Powered by disappointment among Trump voters and outrage over data centers, a Texas Democrat is running neck and neck with the Republican incumbent in the governor’s race.
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Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You
Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer tells David Remnick.
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Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump?
Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks with David Remnick about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans.
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The Reporter Nicholas Lemann on California’s Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax
A measure to tax the ultra-wealthy in California is a bellwether progressive issue. Why are so many Democrats skeptical?
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Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump
Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad.
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An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia
Evan Gershkovich, a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal who was convicted on false charges of espionage, talks about his time in a Russian prison.
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Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters
The actor talks with David Remnick about portraying the Facebook founder under pressure in “The Social Reckoning,” and why Strong felt betrayed by The New Yorker’s 2021 Profile of him.
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Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe.
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Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics
The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, Elon Musk, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
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Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture”
The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end.
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The New Yorker Radio Hour
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