Podcasts

Donald Trump’s former chief of staff turned co-defendant wants the Georgia racketeering case against him moved to federal court. What’s his strategy, and what does it portend for the case against Trump?

Keith Gessen discusses whether the United States should encourage negotiations with Russia.

As Republican Presidential hopefuls took the stage for the first debate of the primary, Donald Trump’s mug shot reclaimed the news cycle.

How the tech billionaire built a one-man monopoly over American infrastructure and became too powerful for the U.S. government to rein in.

Donald Trump received his fourth criminal indictment this week, yet Republican primary voters appear unmoved. Can anything stop his apparent glide toward the G.O.P. Presidential nomination?

A congressional Republican and the head of the Sierra Club talk about the search for common ground on climate action. Plus, the fiction writer Tessa Hadley.

Anand Giridharadas joins Andrew Marantz to talk about the ultra-wealthy people supporting the progressive movements that want to end the plutocracy.

The former President has been indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and remain in power. How will the charges be litigated in the court of public opinion?

The staff writer talks with David Remnick and the singer Adeem the Artist about the increasingly polarized politics of Nashville. Plus, James McBride on his new novel.

Joshua Yaffa discusses the private military unit that used uncommonly brutal tactics in the war against Ukraine.

A stalled plea deal, political missteps of First Families past, and Speaker McCarthy’s step toward impeaching the President over his son.

The singer talks to the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent album, and the writer Alex Kotlowitz makes an annual pilgrimage to the northern woods of Minnesota.

Andrew Hickey has embarked on a heroic and wild effort to tell the history of rock music in five hundred songs.

E. Tammy Kim discusses today’s big stories of workers fighting back: the Hollywood strikes, the UPS tentative agreement, and the United Auto Workers’ expiring contract.

The fund-raising race among the 2024 Presidential contenders heats up as the G.O.P. front-runner, former President Donald Trump, braces for a third indictment.

David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, whose biography was the foundation for the new film “Oppenheimer.” Plus, Colson Whitehead; and Greta Gerwig on finding herself as a director.

How the previously untold history of the Bidens illuminates the story of the President’s second son.

No Labels is obscure but well funded. Could it have an outsized impact on the election? Plus, the journalist Donovan Ramsey on his chronicle of the crack-cocaine epidemic.

The climate activist Bill McKibben discusses this week’s weather, which he calls a “truly remarkable moment in the history of the planet.”

Our political roundtable looks at the privilege and pitfalls of the “second most powerful job in Washington.”