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The Political Scene | The New Yorker — 159 episodes
Hungary Avoided Democratic Collapse. Can We?
Barack Obama in the Trump Era
Have Billionaires Gone Too Far?
Kash Patel’s Strategic, Frivolous Lawsuit Against The Atlantic
How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor
An Assassination Attempt and a Royal Visit to Washington
Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
Donald Trump’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home
What Pro Wrestling Taught Linda McMahon About Politics
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?
Is Zohran Mamdani’s “Sewer Socialism” Resonating?
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA?
Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case
How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War
A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
A Mamdani Strategist’s Advice for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms
How the War Has Reshaped Life in Iran
Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?
From Critics at Large: Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth
The Pentagon Wants an Obedient A.I. Soldier. Will It Get One?
Social Media Goes to Court
Pete Hegseth’s Holy War
The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled
The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
The Washington Roundtable on the Iran War
Special Episode: War in Iran
“Everyone is Overreacting” on the Tariff Ruling, Stephen Vladeck Says
How the Epstein Files Are Forcing a Reckoning with Power
How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA
The MAGA Agenda Is Sinking in Popularity. What Might Donald Trump Do?
What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein
What Happens When a Megalomaniac Begins to Fail
Can Anthropic Control What It's Building?
Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement
How to Protect the 2026 Elections from Donald Trump
The “Melania” Documentary Offers an Intimate Look at Very Little
The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump
From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Force
What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA
How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News
How Trump Brought Us to a “Rupture in the World Order”
Should Progressive Organizers Lean More on the Church?
With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan
Is Everything Going According to Marco Rubio’s Plan?
Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism
Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War?
Special Episode: After Maduro’s Ouster, What Are Trump’s Plans for Venezuela?
The Company Behind the A.I. Boom
How Should We Approach A.I. in 2026?
Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race
Isaac Chotiner Sums Up Politics in 2025
Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes
The Washington Roundtable’s 2025 in Review
How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy
Inside Trump’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center
Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
America’s “Bad Emperor” Problem
Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela?
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
Ken Jennings on Why Facts Still Matter on “Jeopardy!”
Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington
The Political Scene Live: A Year Since Trump’s Win, What Have We Learned?
Family Estrangement Is on the Rise. Are Politics to Blame?
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite?
How Zohran Mamdani Won, and What Comes Next
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
The Washington Roundtable Answers Your Questions
Have the Democrats Figured Out How to Win Again?
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series
How Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
The Ceasefire and the Business of Trump’s Diplomacy
How Much More Can Federal Workers Take?
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?
After James Comey, Who’s Next on Trump’s Revenge Tour?
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government
Will the Supreme Court Hand Trump Another Slate of Victories?
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?
Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
Is Trump the Roman Tyrant America's Founders Feared?
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE
How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein
Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court
Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy
Fiona Hill on What Putin Tells Us About Trump
Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party
The Scientists Studying the End of the World
Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News
How Bad Is It?: Trump Strikes Iran and His Base Hits Back
Why Israel Struck Iran First
Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed?
The Rise And Fall of DOGE
The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan
Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force
What Broke the U.S.-China Relationship?
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
The Oligarchs Are Fighting
The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King
Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News
Examining Trump's War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary
How Experts Became the Enemy
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up
Biden, Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President
What Is Jeff Bezos’s Plan for the Washington Post?
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery
How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism
Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich
How Bad Is It?: Andrew Marantz on the Health of Our Democracy
Cory Booker on America’s Crisis of “Moral Leadership”
A Politics of Fear Defines Trump’s First Hundred Days in Office
Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE
Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
Donald Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market
Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism
Why the Tech Giant Nvidia Owns the Future
Donald Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance
Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit
Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job.
Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?
Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants?
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington
Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?