Best Julian Mayers Podcasts (2024)

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The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris 51:28

2h ago51:28

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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

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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

2h ago39:23

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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

3h ago36:25

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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

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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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A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention 23:20

3h ago23:20

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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

8d ago22:14

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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

22m ago27:13

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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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The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024 42:37

15h ago42:37

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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

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

3d ago37:16

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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

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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

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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 …

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Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker” 30:49

8d ago30:49

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Fifty years ago, in July, 1974, The New Yorker began publishing a lengthy excerpt of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker.” When the book appeared, it ran more than twelve hundred pages and won a Pulitzer Prize. In vivid, astonishing detail, it shows how a city planner named Robert Moses gained power over New York City that dwarfed that of any mayor or …

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From “Inside the Hive”: How Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win 30:45

22d ago30:45

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With the New Yorker office closed for the July 4th holiday, The Political Scene brings you a recent episode from Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive,” hosted by the special correspondent Brian Stelter. Tina Nguyen, a national correspondent for Puck, and the Washington Post’s Isaac Arnsdorf, a national political reporter, join Stelter to discuss how Stev…

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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions 31:12

15d ago31:12

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At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page; instead, the election of 2024 feels like a strange dream that we can’t wake up from. Recently, David Remnick asked listeners what’s still confounding and confusing about this Presidential election. Dozens of listeners wrote in from all over the country, and a crack team o…

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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions 23:28

19d ago23:28

23:28

At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page; instead, the election of 2024 feels like a strange dream that we can’t wake up from. Recently, David Remnick asked listeners what’s still confounding and confusing about this Presidential election. Dozens of listeners wrote in from all over the country, and a crack team o…

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What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats? 34:26

27d ago34:26

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The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss President Joe Biden’s flubs, and Donald Trump’s lies, in the first Presidential debate. Plus, how American politics arrived at this point and what is next for the Democratic Party. This week’s reading: “Was the Debate the Beginning of the End of Joe Biden’s Presidency?”…

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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel 19:47

15d ago19:47

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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 Major…

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What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions 40:41

17d ago40:41

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The New Yorker staff writer Amy Davidson Sorkin joins Tyler Foggatt to examine the biggest Supreme Court decisions of the year—those already decided and those yet to come. They discuss the Court’s attempt to moderate its radical rulings on guns and abortion, its politicized selection of which cases to hear, and its influence on the 2024 election. T…

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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV 16:30

18d ago16:30

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Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum—who received a Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV critic—sees that the genre has its own history and craft. Nussbaum’s new book “Cue the Sun!” is a history of reality TV, and roughly half the book covers the era before “Survivor,” which is often considered …

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 31:51

1M ago31:51

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Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is the Western. One of his first big roles was in “Silverado,” alongside Kevin Kline and Danny Glover; he directed “Dances with Wolves,” which won seven Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture;…

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 32:35

22d ago32:35

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Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genres of movies, but a constant in his filmography is the Western. One of his first big roles was in “Silverado,” alongside Kevin Kline and Danny Glover; he directed “Dances with Wolves,” which won seven Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture;…

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What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 32:32

1M ago32:32

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The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss whether the debate will affect the outcome of the November election. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is the author of “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” joins the conversation to look at what the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate can tell us ab…

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Julian Mayers Podcasts

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The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris 51:28

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

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Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch 39:23

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

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

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A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention 23:20

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

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

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The Great Democratic Party Freakout of 2024 42:37

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

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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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Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker” 30:49

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From “Inside the Hive”: How Steve Bannon’s Prison Sentence Could Help Trump Win 30:45

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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions 31:12

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The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions 23:28

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What Does Biden’s Disastrous Debate Mean for Democrats? 34:26

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John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel 19:47

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What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions 40:41

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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV 16:30

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 31:51

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Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures 32:35

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What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 32:32

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