David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

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David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992...

He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. In 1988, he started a four-year tenure as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book on the former Soviet Union, “Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism.

Since Remnick became editor, The New Yorker has garnered a hundred and forty-nine nominations for National Magazine Awards and has won thirty-seven. In 2001 and again in 2005, the magazine won an unprecedented five National Magazine Awards; in 2014, the magazine won four awards. In addition, in 2000 Remnick was named Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year.

Remnick has written six books: “Lenin’s Tomb,” “Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia,” “King of the World” (a biography of Muhammad Ali), “The Bridge” (a biography of Barack Obama), and “The Devil Problem” and “Reporting,” which are collections of some of his pieces from the magazine. Remnick has edited many anthologies of New Yorker pieces, including “Life Stories,” “Wonderful Town,” “The New Gilded Age,” “Fierce Pajamas,” “Secret Ingredients,” and “Disquiet, Please!”

Remnick has contributed to The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Esquire, andThe New Republic. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has taught at Princeton, where he received his B.A., in 1981, and at Columbia. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein; they have three children, Alex, Noah, and Natasha.

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Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

Friday, April 10, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.

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How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine

Friday, April 03, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is helping Russia.

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John Lithgow on Roald Dahl’s Antisemitism. Plus, a Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice

Friday, March 27, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The actor discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. And a senior prosecutor who couldn’t abide his department’s prosecution of his father-in-law, James Comey.

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Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?

Friday, March 20, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on what regime change in Cuba could look like, and  the Pulitzer Prize-winner Ada Ferrer on the vexed history between the U.S. and the island.

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Social Media Goes to Court. Plus, Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet”

Friday, March 13, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Jonathan Haidt, who wrote “The Anxious Generation,” discusses the movement to limit social-media use by young people. And the director on her film, which was nominated for eight Oscars.

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The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran, and Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”

Friday, March 06, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the world. Plus, Coogler discusses his hit film, which received a record-breaking sixteen Oscar nominations.

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What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran

Friday, February 27, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the U.S. to pursue regime change in Iran again. And we hear from Iranians who are waiting, even hoping, for war.

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Conan O’Brien on What Can Go Wrong at the Oscars. Plus, the Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction

Friday, February 20, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The host of next month’s Academy Awards ceremony on what can go wrong on the big day, and the state of late-night television. Plus, Dhruv Khullar on new research into GLP-1 drugs.

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What Donald Trump and “Everyone” Knew About Jeffrey Epstein

Friday, February 13, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on what Trump told the Miami police and why the D.O.J. files make the public “more distrustful.” Plus, critic Richard Brody picks the year's best films.

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Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

Friday, February 06, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.

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The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump

Friday, January 30, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated.

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How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News; Plus, How Tucker Carlson Became a MAGA Prophet

Friday, January 23, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Clare Malone on the new guard at a storied institution; and the staff writer Jason Zengerle on his new biography of Carlson, “Hated by All the Right People.”

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With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics

Friday, January 16, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

A left-wing atheist reality TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channeling outrage with MAGA and complacent Democrats alike.

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Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism

Friday, January 09, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.” 

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Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino. And Rubén Blades on Bringing Social Commentary to the Salsa Charts

Friday, January 02, 2026

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The singer on his journey from a record-company mailroom to the top of the salsa charts. And Moore discusses some of her demanding roles from decades of filmmaking.

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The Company Behind the A.I. Boom. Plus, Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus

Friday, December 26, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Stephen Witt on the rise of the tech colossus Nvidia, and the geopolitical challenges it faces. And the religion scholar Pagels explains her enduring interest in “the invisible world.”

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Leon Panetta on the Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Boat Strikes

Friday, December 12, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The former C.I.A. director and Secretary of Defense explains the problem with using the military for law enforcement. Plus, Gabrielle Calvocoressi on their new poetry collection.

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The New Yorker: Politics & A Movie

Thursday, December 04, 2025

Hearing about 'The New Yorker at 100,' premiering Friday on Netflix.

Ian McEwan on Imagining the World After Disaster. Plus, Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney

Friday, November 28, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The novelist on his new book, set a century in the future. Plus, the director talks with the New Yorker editor Susan Morrison about his new film.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025

By David Remnick : Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

The financial journalist on the 1929 Wall Street crash, and the mounting concerns about an A.I. bubble. Plus, the curator Thelma Golden on the reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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