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6D AGO

Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

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2D AGO

Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television

The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.

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5D AGO

Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool

The Washington Roundtable discusses the Trump Administration’s decision to bar the Associated Press from Presidential events, Jeff Bezos’s dramatic makeover of the Washington Post’s opinion section, and why freedom of the press matters. Plus, what journalists can do to meet this moment. This week’s reading: “Why Aren’t We in the Streets?,” by Susan B. Glasser “What Will Democratic Resistance Look Like?,” by Jay Caspian Kang “The Peril Donald Trump Poses to Ukraine,” by Keith Gessen “Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.,” by Jon Lee Anderson “Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered,” by Bill McKibben To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line.

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3D AGO

Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and draconian executive orders coming from the Trump White House. But some state governors seem more willing to oppose the federal government than congressional Democrats are. In January, Governor Tim Walz, of Minnesota, tweeted, “President Trump just shut off funding for law enforcement, farmers, schools, veterans, and health care. . . . Minnesota needs answers. We’ll see Trump in court.” He’s only one of many Democratic governors challenging the federal government. Walz joins David Remnick to offer his analysis of why Democrats lost the 2024 election, why the Party has been losing support from men, and what Democrats need to do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

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5D AGO

Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast” and “Burma Sahib” and the story collections “Mr. Bones” and “The Vanishing Point,” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979.

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FEB 21

John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.

Feb 21

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35 min
FEB 25

Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards

Oscar who? The film critic—a true believer in the art of cinema—picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: The Brodys.

Feb 25

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16 min
4D AGO

Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”

Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, has published eleven novels, including “Brooklyn,” “The Magician,” and “Long Island,” which came out last year.

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FEB 26

Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?

The staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss why people around the world are having fewer and fewer children and how the issue of birth rates has become a rallying cry for the American right. Plus, the lack of political will on the left to contend with the issue; and the societal effects on South Korea, which has the lowest birth rates in the world. This week’s reading: “The End of Children,” by Gideon Lewis-Kraus The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan,” by Jonathan Blitzer “The New Trump-Family Megaphone,” by Jon Allsop “Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age,” by Antonia Hitchens “Team Canada’s Revenge, Served Ice-Cold,” by Louisa Thomas Tune in to The Political Scene wherever you get your podcasts.

Feb 26

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39 min
FEB 22

What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?

The Washington Roundtable discusses with the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond about President Trump’s attempts to claim broad powers, why most Republican lawmakers have fallen into line out of fear, and whether the United States has already tipped over into authoritarian territory. Plus, how the courts, Congress, and ordinary citizens might course-correct American democracy. This week’s reading: “The Crisis of Democracy Is Here,” by Larry Diamond “Trump’s Putinization of America,” by Susan B. Glasser “Pulling Our Politics Back from the Brink,” by Evan Osnos (2020) “Month One of Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Age,’ ” by Antonia Hitchens “We’d Never Had a King Until This Week,” by Bill McKibben “The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO,” by Dexter Filkins “The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction,” by Kyle Chayka To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line.

Feb 22

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31 min

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