Best Remnick Podcasts (2024)

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The Long Good Biden - with Amos Harel and Special Co-Host David Remnick 1:10:15

5d ago1:10:15

1:10:15

This week- New Yorker editor David Remnick partners up with Yonit as guest co-host. They discuss President Biden's decision to drop out of the race, Democrats’ newfound affection for Vice President Harris, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech in front of Congress. Plus - a conversation with Haaretz military analyst Amos Harel, on what’s ne…

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From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1 10:09

17m ago10:09

10:09

Today, we're bringing you a special preview of the new season of the New Yorker investigative podcast In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran. The series examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime. In Episode 1, a man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team…

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What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency 31:34

13m ago31:34

31:34

Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to credential themselves,” Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Democratic politics who served in the Clinton Administration, says. She was also the director of communications for the Obama White House, and then for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign…

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Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics 23:22

1h ago23:22

23:22

One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack Obama into the same conversation, they are kind of mistaken—it’s just this kind of wish-casting,” Vinson Cunningham says. But “what they do have in comm…

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What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign 32:22

27m ago32:22

32:22

Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to credential themselves,” Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Democratic politics who served in the Clinton Administration, says. She was also the director of communications for the Obama White House, and then for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign…

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Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon? 39:44

4d ago39:44

39:44

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the start of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and the surge of excitement among Democrats on the Internet and at rallies. Plus, who might be her running mate and how Republicans plan to launch “racist, misogynist” attacks against her. This week’s reading: “Biden’s …

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Best of PID—Michele Outland (Designer: Bon Appétit, Gather Journal, Nylon, more) 49:45

1h ago49:45

49:45

THE ARTIST AS ENTREPRENEUR — Michele Outland has spent her career at some really beautiful magazines. Beautiful ... because she made them that way. Her resume includes stops at Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, Domino, Nylon, and Bon Appétit, as well as the magazine she created and launched with her good friend, Fiorella Valdesolo: Gather Journal. Ga…

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The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris 51:28

40m ago51:28

51:28

The New Yorker staff writers and cultural critics Doreen St. Félix and Vinson Cunningham join Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kamala Harris’s sudden ascendence to the top of the Democratic ticket. How might her gender, race, and long political career from prosecutor to Vice-President shape the campaign ahead? “In a weird way, I think that she can run agai…

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard 17:38

13m ago17:38

17:38

Catalina Ituralde is the protagonist of the novel that bears her name, “Catalina.” In the summer before her senior year of college, she’s working as an intern at a prestigious literary magazine, and come fall she’ll be back at Harvard to plot her future. But, contrary to a life of comfort that this scenario suggests, Catalina’s situation is complic…

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Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch 39:23

26m ago39:23

39:23

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss President Biden’s stunning exit from the 2024 Presidential election and his endorsement for Vice-President Kamala Harris to lead the Democratic ticket. How could this new matchup change the terms of the race, now that Biden’s age is no longer a key issue? This week’s re…

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Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma 36:25

9h ago36:25

36:25

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss takeaways from the Republican National Convention, which Glasser reports had the feeling of “a very polite Midwestern cult meeting.” Plus, Donald Trump's selection of J. D. Vance as his running mate and the mounting pressure for President Biden to drop out of the race. …

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The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning 33:33

25m ago33:33

33:33

The movement to persuade President Biden—long after the primaries—to drop out of the Presidential race is unprecedented. So is the candidacy of a convicted felon. But this election season went from startling to shocking with the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the death of a bystander. Despite the unknowns, the contours of the race are be…

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Best of PID—Kurt Andersen (Author & Editor: Spy Magazine, New York, Studio360, more) 1:00:07

1d ago1:00:07

1:00:07

THE GREATEST STARTUP IN THE HISTORY OF MAGAZINE STARTUPS — We’ve always had a thing for magazine launches. They’re filled with drama and melodrama, people behaving with passion and conviction, and people ... misbehaving. Anything to get that first issue onto the stands and into the hands of readers. Some new ventures seem to sneak in the back door.…

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Trumps All - with Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ayelet Levy Shachar and Special Co-Host Bianna Golodryga 1:22:28

12d ago1:22:28

1:22:28

This week - CNN’s Bianna Golodryga joins Yonit as guest co-host. In the US - mere days after shots were fired towards him in a failed assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention - and introduced a running mate. Former Trump administration official now turned critic of the 45th president,…

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A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention 23:20

3h ago23:20

23:20

The New Yorker contributing writer Antonia Hitchens calls Tyler Foggatt from Milwaukee to offer some details and observations from the first night of the Republican National Convention, at which Donald Trump was formally nominated to be the G.O.P.’s 2024 Presidential nominee. An assassination attempt on the former President over the weekend only he…

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Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain. 22:14

15d ago22:14

22:14

During the 2023 New Yorker Festival, three legendary staff writers got together to discuss the craft of investigative journalism: digging for information like detectives, and then presenting it in a way to rival the best thrillers. For each of these writers, the “bad guy” —whose actions usually set the story in motion – needs to be presented in thr…

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Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong 27:13

40m ago27:13

27:13

The panic that gripped Democrats during and after President Biden’s performance in the June debate against Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. In January of last year, the Radio Hour produced an episode about President Biden’s age, and the concerns that voters were already expressing. But no nationally prominent Democratic politician was willi…

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Special Update - Attempted Killings, Worlds Apart 21:10

17d ago21:10

21:10

Two attempted killings, 14 hours - and a world - apart. In this emergency episode, Yonit and Jonathan discuss the implications of both the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania and the Israeli air strike on Gaza aimed at killing Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds behind October 7. With uncertainty still swirling about …

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The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024 42:37

16d ago42:37

42:37

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss President Joe Biden’s struggle to retain voters’ confidence in his bid for reëlection and his animosity toward the “élites” he says are insisting that he step down. Plus, Donald Trump’s campaign strategy amid Democratic turmoil and ahead of the Republican National Conve…

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Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong 28:36

20h ago28:36

28:36

The panic that gripped Democrats during and after President Biden’s performance in the June debate against Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. In January of last year, the Radio Hour produced an episode about President Biden’s age, and the concerns that voters were already expressing. But no nationally prominent Democratic politician was willi…

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Best of PID—Roger Black (Designer: Rolling Stone, Esquire, Newsweek, New York, Smart, more) 1:02:17

14d ago1:02:17

1:02:17

WHAT’S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER? — Roger Black is a pioneer. His art direction of iconic print brands and high-profile redesigns, his early embrace of digital publishing technology, and his typographic innovations are hallmarks of a 50-year, trailblazing career. He’s refined his design mastery at publications ranging from Rolling Stone to E…

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Joe vs. The Volcano - with special guest Ezra Klein 1:21:28

19d ago1:21:28

1:21:28

As Democrats weigh up what to do about Joe Biden, Yonit and Jonathan talk to New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein, who back in February became the most prominent US journalist to argue that Biden was too old to seek re-election. They discuss what Democrats should do now, as well as Klein’s recent reporting from Israel: how do liberal J…

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The Case for Using the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Biden 37:16

3d ago37:16

37:16

The New Yorker contributor and Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a once obscure constitutional provision that allows Cabinet members to remove an unfit President from office. Gersen believes it’s time to use it on Biden. “The Twenty-fifth amendment was designed for a situation in which the President may not rec…

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Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road 20:15

4d ago20:15

20:15

Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songwriter, is by turns introspective and theatrical, poetic and confessional. She sat down with John Seabrook at The New Yorker Festival in 2019 to reflect on her band’s rapid rise to stardom. She also spok…

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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel 18:37

5d ago18:37

18:37

Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who—with his shaved head, his hoodie, and the Zip Code of Braddock, Pennsylvania—could rally working-class white voters to the Democratic Party. But at least on one issue, Fetterman is veering away from the left of his party, and even from centrists like Majority …

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Remnick Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Keshet

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

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Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!)

Patrick Mitchell

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Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Food Network

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The Long Good Biden - with Amos Harel and Special Co-Host David Remnick 1:10:15

1
From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1 10:09

1
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency 31:34

1
Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics 23:22

1
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign 32:22

1
Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon? 39:44

1
Best of PID—Michele Outland (Designer: Bon Appétit, Gather Journal, Nylon, more) 49:45

1
The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris 51:28

1
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard 17:38

1
Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch 39:23

1
Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma 36:25

1
The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning 33:33

1
Best of PID—Kurt Andersen (Author & Editor: Spy Magazine, New York, Studio360, more) 1:00:07

1
Trumps All - with Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ayelet Levy Shachar and Special Co-Host Bianna Golodryga 1:22:28

1
A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention 23:20

1
Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain. 22:14

1
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong 27:13

1
Special Update - Attempted Killings, Worlds Apart 21:10

1
The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024 42:37

1
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong 28:36

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Best of PID—Roger Black (Designer: Rolling Stone, Esquire, Newsweek, New York, Smart, more) 1:02:17

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Joe vs. The Volcano - with special guest Ezra Klein 1:21:28

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The Case for Using the Twenty-fifth Amendment on Biden 37:16

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Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road 20:15

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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel 18:37

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