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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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Congress Used to Work. What Happened?
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Carl Hulse, the New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent, to discuss Congress’s dwindling role in the Ame...
What Biden Officials Wish They Had Done Differently in Gaza
The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Biden Administration’s failure to restrain Israel during its milit...
Rahm Emanuel Says Israel’s Path Is “Not Sustainable Politically”
Rahm Emanuel is a Democratic Party elder, having served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and as mayor of his native Chicago for two terms. He’...
Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s latest attempt to relitigate the 2020 election. In a prime-time speech on Thursday, he argued that...
Can California Actually Make Billionaires Pay?
Dave Regan, the president of the prominent California union S.E.I.U.-United Healthcare Workers West, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Proposition 40, a...
How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
The Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, has officially been terminated. Its July 4th sunset date was part of Donald Trump’s ori...
The Platner Implosion, and What It Means for Democrats
The Washington Roundtable digs into the stunning collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine, and what it means for the Democratic Party’s p...
How the Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is Reshaping Executive Power
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Supreme Court’s now concluded term and what some of the recent decis...
From Critics at Large: An American Playlist
The Washington Roundtable will return next Friday. To commemorate two hundred and fifty years of the American experiment, the hosts of The New Yorker’...
America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of modern demo...
Donald Trump's Dangerous Politicization of America's Spy Agencies
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Jeff Stein, the veteran political reporter and founding editor of the newsletter “Spytalk,” to examine Donald T...
Robby Hoffman Thinks There Are Worse Things Than Being Offended
The comedian and actor Robby Hoffman, known for her role on the HBO show “Hacks” and her début Netflix comedy special, “Wake Up,” joins Tyler Foggatt...
Hillary Clinton on How Donald Trump Lost the Iran War
The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down with David Remnick at the 92nd Street Y, in New York, on Monday evening, after the Trump Admini...
The Politics of the Big Game
The New Yorker staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Louisa Thomas join Tyler Foggatt to discuss three recent collisions of sports and polit...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Losing a Son in Gaza.
When Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son, Hersh, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, she became a prominent spokesperson for the families of Israel...
Donald Trump’s Imperial Birthday Spectacle
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s eightieth birthday, on Sunday, with a look at the pageantry and spectacle surrounding the planned U...
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,...