David Remnick appears in the following:
Stephen Miller, the Immigration Extremist in the White House
Friday, February 21, 2020
How one adviser almost single-handedly engineered the Trump Administration’s nativist policies. Plus: a conversation with Pam Grier, the first action heroine of blaxploitation cinema.
Bernie Sanders Ascends, and a High School Simulates the Election
Friday, February 14, 2020
Can a leftist consolidate the Party faithful and rally voters in the general election? Plus, a teen-age Trump tries to win over his high school.
Gish Jen’s “The Resisters”
Friday, February 14, 2020
The author’s fifth novel is about baseball, class warfare, and a sentient Internet.
The Ascendance of Bernie Sanders, and the Novelist Gish Jen
Friday, February 14, 2020
Centrist Democrats have their hair on fire over Sanders as the front-runner. Is he the Party’s future, or an electoral disaster? Plus, Gish Jen on baseball and artificial intelligence.
Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage
Friday, February 07, 2020
The New Yorker’s Hilton Als reviews the comic’s return after a sexual-misconduct scandal. Plus, a Patriotic Millionaire who wants to raise his own taxes.
Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage
Friday, February 07, 2020
Hilton Als talks about what a performer who committed misconduct owes to his audience. And will any of the Democratic front-runners attract enough black voters to win the Presidency?
A Tumultuous Week in Impeachment, and Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril
Friday, January 31, 2020
Susan Glasser assesses the impact of John Bolton’s manuscript on the impeachment case. And a historian looks to the nineteen-thirties—the last time democracy seemed so fraught.
N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft
Friday, January 31, 2020
A celebrated science-fiction author grapples with her genre’s deep legacy of racism.
What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?
Friday, January 24, 2020
Kai Wright sits down with two advocates of prison abolition to discuss the why and the how of ‘decarceration.’
The Alternative Oscars, 2020 Edition
Friday, January 24, 2020
A New Yorker critic names the best films of 2019; and two prison abolitionists explain a vision of the world of ‘decarceration,’ where only a tiny number of people are locked up.
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Friday, January 17, 2020
Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
Friday, January 17, 2020
Mass incarceration has been profoundly harmful to communities of color. Ten years after “The New Jim Crow” helped to identify the problem, how much headway have we made?
The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran
Friday, January 10, 2020
Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.
The Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran
Friday, January 10, 2020
Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, where the Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the situation in Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley.
Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick
Friday, January 03, 2020
The celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice, and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.”
Dexter Filkins on the Air Strike that Killed Qassem Suleimani
Friday, January 03, 2020
Previous Administrations had considered the Iranian military commander too dangerous to touch. Is the U.S. prepared for war with Iran?
Terry Gross Talks with David Remnick
Friday, January 03, 2020
The celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.” Plus, New Yorker writers pick sides for an age-old battle: cats or dogs?
Patty Marx Conducts an Orchestra
Friday, December 27, 2019
A longtime staff writer tries out an altogether different career. And the New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh praises his favorite Christian rockers.
Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads
Friday, December 27, 2019
A lifelong surfer reports on a machine-made wave that could finally make surfing a conventional sport—and potentially transform its spirit.
Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads
Friday, December 27, 2019
A machine-made wave could make surfing a conventional sport—or destroy its spirit. Plus: an amateur conductor takes the baton of a major orchestra, and Kelefa Sanneh on Christian rock.
