David Remnick

A South African scholar dismantles the viewpoints of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and a magician disentangles truth from illusion.

Most states are moving to restrict access to voting. Federal legislation known as H.R. 1 aims to expand it. Jelani Cobb and Jeannie Suk Gersen discuss the war over voting in America.

April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal first wave, as it hit New York City hard. This episode documents twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

A retired admiral and a former Marine wrote a thriller about how not to start a world war; and a novelist wrote a best-seller about a subject that most trans authors have tried to avoid.

The historian Simon Schama and the staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss how the interview with Meghan and Harry plays into culture wars in the U.K. and the U.S.

The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?

The veteran actor explains why playing a man suffering from dementia was no challenge. “When you’re working with a superb script,” he says, “don’t act too much.”

The staff writer on the progress and challenges in defeating the coronavirus, and the actor on playing Fred Hampton, the martyr to the Black Panther cause.

The Maryland lawmaker took shelter during the January 6th insurrection and then led the impeachment that followed, all within weeks of losing his son.

A new Oversight Board launched by Facebook will be able to overrule the company’s own decisions about content.  Now it will rule on whether Trump should remain banned.

Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about free speech to a new body called the Oversight Board. In collaboration with Radiolab, we look at how and why it came to be.

The songwriter is part of a lineage of Canadian musicians who write about ideas, not just stories; her new album is partly inspired by climate grief.