Nicolás Maduro on the Brink of Dictatorship
Nicolás Maduro was an unlikely successor to Venezuela’s popular and charismatic Hugo Chavez. And, since his election, the country has been wracked with devastating food shortages, a breakdown of ordin...
19 Des 201722min
The Alabama Fallout, and Louise Erdrich on the Future
Roy Moore was a classic Trumpian candidate: a political outsider of extreme positions, rejected by the establishment and plagued by accusations of scandal. He eventually garnered the full support of D...
15 Des 201733min
Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet
The business reporter Sheelah Kolhatkar has recently written for The New Yorker about a wave of advances in robotic technology that will have dangerous implications for our economy and political stabi...
12 Des 201723min
Susan Orlean on the Trail of Tonya Harding
When the Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was kneecapped in an attack by friends of her rival Tonya Harding, the scandal riveted the nation; twenty-four years later, it’s the subject of the new film “I, ...
8 Des 201732min
Barry Blitt’s Rogues’ Gallery of Presidents
Barry Blitt wasn’t into politics—music and hockey were more his things—but as an artist he’s become one of the keenest observers of American politicians. Blitt has contributed more than eighty covers ...
5 Des 201733min
Praying for Tangier Island
Residents of Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, live through each hurricane season in fear of a major storm that would decimate their land. With its highest point only four feet above sea level, t...
1 Des 201722min
Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick
In October, 2016, Bruce Springsteen appeared at The New Yorker Festival for an intimate conversation with David Remnick. (The event sold out in six seconds.) This entire episode is dedicated to that c...
24 Nov 201755min
Noah Baumbach’s Unhappy Families
In his review of “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the New Yorker critic Anthony Lane paraphrased no less an author than Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families are alike,” Lane wrote, but “every ...
21 Nov 201725min
