Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous number of legal controversies. The Radio Hour ask...
8 Aug 202534min
Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together”
Jamaica Kincaid began writing for The New Yorker in 1974, reporting about life in the magazine’s home city. She was a young immigrant from Antigua, then a British colony; she had been sent to New York...
5 Aug 202525min
John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump
In Donald Trump’s first term, he was furious that people were investigating his connections to Russia—“Russia, Russia, Russia,” he complained. Now, as Trump fulfills a campaign promise of retribution,...
1 Aug 202526min
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
Since the end of the Cold War, most Americans have taken U.S. military supremacy for granted. We can no longer afford to do so, according to reporting by the staff writer Dexter Filkins. China has dev...
29 Jul 202521min
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. But L.A.—where nearly forty per cent of residents a...
25 Jul 202529min
Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
“I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is going on right now,” the writer-director Ari Aster tells Adam Howard, a senior producer of the Radio Hour....
22 Jul 202525min
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein
The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash from some of Trump’s most ardent supporters. Even after the financier was convicted for hiring an unde...
18 Jul 202526min
Carrie Brownstein on Cat Power. Plus, “Materialists,” “Too Much,” and the Modern Rom-Com.
For The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia”—writes about an iconic rock-and-roll image. In the summer of 2003, the musician Chan Marshall, be...
15 Jul 20251h
