The New Yorker Radio Hour
Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?
In Michigan, many voters—particularly Arab American and Muslim voters—remain deeply upset by the Biden Administration’s support for the Israeli military, in the face of the enormous death toll in Gaz…
Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
Actors and comedians have usually played Donald Trump as larger than life, almost as a cartoon. In the new film “The Apprentice,” Sebastian Stan doesn’t play for laughs. He stars as a very young Trum…
Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
Since the war in Ukraine began, the historian Timothy Snyder has made several trips to Ukraine, and it was there that he wrote parts of his newest book, “On Freedom.” The author of “Bloodlands” and “…
Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?
The political strategist Sarah Longwell has dedicated the last seven years to understanding why so many Republicans find Donald Trump irresistible, and how they might be persuaded to vote for someone…
Lake Street Dive Performs in the Studio
Lake Street Dive recorded their first album with money that their bassist won in a songwriting contest. They built a following the old-fashioned way, touring small venues for years and building a loy…
Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
In 2024, all eyes are on Pennsylvania: its nineteen electoral votes make it the largest swing state, and it’s considered a critical battleground for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to win the Wh…
A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Patti LuPone has been a mainstay on Broadway for half a century. She’s appeared in some 30 Broadway productions and has won three Tony Awards for her roles in “Evita,” “Gypsy,” and “Company.” And som…
Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
Of the sixty-five lawsuits that Donald Trump’s team filed in the 2020 election, Democrats won sixty-four—with the attorney Marc Elias spearheading the majority. Elias was so successful that Steve Ba…
Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx”
“I like to look at places that people aren’t seeing,” says Ian Frazier, the author of “Great Plains” and “Travels in Siberia,” and the new “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest B…
The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America
In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a nation long obsessed with color lines. Now that Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate for Presi…
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Take on Finance
In honor of what is for many people the final days of summer, the New Yorker Radio Hour team presents a conversation that may inspire your end-of-summer reading list: David Remnick talks to Hernan Di…
From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha?
This program is drawn from a new season of the award-winning investigative podcast In the Dark. On a November day in 2005, in the city of Haditha, Iraq, something terrible happened. “Depending on who…
For Republicans, the End of Abortion Rights Was a Dangerous Victory
At the Republican National Convention in July, a platform plank in place for decades that called for a national abortion ban was removed—right at the moment that such a ban has actually become legall…
Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?
Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains extremely competitive. And one factor very much in Donald Trump’s favor is an increased share of suppo…
R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone
The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone’s Profile, What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want? sheds light on Kennedy’s position in this Presidential race—and it also solves a ten-year-old myst…
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives for so long, and so effectively, that one forgets she was also the …
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 2)
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, and ever since Israelis have settled on more and more of this contested land. Violence by armed set…
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 1)
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, and ever since Israelis have settled on more and more of this contested land. Violence by armed set…
Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics
One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack O…
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to credential themselves,” Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Democratic politics who served in the Clinton…