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Episodes

America at 250: A View from the Streets
May 19, 2026
We asked Americans what they’re thinking and feeling about the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.
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The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore
May 15, 2026
Three prominent historians discuss a national milestone arriving in the midst of a politically charged conflict over how Americans see the past. It’s a “goat rodeo,” Lepore says.
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Growing Up with a Mother in Prison
May 12, 2026
Harriet Clark’s new novel “The Hill” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talks with Rachel Aviv.
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Barack Obama in the Trump Era
May 08, 2026
The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Where is he, and why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?
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The N.B.A. Legend Steve Kerr
May 05, 2026
The Golden State Warriors’ coach on playing with Michael Jordan in his prime, what he’s learned about leadership, and how outspoken is too outspoken in the league.
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How a Trump-Endorsed Republican Could Become California’s Next Governor
May 01, 2026
Steve Hilton is leading in the polls in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by twenty per cent. Could he win in blue California?
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“Fat Swim” and Literature’s Fatphobia Problem
Apr 28, 2026
The novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her short-story collection “Fat Swim,” and the fatphobia she finds in contemporary fiction, with the critic Jennifer Wilson.
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Why Senator Rand Paul Voted to Limit Donald Trump’s War Powers
Apr 24, 2026
The libertarian-leaning Republican discusses his effort to restrain the President’s actions in Iran, and how he would campaign against other G.O.P. Presidential candidates in 2028.
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Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
Apr 21, 2026
The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.
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A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Apr 17, 2026
The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.
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Anna Wintour as Vogue Icon
Apr 14, 2026
Vogue is almost synonymous with its longtime editor, Anna Wintour. She talks with David Remnick about choosing a successor, and wearing Prada to the première of “The Devil Wears Prada.”
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Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
Apr 10, 2026
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.
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Pick Three: Spring Sports News
Apr 07, 2026
The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas on the season’s biggest basketball stories.
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How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine
Apr 03, 2026
Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.
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A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
Mar 31, 2026
Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it.
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John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling
Mar 27, 2026
The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist.
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Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory
Mar 24, 2026
Julio Torres got his big break as a writer on “Saturday Night Live,” and went on to make the cult favorites “Los Espookys” and “Fantasmas” for HBO. He also wrote and directed the film “Problemista,”…
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Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?
Mar 20, 2026
The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on what regime change in Cuba could look like, and the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ada Ferrer on the vexed history between the U.S. and the island.
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Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards
Mar 15, 2026
Zhao, a previous Oscar winner, for Best Director, discusses her acclaimed film with Michael Schulman.
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Social Media Goes to Court
Mar 13, 2026
Jonathan Haidt, the author of “The Anxious Generation,” discusses the movement to limit social-media use among young people, including a major liability case in the California courts.
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Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead
Mar 10, 2026
The director talks with staff writer Jelani Cobb about his movie, which has been nominated for a record-setting sixteen Academy Awards.
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The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
Mar 06, 2026
As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world.
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Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”
Mar 01, 2026
The creators of the financial drama, Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, explain what “finance bros” misunderstand about capitalism’s allure.
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What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran
Feb 27, 2026
The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the U.S. to pursue regime change in Iran again. And we hear from Iranians who are waiting, even hoping, for war.
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The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction
Feb 24, 2026
Dhruv Khullar on the latest research on GLP-1 drugs, which, typically used to manage diabetes and obesity, are showing promise as groundbreaking treatments for addictions of all kinds.
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Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars
Feb 20, 2026
The hit podcaster and host of next month’s Academy Awards ceremony on the collapse of late-night television, and the deaths of his friends Rob and Michele Reiner.
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Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards
Feb 17, 2026
The New Yorker critics Richard Brody and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the year’s best offerings, and how films seem to be getting better these days.
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What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein
Feb 13, 2026
The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on what Trump told the Miami police, and how the latest batch of files from the D.O.J. “makes the public more distrustful.”
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Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right
Feb 10, 2026
A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration.
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Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement
Feb 06, 2026
The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.
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