David Remnick

Host, The New Yorker Radio Hour

David Remnick appears in the following:

Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate?

Friday, March 26, 2021

Most states are moving to restrict access to voting. Federal legislation known as H.R. 1 aims to expand it. Jelani Cobb and Jeannie Suk Gersen discuss the war over voting in America.

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Some Complicated Tricks by Derek DelGaudio

Friday, March 26, 2021

The magician performs bewitching illusions, even in an interview.

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Remembering a City at the Peak of Crisis

Friday, March 19, 2021

April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal first wave, as it hit New York City hard. This episode documents twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

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Remembering a City at the Peak of Crisis

Friday, March 19, 2021

April 15, 2020, was near the apex of the coronavirus pandemic’s brutal first wave, as it hit New York City hard. This episode documents twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

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“2034,” and Torrey Peters on the Taboo of Detransitioning

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

A retired admiral and a former Marine wrote a thriller about how not to start a world war; and a novelist wrote a best-seller about a subject that most trans authors have tried to avoid.

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Can the Royal Family Withstand Oprah’s Scrutiny?

Friday, March 12, 2021

The historian Simon Schama and the staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss how the interview with Meghan and Harry plays into culture wars in the U.K. and the U.S.

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Torrey Peters on the Taboo of Detransitioning, and Britain Faces Its Meghan-and-Harry Crisis

Friday, March 12, 2021

The writer discusses how she wrote a best-selling novel about a subject that most trans authors have tried to avoid. Plus, Simon Schama and Doreen St. Félix on race and the royals.

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Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo

Friday, March 05, 2021

The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?

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Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo

Friday, March 05, 2021

The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?

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Anthony Hopkins on “The Father,” and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel

Friday, February 26, 2021

The veteran actor explains why playing a man suffering from dementia was no challenge. “When you’re working with a superb script,” he says, “don’t act too much.”

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Clubhouse Comes to China, and Anthony Hopkins

Friday, February 26, 2021

An app cracks a window of free expression, allowing Chinese people to discuss taboo political subjects. Plus, the famed actor on his role in “The Father.”

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Atul Gawande on the COVID Vaccine, and Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah”

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

The staff writer on the progress and challenges in defeating the coronavirus, and the actor on playing Fred Hampton, the martyr to the Black Panther cause.

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Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again

Friday, February 19, 2021

The Maryland lawmaker took shelter during the January 6th insurrection and then led the impeachment that followed, all within weeks of losing his son.

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Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again

Friday, February 19, 2021

The Maryland lawmaker on yet another unprecedented moment in our history. Plus, Atul Gawande on pandemic recovery, and the actor Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

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The Supreme Court of Facebook

Friday, February 12, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about content moderation to a new body called the Oversight Board. Now it must decide whether Donald Trump can get back on the platform.

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The People Who Will Decide Donald Trump's Fate on Facebook

Friday, February 12, 2021

A new Oversight Board launched by Facebook will be able to overrule the company’s own decisions about content.  Now it will rule on whether Trump should remain banned.

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The Supreme Court of Facebook

Friday, February 12, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg has outsourced crucial decisions about free speech to a new body called the Oversight Board. In collaboration with Radiolab, we look at how and why it came to be.

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Amanda Petrusich Talks with the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

The songwriter is part of a lineage of Canadian musicians who write about ideas, not just stories; her new album is partly inspired by climate grief. 

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Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It?

Friday, February 05, 2021

A family that was brutally victimized in Honduras is denied asylum in the United States because of Trump Administration changes to immigration rules. Can they find safety under Biden? 

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How Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers

Friday, February 05, 2021

Sarah Stillman explains how seemingly bureaucratic changes made asylum almost unobtainable under Donald Trump. Plus, a live performance from the Weather Station.

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