The Political Scene The New Yorker

The Political Scene The New Yorker
Welcome to "The Political Scene by The New Yorker," a riotous romp through the sometimes tumultuous, always tantalizing world of politics, where facts are like family: messy, argumentative, but ultimately lovable. Hosted by two bright sparks of political journalism, Dorothy Wickenden and Ryan Lizza, they've swapped the silent halls of The New Yorker for the humbling echo of the podcast world. Here, they tackle every jab, jape, and jest of the political climate. Ideal for politically incisive minds, news junkies, or anyone who loves a good verbal tussle. Don't forget the popcorn as they navigate the circus of government absurdity! One riveting episode? "Democracy vs. Autocracy," where the age-old debate finally gets its podcast pants on. Dive in deeper, if you dare, and absorb the intellectual banquet. A feast your cerebellum can sink its teeth into.

Latest The Political Scene The New Yorker Episodes

Examining Trump's War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

How Experts Became the Enemy

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Biden, Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

What Is Jeff Bezos’s Plan for the Washington Post?

Wed, 14 May 2025 21:40:38 -0000
read more

Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”

Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:28:21 -0000
read more

How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism

Mon, 05 May 2025 03:35:31 -0000
read more

Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

How Bad Is It?: Andrew Marantz on the Health of Our Democracy

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Cory Booker on America’s Crisis of “Moral Leadership”

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

A Politics of Fear Defines Trump’s First Hundred Days in Office

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:07:58 -0000
read more

How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Donald Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:53:49 -0000
read more

Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:30:04 -0000
read more

Why the Tech Giant Nvidia Owns the Future

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Donald Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:15:05 -0000
read more

Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:48:04 -0000
read more

Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:56:56 -0000
read more

Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants?

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:45 -0000
read more

How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
read more

America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

Eric Adams and Donald Trump’s Curious Alliance

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

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

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:30:14 -0000
read more

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

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000
read more

Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Power

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:24:00 -0000
read more

Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
read more

How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:24:00 -0000
read more

Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:35:06 -0000
read more

Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:21:03 -0000
read more

From Critics at Large: The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Why Banning TikTok Could Violate the First Amendment

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Remembering Jimmy Carter, a “President Out of Time”

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0000
read more

How Henry Kissinger Accumulated and Wielded Power

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:00:00 -0000
read more

Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Is Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Transition Working?

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

How the Trump Indictments Backfired

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

How to Prepare for Trump 2.0

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0000
read more

What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:45:00 -0000
read more

Donald Trump Returns. What Now?

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

How Trump Took Back America

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:04:34 -0000
read more

Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
read more

Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:49:49 -0000
read more

Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:50:00 -0000
read more

Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The Lies Are Winning

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:15:00 -0000
read more

How Poll Watchers Could Help Trump Challenge the Election Results

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:55:00 -0000
read more

The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:00:00 -0000
read more

What Billionaires See in Donald Trump

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:20:00 -0000
read more

How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:10:00 -0000
read more

How Kamala Harris Became a Contender

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:50:00 -0000
read more

What Motivates Kamala Harris?

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:45:00 -0000
read more

What Some Gaza Protest Voters See in Trump

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:10:00 -0000
read more

Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:20:00 -0000
read more

Will J. D. Vance’s Debate Victory Matter on Election Day?

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:45:00 -0000
read more

Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The Election Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:43:07 -0000
read more

From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:05:00 -0000
read more

Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:00:00 -0000
read more

Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:35:33 -0000
read more

Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:40:01 -0000
read more

Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:52:21 -0000
read more

Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:45:00 -0000
read more

What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:40:55 -0000
read more

The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:13:25 -0000
read more

Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of ‘Hope’ Campaign”

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:56:53 -0000
read more

Unity, Millennial Cringe, And Overwhelming Relief Abound at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:27:19 -0000
read more

Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

What the Harris Campaign Needs to Win, with James Carville and Paul Begala

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 03:10:00 -0000
read more

Elon Musk’s Pivot from Online Troll to Political Machinator

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:08:35 -0000
read more

Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The Harris-Walz Reboot

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:50:00 -0000
read more

Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Decoding the “Compelling” Attack Ads of the 2024 Campaign

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 02:43:23 -0000
read more

J. D. Vance’s Rough Rollout and Kamala Harris’s Veepstakes

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:05:00 -0000
read more

From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon?

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:35:00 -0000
read more

The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:50:00 -0000
read more

Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:43:42 -0000
read more

Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:50:00 -0000
read more

A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:35:00 -0000
read more

Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:07:35 -0000
read more

The Case for Using the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Biden

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:12:58 -0000
read more

John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

From “Inside the Hive”: How Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:00 -0000
read more

The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats?

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 02:50:00 -0000
read more

What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:35:00 -0000
read more

Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Could the 2024 Election Be Decided by Memes?

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:54:37 -0000
read more

Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:20:00 -0000
read more

Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:02:21 -0000
read more

Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration and the Politically “Toxic” Puzzle of the Border

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:30:00 -0000
read more

Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 02:23:23 -0000
read more

What Do We Know About How the World Might End?

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:55:00 -0000
read more

The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:00 -0000
read more

A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial

Fri, 31 May 2024 23:55:00 -0000
read more

Sam Altman Dreams of an A.I. Girlfriend

Wed, 29 May 2024 20:15:00 -0000
read more

How the Reality-TV Industry Mistreats Its Stars

Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Why Vladimir Putin’s Family Is Learning Mandarin

Sat, 25 May 2024 00:30:00 -0000
read more

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Why He’s Running

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

The Most Profoundly Not-Normal Facts About Trump’s 2024 Campaign

Sat, 18 May 2024 01:35:00 -0000
read more

Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet

Thu, 16 May 2024 01:30:00 -0000
read more

The TikTok Ban Is “a Vast Overreach, Rooted in Hypocrisy,” Wired’s Katie Drummond says

Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Will Young Americans Tip November’s Election?

Sat, 11 May 2024 02:45:00 -0000
read more

The Pure Chaos Inside Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial

Thu, 09 May 2024 00:25:00 -0000
read more

Randall Kennedy on Harvard Protests, Antisemitism, and the Meaning of Free Speech

Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.– Biden or Trump?

Sat, 04 May 2024 02:00:00 -0000
read more

Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?

Wed, 01 May 2024 23:00:00 -0000
read more

Georgia’s Secretary of State Prepares for Another Election

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:00:00 -0000
read more

Trump’s “Bonkers” Immunity Claim, with Neal Katyal

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:55:00 -0000
read more

A Student Journalist Explains the Protests at Yale

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more

Jonathan Haidt on “The Anxious Generation”

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000
read more