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 original executive order that created the agency, whi...
12 Jul 31min
The World Cup, the Knicks, and LeBron James’s Fate: An All-Time Summer in Sports
With all the sports news at play this summer, from the New York Knicks winning the N.B.A. Finals to Donald Trump having a direct impact on FIFA’s decisions during the World Cup, it’s time for a deep d...
10 Jul 18min
The Sounds of Summer, with Fred Armisen
The comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound: he’s a former punk-rocker who gets a lot of comic mileage from doing accents, and he released an album of sound effects—a modern update of a novelty ge...
7 Jul 17min
Alicia Keys’s New York Musical Goes on National Tour
The unofficial anthem of New York City is “Empire State of Mind,” the Jay-Z song with that unforgettable hook, sung by Alicia Keys. So it was only fitting that when New York celebrated the Knicks’ N.B...
3 Jul 32min
From The Political Scene: 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 Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as the new acting...
30 Jun 36min
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 democracy. But the British, unsurprisingly, see these ...
26 Jun 49min
From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters
When “Jaws” hit theatres in 1975, no one—neither the studio executives involved nor the film’s twenty-six-year-old director, Steven Spielberg—was betting on its success. But it dominated at the box of...
23 Jun 51min
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 Administration announced a memorandum of understanding t...
18 Jun 49min
