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Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”

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Published: March 1, 2026 11:00

David Remnick sits down with Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of a show he loves, “Industry,” which is currently airing its fourth season. The show is centered on the financial and personal dramas of junior employees at a fictional London…

What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran

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Published: February 27, 2026 18:40

As Donald Trump and his Administration threaten to attack Iran, their motivations remain unclear. Does the President want to force Iran to make a nuclear deal, to replace the one that he scrapped in his first term, or is he really seeking regime change? To…

The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction

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Published: February 24, 2026 11:00

Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs have had a major impact in their short time on the market—currently, one in eight Americans say that they have been on GLP-1 drugs. As tens of millions of people take these medications, anecdotal evidence has emerged that they…

Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars

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Published: February 20, 2026 18:40

Hosting the Academy Awards ceremony is a notoriously tricky gig, but Conan O’Brien nailed it in 2025, and he will return for this year’s event. Since leaving late-night television, in 2021, O’Brien has been busy: his hit podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a…

Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards

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Published: February 17, 2026 18:40

Every year, ahead of Oscar night, the film critic Richard Brody joins the New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss his picks for the year’s best films. David Remnick sits down with Brody and the staff writer Alexandra Schwartz to discuss the movies that didn’t get…

What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein

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Published: February 13, 2026 18:40

In January, the Justice Department released over three million documents, including many redacted e-mails, related to Jeffrey Epstein. “Should we share the Julie Brown text with Alan [Dershowitz],” Epstein wrote in one note to a lawyer. “She is going to…

Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right

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Published: February 10, 2026 11:00

Jenin Younes rose to prominence on the right by defending medical professionals like Jay Bhattacharya who claimed that they were being censored over opposition to vaccination and masking mandates. Younes worked for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group…

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

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Published: February 6, 2026 18:40

Ben Shapiro, the host of his eponymous podcast and the co-founder of the conservative website the Daily Wire, has lambasted the left and the Democratic Party for decades. Recently, though, Shapiro has taken to criticizing some of the loudest voices in the…

The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump

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Published: January 30, 2026 18:40

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents. “This is a city where there’s a police force of about six hundred officers [compared] to three thousand…

How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News

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Published: January 27, 2026 11:00

Last October, Bari Weiss—best-known as a contrarian opinion writer who launched the right-leaning Free Press—was appointed the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. Donald Trump has called her new regime “the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time to a…

How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA

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Published: January 23, 2026 18:40

Tucker Carlson has long been a standard-bearer for far-right views, such as the racist conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement.” He recently did a chatty interview with the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, an admirer of Hitler. And yet, Carlson…

How Betting Took Over Sports

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Published: January 20, 2026 11:00

Danny Funt has been reporting on the gambling boom for The New Yorker, which has generated startling recent headlines, including the arrest of a former N.B.A. coach and the indictment of two M.L.B. pitchers—not to mention the Polymarket user who won four…