David Remnick

Country superstar George Strait’s search for the next hit; Lawrence Wright discusses how Texas is America’s future; and Sally Rooney considers adultery in the age of social media. 

A rookie’s account of Vietnam in 1967 changed how we saw the war. And Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, on the gang war inside the White House.   

David Remnick on the past and future of American health-care law, and a mild-mannered Englishman claims that he owns Mars.    

James Taylor gives Adam Gopnik a quick guitar lesson; and Lucinda Williams bares her soul to Ariel Levy.

Inside Donald Trump’s gilded Palm Beach pleasure palace; and the journalist Jon Ronson tries his hand at fiction, in “Okja.”

Ai Weiwei reflects on censorship and the refugee crisis, a congressman asks us to reconsider trade with China, and Chinese students explain the country’s Ivanka Trump fever.

In this episode, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the intimate and global implications of genetic science, and we look for the Orson Wells of VR.

James Ivory talks about E. M. Forster’s “Maurice,” a gay love story with a happy ending. Plus, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega.

Kristen Wiig plays a bride whose idea for her wedding hair is out of control. And the Reverend William Barber tells David Remnick that politics needs to get religion again.

The comedian Jerrod Carmichael explains why he simply will not give back to the community. And a former lawyer for Bill Clinton explains what it really takes to end a Presidency.

In this episode, a gun blogger critiques the N.R.A., and Lena Dunham bids goodbye to “Girls.”