Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
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—i...
7 Feb 202526min
The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
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 ...
4 Feb 202518min
Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—a coder who had figured out how to run a business, and who then seemed to be running the world. Gate...
31 Jan 202532min
Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a deadly crime spree in Malibu; Kamala Harris’s rise in politics; and the ever more fragile environme...
28 Jan 202512min
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sheds light on one of the most important people in show business. Mo...
24 Jan 202537min
The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—discusses this week’s confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and Pam Bondi as Atto...
21 Jan 202536min
Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview
As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threatened during his first term. That effort was challenged by an onslaught of international crises, from U...
17 Jan 202549min
One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining
Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environmentalist agrees with him, to some extent: the journalist Vince Beiser. Beiser’s recent book is calle...
14 Jan 202517min
