and more highlights of culinary TikTok.
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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
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Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts)
At seventy, the comedian débuts as a movie director with “Unfrosted,” about the invention of the Pop-Tart. And Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger on how to convince an election denier.
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