What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran
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 h...
27 Helmi 34min
The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction
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 the...
24 Helmi 19min
Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars
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 ha...
20 Helmi 31min
Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
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 ...
17 Helmi 14min
What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein
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],” Ep...
13 Helmi 35min
Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right
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. You...
10 Helmi 25min
Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement
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...
6 Helmi 49min
The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump
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 ...
30 Tammi 49min
