We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of those workers have turned to a website called We the...
18 Mar 202523min
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring to the Agency for International Development, an agency...
14 Mar 202527min
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
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 senten...
10 Mar 202523min
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
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...
7 Mar 202537min
Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
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 bu...
4 Mar 202516min
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
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 wil...
28 Feb 202534min
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
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...
25 Feb 202516min
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
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 discoura...
21 Feb 202534min
