The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episodes
Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Republican Susan Collins has held one of Maine’s Senate seats for nearly thirty years, and Democrats, in trying to take it away from her, have a...
Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry this year, and one of ...
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staf...
Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary about the magazine’s past and present, “The New Yorker at 10...
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Her Film About William Shakespeare’s Grief
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chloé Zhao was the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director, for her 2020 film “Nomadland.” After taking a wide turn to create the Mar...
Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a California congressman, Adam Schiff was the lead manager during the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. He later served on the Ja...
Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker Noah Baumbach can recall when he may have fallen out of love with his craft. He was shooting “White Noise,” based on Don DeLillo’s...
Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his latest novel, Ian McEwan imagines a future world after a century’s worth of disasters. The good news in “What We Can Know” is that humani...
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Only thirty per cent of the American public identifies with the MAGA movement, according to a recent NBC poll, but that coalition remains intensely lo...
Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein files acknowledges that, on...
Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City’s cultural life, having mounted era-defining exhibitions such as “Black Male” and...
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When President Donald Trump began his tariff rollout, the business world predicted that his unprecedented attempt to reshape the economy would lead to...
Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue c...
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administration than J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. He seems a...
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is a...
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’...
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows t...
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But thos...
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire him for very different things. There are early com...
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least uni...
John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Halloween,” and so...
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broader public a year ago. Zohran Mamdan, who is curren...
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums, his hits too numerous to list, and he has endeare...
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active participant. As a Catholic legal scholar and phil...
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Evan Osnos—discuss how, in the wake of the reinstat...
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He wa...
The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She is the author of several books, including the gra...
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gi...
Kevin Young on His Book “Night Watch,” Inspired by Death and Dante
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Young is the poetry editor for The New Yorker, and the author of many books of his own poetry. His newest work, “Night Watch,” focusses on d...
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, w...
Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override”
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Tweedy is best known as the front man of Wilco, the rock band he formed in Chicago in 1994. In recent years, he’s been working more often as a ...
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation, analysis, and commentary circulated all summer, after the announcement, in June, that Anna Wintour would step back from her role as the e...
Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects”
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound. He’s a former punk musician and a master of accents, and he is now releasing a new album of sound e...
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The term “culture wars” is most often associated with issues of sexuality, race, religion, and gender. But, as recent months have made plain, when...
How Extreme Heat Affects the Body
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Korey Stringer Institute, at the University of Connecticut, is named after an N.F.L. player who died of exertional heatstroke. The lab’s main re...
How Big Tech Sets the Agenda in Trump’s America
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is the most tech-friendly President in American history. He enlisted social media to win office; he became a promoter—and beneficiary—...
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mohammed R. Mhawish was living in Gaza City during Israel’s invasion, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack. He witnessed the invasio...
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on a Reunion Making “Highest 2 Lowest”
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington first worked together on “Mo’ Better Blues,” released in 1990. Washington starred as a trumpet player trying to ...
Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With seven decades in film and television, Clint Eastwood is undeniably a Hollywood institution. Emerging first as a star in Westerns, then as the emb...
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous...
Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together”
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jamaica Kincaid began writing for The New Yorker in 1974, reporting about life in the magazine’s home city. She was a young immigrant from Antigua, ...
John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Donald Trump’s first term, he was furious that people were investigating his connections to Russia—“Russia, Russia, Russia,” he complained....
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the end of the Cold War, most Americans have taken U.S. military supremacy for granted. We can no longer afford to do so, according to reporting...
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. B...
Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is going on right now,” the writer-director Ari Aster...
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash from some of Trump’s most ardent supporters. Even ...
Carrie Brownstein on Cat Power. Plus, “Materialists,” “Too Much,” and the Modern Rom-Com.
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia”—writes about an iconic rock-and-roll ...
Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy. Plus, Susan B. Glasser on Why “We Are the Boiled Frog.”
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conservative economics, cuts to social services are often seen as necessary to shrink the expanding deficit. Donald Trump’s budget bill is someth...
Kalief Browder: A Decade Later
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kalief Browder was jailed at Rikers Island at the age of sixteen; he spent three years locked up without ever being convicted of a crime, and much of ...
U2’s Bono on the Power of Music
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, The New Yorker published a personal history about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfaith m...
“Super Gay Poems”
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, Harvard University offered a course on Taylor Swift. It was popular, to say the least. That course was taught by a professor and literary cri...
Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump is not just close; it can be profoundly influential. Trump frequently responds to segments in real ...
America’s Oligarch Problem
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A mega-donor to the Republican Presidential campaign, Elon Musk got something no other titan of industry has ever received: an office in the White Hou...
Why Israel Struck Iran First
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and even set a deadline for it. While arming proxies t...
The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The contributor Nicolas Niarchos journeyed for days throu...
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for more than sixty years. She was the youngest person ...
John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King”
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Seabrook’s new book is about a family business—not a mom-and-pop store, but a huge operation run by a ruthless patriarch. The patriarch is ag...
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and the debunked link between vaccines and autism into t...
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the music business, Brian Eno is a name to conjure with. He’s been the producer of tremendous hits by U2, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Grace Jones...
Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley Stahl, a linchpin of CBS News, began at the network in 1971, covering major events such as Watergate, and for many years has been a corresponde...
Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game; Plus, Remembering the Composer of “Annie”
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of The New Yorker’s centennial this year, the magazine’s staff writers are pulling out some classics from the long history of the publica...
Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only ...
From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night”
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode comes from “On the Media” ’s Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial,” reported by Katie Thornton. You know A.M. and F...
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, began the end of Biden’s...
Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, Percival Everett published his twenty-fourth novel, “James,” and it became a literary phenomenon. It won the National Book Award, and,...
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic senators to claim victory in a state that ...
How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that would have been familiar to Adam Smith. But Donald ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trust in vaccines and overseeing crippling cuts to res...
A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, there’s been a stark uptick in the level of violence and hate crimes that Asian Americans have experienced, but the “precarity of...
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions, and the rule of law, the Democratic respon...
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed new life into the well-worn comedic form of the roast. Last year, she performed a roast ...
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk, who’s chainsawing the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometimes described. Jill Lepore, the best-selling author...
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the story of a true-to-life tragedy about a police killin...
Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after its C.E.O. killed an editorial she wrote that was critical of the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. She...
The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition”
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Kitamura’s fifth novel is “Audition,” and it focusses on a middle-aged actress and her ambiguous relationship with a much younger man. Kit...
Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I Seriously
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qualcomm, Nvidia has all but cornered the market on t...
Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a profile of the religion professor Elaine Pagels—a scholar of early Christianity...
Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and issuing illegal orders, the focus has shifted to th...
A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to a...
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for Tucker Carlson’s the Daily Caller. Collins st...
We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of th...
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring ...
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and gold worth more than hal...
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dictatorial style of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s lean t...
Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actors light up a room, but Alan Cumming is more of a d...
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and draconian executive orders coming from the Trump W...
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick is joined by Alexandra Schwartz, the co-host of the podcast Critics at Large, and The New Yorker’s august film critic Richard Brody. T...
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the election, Senator John Fetterman—once a great hope of progressives—has conspicuously blamed Democrats for the electoral loss. Fetterman ...
Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Staff writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable works from the magazine’s archive, in a series ca...
The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Donald Trump’s first term in office, the American Civil Liberties Union filed four hundred and thirty-four lawsuits against the Administration. S...
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was directed by four Palestinian and Israeli fil...
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administration have been justified as emergency actions to ...
The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Treisman and the poetry editor Kevin Young. Treisman e...
Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—a coder who had figured out how to run a busines...
Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a deadly crime spree in Malibu; Kamala Harris’s r...
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sheds light on...
The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—discusses this week’s confirmation hearings for Pe...
Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threatened during his first term. That effort was challeng...
One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environmentalist agrees with him, to some extent: the jour...
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And although his district is in the heart of Silicon V...