Isaac Chotiner Sums Up Politics in 2025
The New Yorker staff writer Isaac Chotiner joins Tyler Foggatt to reflect on several of the most notable interviews he conducted in 2025. They discuss competing theories about the origins of political...
18 Dec 202537min
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes
In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later,...
15 Dec 202529min
The Washington Roundtable’s 2025 in Review
The Washington Roundtable discusses what surprised them in 2025, reflecting on the major shock-and-awe events that defined the first year of Donald Trump’s second term: the capitulation of major law f...
13 Dec 202539min
How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz is joined by the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, who teach at Harvard, and Lucan A. Way, who teaches at the University of Toronto, f...
11 Dec 202551min
Inside Trump’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center
The New Yorker staff writer Katy Waldman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the Kennedy Center, the premier performing-arts hub in Washington, D.C., has been transformed under President Trump’s second...
11 Dec 202540min
Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
As a California congressman, Adam Schiff was the lead manager during the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. He later served on the January 6th committee. Trump has castigated him as “...
8 Dec 202529min
America’s “Bad Emperor” Problem
The Washington Roundtable discusses President Donald Trump’s health and the signs of his age-related decline: a noticeably reduced work schedule, fewer public appearances, and more rambling, profanity...
6 Dec 202540min
Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela?
The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to talk about the Trump Administration’s military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean. They discuss the questiona...
3 Dec 202544min
