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The Political Scene | The New Yorker
Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt g...
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The Abuse That Fueled Andrew Tate's Media Empire
The New Yorker investigative reporter Heidi Blake joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her reporting on Andrew Tate, the British American influencer and fig...
Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy Running for Congress in New York
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, was one of a number of Kennedy family members who spoke out against the policies and the character...
The Washington Roundtable Live: The Backlash Midterms
The Washington Roundtable discusses the 2026 midterm elections and the prospects of a comeback for the Democratic Party with The New Yorker’s editor,...
Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy
The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick joins Tyler Foggatt and Andrew Marantz to discuss his investigation—published in August, 2025—into th...
Dan Osborn, the Independent Senate Candidate Who Could Tip Nebraska
As control of the Senate hangs in the balance, many eyes are on Dan Osborn, of Nebraska. He’s a dream candidate for the Democrats: a mechanic in the f...
The Whiplash of the U.S.-Iran Peace Talks
The New Yorker contributing writer Robin Wright joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the state of peace talks between the U.S. and Iran. They talk about the...
The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”
There will be a variety of celebrations to honor America’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary this year. Much of it is to be expected: fireworks, re...
Is Washington Up to the Challenge of A.I.?
The Washington Roundtable discusses the growing political backlash to artificial intelligence, especially among young Americans, and asks whether Wash...
What Is Hakeem Jeffries’s Plan for the Midterms, and After?
The New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss his Profile of Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader. They talk about h...
The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore
The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives during intense disputes about American history, as the Trump Admin...
A Member of the “Seditious Six” on Reviving the Democratic Party
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Representative Jason Crow, of Colorado, an Army Ranger veteran, member of the House Intelligence and Armed Serv...
Hungary Avoided Democratic Collapse. Can We?
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Péter Magyar, the new Prime Minister of Hungary, whom Marantz recently inter...
Barack Obama in the Trump Era
The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him the...
Have Billionaires Gone Too Far?
The über-rich have enjoyed a remarkable degree of sway in Donald Trump’s Washington—but they may now be facing a backlash. The Washington Roundtable t...
Kash Patel’s Strategic, Frivolous Lawsuit Against The Atlantic
The New Yorker’s general counsel, Fabio Bertoni, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kash Patel’s two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar lawsuit against The...
How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor
In the governor’s race in California, the leading Republican candidate appears to be Steve Hilton, a British-born political consultant and former Fox...
An Assassination Attempt and a Royal Visit to Washington
The New Yorker staff writer Antonia Hitchens joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a surreal week in Washington: the attempted assassination of Donald Trump...
Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
One of Donald Trump’s few critics within his party is the libertarian-leaning senator Rand Paul, from Kentucky. Paul was recently the sole Republican...
Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home
The Washington Roundtable discusses the global consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz with Edward Fishman, a senior fellow at the Council...
What Pro Wrestling Taught Linda McMahon About Politics
The New Yorker staff writer Zach Helfand joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss his Profile of Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education. They talk about the...
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. He grew up in a Zionist home and served as an officer in th...
Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?
The Washington Roundtable discusses how the anti-corruption candidate Péter Magyar brought down Hungary's autocratic Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, and...
Is Zohran Mamdani’s “Sewer Socialism” Resonating?
The New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Zohran Mamdani’s first hundred days as mayor of New York. They talk about how...
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
At the end of February, OpenAI’s C.E.O., Sam Altman, made headlines by swiftly cutting a deal with the Pentagon for his company to replace Anthropic,...
Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA?
The Washington Roundtable discusses Vice-President J. D. Vance’s week on the world stage: stumping for the Kremlin-aligned Hungarian autocrat Viktor O...
Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Pam Bondi’s removal from her post as Attorney General. They examine the...
How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
In 2021, when Olga Rudenko and other journalists launched the English-language news outlet the Kyiv Independent, they were committed to making a publi...
The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s address on the Iran war and the playbook that has defined his career in business and politics when...
A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
Thousands of federal prosecutors have been fired or have resigned from their roles since Pam Bondi took over as Attorney General. She has made no secr...
A Mamdani Strategist’s Advice for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms
The Washington Roundtable examines the potential for a “Blue Wave” in the 2026 midterms. The hosts are joined by Morris Katz, a twenty-six-year-old De...
How the War Has Reshaped Life in Iran
The reporter Cora Engelbrecht joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss what life is like for the people of Iran as war unfolds. They talk about Engelbrecht’s re...
Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?
The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson has reported from Cuba for many years, and recently wrote about the deteriorating economic conditions on the island....
From Critics at Large: Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth
The Washington Roundtable is off today, and will be back next week. In the meantime, enjoy an episode of The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast abo...
The Pentagon Wants an Obedient A.I. Soldier. Will It Get One?
The New Yorker staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the escalating standoff between the A.I. company Anthropic and the Depar...
Social Media Goes to Court
In the book “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, argues that social-media platforms are detrimental...
Pete Hegseth’s Holy War
The Washington Roundtable considers how the ideological commitments of Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, are at play in the conflict with Iran. Thei...
The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled
The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kristi Noem’s removal from her post as Secretary of Homeland Security. The...
The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
As Iran’s retaliation hit American allies throughout the Middle East this week, David Remnick was joined by two New Yorker writers with decades of exp...
The Washington Roundtable on the Iran War
The Washington Roundtable discusses the war that the United States and Israel have started with Iran, how the conflict might evolve and affect the who...
Special Episode: War in Iran
The foreign-affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the fallout from the United States’ joint military operation with Israel...