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
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And although his district is in the heart of Silicon Valley—and he once worked as a lawyer for tech compan...
10 Jan 202532min
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have a very different kind of career, writing music for Broadway and eventually performing as an actor on s...
7 Jan 202518min
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and perhaps the most acclaimed writer of short stories of our time,...
3 Jan 202531min
Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director
Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman recited “only a partial list” of the directors Moore has worked with, including Robert Altman, Loui...
31 Dec 202424min
The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. An essential element of her success is her confiding, authentic warmth—her encouragement for even the mos...
27 Dec 202427min
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American hostages, who had been seized when revolutionaries stormed the embassy. No one from the U.S. had bee...
24 Dec 202429min
