Adam joined The New Yorker Radio Hour after launching Samantha Bee’s podcast Full Release, for which he served as executive producer. He was a senior associate producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for five seasons. Adam was an editor-reporter at NBC News for nearly a decade and has been a contributor for The Daily Beast and Playboy. He has also worked as a curator, artist, and live performer in New York City.
Adam Howard appears in the following:
Why Is Leaving MAGA So Difficult?
Friday, November 21, 2025
Rich Logis was a MAGA warrior before he hung up his red hat, and founded the organization Leaving MAGA to help others do the same. He speaks with Radio Hour producer Adam Howard.
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
Friday, October 17, 2025
The staff writer Emma Green reports on how the MAGA movement aims to implement fundamental change in both private and public colleges, and in how Americans think about education.
John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
Friday, October 10, 2025
The director stopped shooting movies years ago to focus on writing film scores and his own records. He shares some inspirational work from film history with the producer Adam Howard.
Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films
Friday, August 08, 2025
The New Yorker critic explains which movies by the filmmaker he loves most—and why.
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
Friday, July 25, 2025
Rapid changes in technology are rendering American supremacy in highly advanced, expensive weapons a thing of the past. Can the military adapt in time for the next conflict?
Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
Friday, July 18, 2025
Ari Aster’s neo-noir Western involves a gun-toting sheriff, COVID, the George Floyd protests, and a mysterious A.I. data center. The writer-director talks with Adam Howard.
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
Friday, June 06, 2025
An autism researcher on Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation.
The Power and Stakes of #TeslaTakedown
Friday, April 18, 2025
An organizer in the grassroots protest effort discusses why she joined the movement, and describes protesters’ fears of government interference.
We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE
Friday, March 14, 2025
Workers share what life is like under Trump’s budget cuts, and why they’re speaking out.
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
Friday, February 07, 2025
The staff writer Jelani Cobb talks about the Trump Administration’s attempts to root out policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion—which it describes as discriminatory.
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
Friday, December 20, 2024
The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu,” Plus, a Christmas Story in Tehran
Friday, December 20, 2024
The actor discusses Robert Eggers’s film, which aims to make vampires scary again. Plus, a minister travels to Iran to celebrate Christmas during the 1979 hostage crisis.
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Friday, December 20, 2024
In 1979, a minister received a telegram from Iranian militants who had taken hostages in the American embassy, inviting him to perform Christmas services. Two days later, he was inside.
Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now
Friday, November 01, 2024
The MSNBC host says that Trump’s authoritarian message is timeless. “You can sell [it] to people who are in great need of relief,” she says. “But you can also sell it to billionaires.”
The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
Friday, October 18, 2024
Alexis McGill Johnson discusses lobbying for a Democratic “trifecta” in Washington—and what a second Trump Administration would do on abortion rights in America.
Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?
Friday, September 20, 2024
The Republican strategist Sarah Longwell explains what she’s hearing in focus groups from swing-state voters, and those who’ve “flipped” between Democratic and Republican candidates.
Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
Friday, September 13, 2024
The deeply purple swing state is key to this election. The Democratic governor, a runner-up for Harris’s Vice-Presidential pick, explains how she can win.
Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
Friday, September 06, 2024
The Democrats’ top legal strategist in the 2020 Presidential election won nearly every lawsuit brought by Trump’s team. He explains why the threat to democracy is far greater in 2024.
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
Thursday, August 08, 2024
The Speaker Emerita played a leading role in pushing the Biden Administration’s legislative agenda through Congress. Then she helped clear the path for a new Democratic leadership.
March Madness 2024: College Basketball at a Crossroads
Friday, March 15, 2024
The staff writer Louisa Thomas talks with the former sportswriter David Remnick about why men’s college basketball suffers a state of malaise, while the women’s game is electrifying.
