OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 2024
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Nayeema look forward to the characters and moments that may define 2024 by looking back at ...
Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On is off for the holidays, so today we have an episode of friend-of-the-pod Preet Bharara's podcast...
The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Rainbow is a four-time Emmy and Grammy-nominated musical comedy sensation famous for his viral...
Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are world hunger, pandemics and climate change “fixable” – or is mitigating their impacts the ...
God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Alberta is a fantastic reporter whose profiles of 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley and former CNN boss C...
Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper details the threats and dangers we face. On the agenda: hot w...
Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is on a mission to defeat Donald Trump - and says she’ll d...
Washington’s Top China Hawk Talks TikTok, Taiwan & Trump
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin is on a mission to raise the alarm bell on the Chinese Communist Pa...
Martina Navratilova on Transgender Athletes, Pay Equity and Trump
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is no stranger to controversy. But the battle she’s picked these...
Olympian Caster Semenya on Fighting to Run
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who gets to compete as a woman? And who decides whether someone is “woman enough”? When it comes...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s exit from OpenAI, one company seems to be the winner: Mi...
The Fox News ‘Lying Tax,’ Tucker and More with Brian Stelter
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Fox News knowingly air unhinged conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems and Smartm...
Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Doctoroff had a storied career as Deputy Mayor of New York City during the first two Bloomberg a...
Adam Grant on Your Potential, Gen Z and — oops — Elon
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are tech bros successful because of some innate talent, or could any of us be like them? Organizatio...
Can Mike Johnson Survive As House Speaker?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After three incredibly chaotic weeks, the House Republican Conference elected a relatively unknown (...
The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re playing you an episode of Land of the Giants that takes a walk down memory lane to the...
How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does a dramatic narrative nonfiction account of a dramatic tech CEO look like? To find out, we ...
Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Uber: hard to live with it, or without it. In this episode Kara grills CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the ...
Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy is challenged, at home and abroad, and at least some of this blame falls on “Big Tech.”...
The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social media has been inundated with disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war — from a flood of g...
Christiane Amanpour on Covering This War
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the fog of war, we’re joined by CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. She’s cov...
Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the most immediate, and potentially catastrophic, risks posed by AI? According to pioneerin...
The Politics of Disagreement with Steve Inskeep
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a time of a divided House (and divided GOP) — not to mention polarized social media — how can...
Martha, Martha, Martha (ICYMI)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re replaying you a summer episode where Kara and Nayeema took a field trip to Martha Stew...
Jon Lovett Talks Trump, Biden & the Podcasting Biz
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema discuss the defenestration of Kevin McCarthy, we turn to podcaster and politi...
Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema discuss Dianne Feinstein’s death and her legacy as a leader, we turn to Kar...
The Yoel Roth-Linda Yaccarino Showdown
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, two Twitter-related interviews rocked the stage at the 2023 Code Conference. Kara inte...
Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneurship and Why She Doesn’t Love Being Called “America’s First Black Female Billionaire”
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Johnson is best known for co-founding BET, a network she launched with her ex-husband, Bob Jo...
Is Biden the Best Democrats Can Do?
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Biden’s poll numbers are atrocious, and in recent columns from The Washington Post to The New York...
The Walter Isaacson-Kara Swisher Showdown
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Isaacson and Kara are friends — but that doesn’t mean she’s going to go easy on him as ...
How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Jewish comedian walks into an apartment in Queens to meet a group of white supremacists … This i...
Conan O'Brien Talks to His Accountant
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Late-night legend and podcasting impresario Conan O’Brien joins Kara to talk about the decline of ...
What Naomi Klein Found Down the Steve Bannon Rabbit Hole
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For years, Naomi Klein has had a problem: the author and Guardian columnist has been chronically con...
Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This Labor Day, we are re airing a fan-favorite episode about, who else, Elon Musk and Kara Swisher....
Barry Diller on Biden, AI and the Hollywood Shutdown
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Billionaire mogul and power broker Barry Diller doesn’t hold back (at all) as he takes us inside W...
WTF Can We Do About Deadly Wildfires?
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the tragedy in Hawaii — which has left at least 115 dead, and over a thousand more missing, m...
Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re talking about Elon – again – but this time we're looking at the big picture: the tech ti...
Ron DeSantis Won’t Stop Imani Rupert Gordon
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today after Kara and Nayeema take a quick walk down Rudy Giuliani memory lane, we turn to our guest:...
Big Companies Are Scared of These Lawyers
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Nayeema are back with a fresh episode, and this time they’re tackling the DOJ’s antitru...
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: Friendship — My Reliable Gift
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re sharing an episode of Where Should We Begin?, a Vox Media podcast hosted by the iconi...
Aging, Death and other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re re-airing one of Blakeney Schick’s favorite episodes: an interview with her former ...
Esther Perel on Grief — In Memory of Blakeney Schick
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kara & Nayeema are joined by Esther Perel in a tribute to our colleague and friend, senior producer ...
Is Chris Christie Really the Anti-Trump?
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we turn to Chris Christie. The former governor of New Jersey and Trump sidekick is running to...
Vinod Khosla’s View of the Future, From AI to China
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema discuss Senators Warren and Graham’s unlikely alliance on tech regulation, ...
Barbie & Oppenheimer & Strikes, Oh My
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood is still shut down by its historic dual strike, but this weekend the industry saw its most...
The Rewards of Stepping Out of Line: A Commencement Address from Kara
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This May, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art invited Kara to deliver its commen...
Fran Drescher on the SAG Strike and Hollywood’s "Fat Cats”
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, a conversation with one of the most impassioned leaders of Hollywood’s historic double stri...
The Crypto Founder Who Won a “Landmark Victory” Against the SEC
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood may be shut down, but one industry seems to be enjoying a surprising upswing: crypto. Kara...
The Fox News Love Triangle: Tucker, Murdoch and Trump
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fox News and social media are two arenas that will define the next presidential race. Today, after K...
Jake Tapper on Trust, Trump and CNN
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When political spectacles abound, how can the media focus on the substance and avoid the clickbait? ...
Oliver Stone on Nuclear Energy, Putin and the Path to Conspiracies
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a quick rundown of the summer’s hottest films, Nayeema and Kara turn to our guest today: acc...
Mark Zuckerberg: Oops! I Did It Again (Again)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a review of the last 6 months of “Meta” a.k.a. Facebook (including a looming Elon-Zuck cag...
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema debate the future of Hollywood (including the ongoing WGA strike and the soon...
Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wanda Sykes can find the funny in almost anything: lockdown during Covid, vaccine hesitancy, book ba...
Martha Stewart Makes No Apologies for Being Perfect
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Nayeema take a field trip to Martha Stewart’s 156-acre estate for an interview with the m...
The Weeds: We Need to Rethink Discipline in Schools
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This Juneteenth, we’re sharing an episode of The Weeds, a Vox Media podcast where host Jonquilyn H...
Inflection AI: Personalized and More "Woke" Than The “TruthGPT” Elon Might Make
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema debate the pros and cons of AI personal assistants vs. human personal assista...
Sorry, Donald. Jen Easterly Plans To Make Elections Boring Again.
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency into existence in 2018 with t...
Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema discuss recent moves at CNN and the ducking cool innovation at Apple, we laun...
The Man Making Self-Driving Trucks
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla’s self-driving ambitions (and the company’s recent recall) may dominate the conversation w...
Jeremy Strong, Alexander Skasgard and Succession Spin-Off Theories (Spoiler Alert)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema discuss the Succession finale and their theories on a spin-off, we turn to Ka...
Ukraine’s Tech Advantage
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Kara talks to USAID Administrator Samantha Power and Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minist...
A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema review the week’s A.I. news, including Sam Altman’s Senate testimony and ...
Lilly Singh on Making It on Social Media — and Hollywood
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After an update on efforts to rein in TikTok from Montana to Washington DC, we turn to Lilly Singh, ...
Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Mu...
How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI?
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a discussion about Elon and the new “Chief Twit,” Linda Yaccarino, we turn to a woman who ...
Watergate to Trump and Today’s GOP: A Throughline
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court sag...
Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Relationships are hard. When do you know it’s time to marry? When do you know it’s time to break...
Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a look inside a writers' strike that could upend Hollywood, Kara and Nayeema turn to today’s...
Snap’s Evan Spiegel on AI, AR, and – yes – TikTok
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Snap CEO talks about the challenges facing the company’s AI chatbot, how augmented reality gla...
Ron Klain on the Likely Biden-Trump 2024 Showdown
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s looking like 2024 will be another round of Biden vs. Trump. But will the sequel end in the sa...
Ben Smith on the Turmoil at Buzzfeed, Fox News and Everything In Between
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To make sense of a turbulent and important week in media, we turn to Ben Smith who was the founding ...
Larry Summers on the Politics & Economics of Envy
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We turn to economist and former Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, to help us make sense of infla...
Jen Psaki on Her New Show and Her Old Boss
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a quick rundown of how the 2024 presidential race may shape up, we turn to today’s guest: Je...
Inside the Elon-Substack Drama with Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Elon kicked off a feud with both Substack and his very own former Twitter Files ingénue ...
What Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy Have in Common (and Don’t)
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, after Kara and Nayeema discuss what the Dominion defamation lawsuit might mean for Rupert Mur...
WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani talks TikTok, Telehealth Deal on GLP-1/Ozempic and Why She Took the Job
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WeightWatchers recently announced a $132 million deal to acquire telehealth company Sequence and ent...
Brooke Shields: Stardom, Teen Girls & Social Media
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief discussion about the impact of social media on the mental health of teenage girls, Kar...
How to Make It in Media with Audie Cornish
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As she pens her memoir, Kara’s been thinking about legacy, but on this episode we reflect on the l...
Katie Porter: Taking Big Business to Task While Running for Dianne Feinstein’s Seat
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a quick discussion of last week’s TikTok testimony, Kara and Nayeema turn to today’s guest...
When Silicon Valley Invaded Texas
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence Wright has produced some of the most seminal pieces of journalism on scientology, terrorism...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re on the cusp of an artificial intelligence arms race that has venture capitalists drooling, r...
Reid Hoffman Talks Trump, Thiel & AI
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From AI and the recent launch of GPT-4 to behind-the-scenes pressure on Washington to resolve the Si...
SVB, IG & AI with Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a quick rundown of Kara’s Twitter feud with SVB-enthusiast David Sacks, we turn to an interv...
Walter Isaacson Is Writing the Book (Literally) on Elon Musk
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does Kara ever get sick of talking about Elon Musk? That’s a question Nayeema asks today, and they...
Jamie Lee Curtis and Donna Langley Take Us Inside Hollywood
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Kara sits down with Jamie Lee Curtis, who’s nominated for her first Oscar for “Everything...
Marc Benioff’s Toughest Conversation with Kara Swisher
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kara has interviewed Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff many times but he says she'd never b...
Is Bing Back? with Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is AI going to fall in love with you? Write your term papers? Or help you plan a trip to Belize? The...
How Much Damage Did Trump Do to America’s Standing In the World?
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and weeks after the presence of a Chinese spy balloon led...
Will Killing Section 230 Kill the Internet?
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Justice Kagan has asked, “Every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct. Why...
Welcome to AI Warfare
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI isn’t just changing search. It’s changing national security, too. Today, Kara talks to Trae’...
Ken Buck Takes On the Big Tech Boogeyman
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Ken Buck is a Republican from Colorado who’s decided to take on “Big Tech.” He tal...
Ruben Gallego Is Ready to Take On “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake for Kyrsten Sinema’s Seat
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Kara and Nayeema debrief the latest Elon drama (the Congressional hearings in which conservati...
"Donald Trump Has Made Democrats Great" (Again)
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Biden's State of the Union speech — and the state of the Democratic party — with thre...
Conservative or Liberal? This Prosecutor Refuses to Be Put in a Box
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Donald Trump to George Floyd and Tyre Nichols, the last five years have changed our national co...
The Big Business of Online Dating (Land of the Giants)
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Nayeema sits down with dating industry veteran Lakshmi Rengarajan and journalist Sangeeta Sin...
Mark Zuckerberg: Oops!...I Did It Again
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Meta announced Donald Trump would be allowed back on Facebook and Instagram, it wasn’t the co...
Has the Silicon Valley Bubble Burst? A Conversation w Jessica Lessin & William Cohan
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rapid-fire layoffs, activist investors at the gate and tumbling stock prices — tech has had a bad ...
Biden’s Antitrust Advisor Left the White House. Here’s His Exit Interview
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his first extensive interview since he stepped down as the Special Assistant to the President for...
Intelligence Squared: Swisher and Scaramucci Debate If Elon Is Killing Twitter
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we're sharing an episode of the podcast Intelligence Squared, which provides a forum for bala...