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David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

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David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992...

He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Since Remnick became editor, The New Yorker has garnered a hundred and forty-nine nominations for National Magazine Awards and has won thirty-seven. In 2001 and again in 2005, the magazine won an unprecedented five National Magazine Awards; in 2014, the magazine won four awards. In addition, in 2000 Remnick was named Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year.

Remnick has written six books: “Lenin’s Tomb,” “Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia,” “King of the World” (a biography of Muhammad Ali), “The Bridge” (a biography of Barack Obama), and “The Devil Problem” and “Reporting,” which are collections of some of his pieces from the magazine. Remnick has edited many anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including “Life Stories,” “Wonderful Town,” “The New Gilded Age,” “Fierce Pajamas,” “Secret Ingredients,” and “Disquiet, Please!”

Remnick has contributed to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire, andThe New Republic. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has taught at Princeton, where he received his B.A., in 1981, and at Columbia. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein; they have three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.

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David Remnick appears in the following:

Senator Chris Murphy on “How Democracy Dies.” Plus, Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus

Friday, March 28, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Trump Administration aims to prevent fair elections in 2026, Murphy says; “it won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.” And the noted religion scholar talks with David Remnick.

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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”; Plus, Federal Workers Standing Up to DOGE

Friday, March 14, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring. Plus, the federal workers behind We the Builders.

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What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine; Plus, How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Friday, March 07, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine. Plus, how the former senator got the gold bars that sent him to prison.

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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Friday, February 28, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

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John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

Friday, February 21, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup to bail out.” Plus, Richard Brody on the year in film.

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The Oscar-Nominated Documentary “No Other Land”; Plus, Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

Friday, February 07, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The staff writer Jelani Cobb talks about the Trump Administration’s attempts to root out policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion—which it describes as discriminatory. 

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Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Friday, January 31, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Microsoft co-founder discusses his new memoir, A.I., vaccine skepticism, and his dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, two anthologies for The New Yorker’s centennial.

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100 Years of 100 Things: The New Yorker Magazine

Friday, January 31, 2025

David Remnick on The New Yorker at 100.

How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago

Friday, January 24, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Susan Morrison on “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” with a reading from SNL alumna Tina Fey. And the staff writer Dana Goodyear on losing her home in the LA wildfires.

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Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview

Friday, January 17, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

President Biden’s long-serving Secretary of State discusses the challenges of the last four years, and his reason for optimism that lasting peace in the Middle East remains possible.

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Ro Khanna Wants to Fight the Tech Oligarchy

Friday, January 10, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The California representative discusses the potential impact of Silicon Valley’s influence on policy. Plus, how an environmentalist makes the case for more mining in the U.S. 

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The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten; Julianne Moore on Pedro Almodóvar

Friday, December 27, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The food guru on learning to love dinnertime; plus, Pick Three: Erotic Thrillers, and Moore on Almodóvar’s new film and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”

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Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

Friday, December 13, 2024

The historian discusses events that have weakened supposed allies of the Palestinians, and the idea of settler colonialism that has taken hold on the left. Critic Adam Kirsch responds.

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Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans; Plus, Audra McDonald on Being Black on Broadway

Friday, December 06, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer on the rhetoric and the reality of deporting “millions.” Plus, McDonald talks about Stephen Sondheim and “Gypsy.”

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Sarah McBride on the Fight for Trans Rights

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The first transgender person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from other House members, including Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

Friday, November 22, 2024

The Supreme Court Justice talks with David Remnick about the Court’s ethical code, and more. Plus, Ayelet Waldman on why quilting relieves stress.

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Danielle Deadwyler in “The Piano Lesson,” and the Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

Friday, November 15, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The actress discusses her new film, which was adapted from an August Wilson play. And two leading political scientists explain why voters failed to defend democracy: We never do. 

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Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future

Friday, November 08, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick joins Evan Osnos, Jane Mayer, and Susan Glasser to explain how Trump won the race, and what his rhetoric of vengeance and retribution portends for his return to power.

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Liz Cheney and Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump and the Fascist Threat

Friday, November 01, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick discusses Trump, Mitch McConnell, Jeff Bezos, and the danger of an authoritarian president with a Republican who crossed the aisle, and a liberal icon.

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Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats

Friday, October 25, 2024

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The “Breakfast Club” co-host on Black voters and Kamala Harris, and why the Democratic Party needs some “Bulworth.” And Jazmine Hughes on how Alpha Kappa Alpha shaped the Vice-President.

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