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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
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Published: March 10, 2025 09:00
Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and gold worth more than half a million dollars. He is the first person sentenced to prison for crimes committed in the Senate in more…
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
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Published: March 7, 2025 19:00
Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dictatorial style of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s lean toward Russia was investigated, it was psychoanalyzed—yet many were still shocked when recently Trump and…
Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
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Published: March 4, 2025 11:00
When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actors light up a room, but Alan Cumming is more of a disco ball—reflecting every possible angle of show business.” Cumming appears in mainstream dramas such as…
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
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Published: February 28, 2025 19:00
Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and draconian executive orders coming from the Trump White House. But some state governors seem more willing to oppose the federal government than congressional…
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
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Published: February 25, 2025 11:00
David Remnick is joined by Alexandra Schwartz, the co-host of the podcast Critics at Large, and The New Yorker’s august film critic Richard Brody. They talk about the past year in film and predict the victors of the Academy Awards. Brody dismisses “The…
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
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Published: February 21, 2025 19:00
Since the election, Senator John Fetterman—once a great hope of progressives—has conspicuously blamed Democrats for the electoral loss. Fetterman tells David Remnick that the Democratic Party discouraged male voters, particularly white men. He has pursued…
Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive
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Published: February 18, 2025 11:00
Staff writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable works from the magazine’s archive, in a series called Takes. The writer Jia Tolentino and the cartoonist Roz Chast join the Radio Hour to present their…
The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
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Published: February 14, 2025 19:00
In Donald Trump’s first term in office, the American Civil Liberties Union filed four hundred and thirty-four lawsuits against the Administration. Since Trump’s second Inauguration, the A.C.L.U. has filed cases to block executive orders ending birthright…
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
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Published: February 11, 2025 11:00
The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was directed by four Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, and to unpack the film’s message David Remnick speaks with two of the directors, Basel Adra, who…
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
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Published: February 7, 2025 19:00
Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administration have been justified as emergency actions to root out D.E.I.—diversity, equity, and inclusion—including the freeze (currently rescinded) of trillions…
The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
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Published: February 4, 2025 11:00
David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Treisman and the poetry editor Kevin Young. Treisman edited “A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker,” and Young edited “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker,”…