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On with Kara Swisher

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It’s On. Get to the heart of what makes powerful people tick — in interviews that have them sit back, relax and get grilled. Twice a week, Kara Swisher and her executive producer Nayeema Raz...

Episodes

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From ‘Trump Curious’ to ‘Trump Furious’: Inside the Midterm Odds

With just under two weeks until the midterms, Democrats have reason for cautious optimism. Analysts at the Cook Political Report project the...

69:15Oct 22, 2026

High Stakes with HRC: The Accountability Episode

Welcome back to High Stakes, a limited series from Kara Swisher and cohost Hillary Clinton. Ten years after Hillary called Trump Putin’s “pu...

63:27Oct 21, 2026

Patchett, Kingsolver & Lee on the Art—and Uncertainty—of Being a Modern Novelist

For literary fiction fans, 2026 has been a banner year, with new novels from award-winning American authors Barbara Kingsolver (“Partitia”),...

74:01Oct 19, 2026

Keri Russell on ‘The Diplomat,’ Powerful Women, and Loving the Mess

Keri Russell never dreamed of becoming an actor. But she’s built an impressive career playing nuanced and complex women in critically acclai...

56:00Oct 15, 2026

High Stakes with HRC: The Affordability Episode

The midterms are approaching, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Welcome to High Stakes, a limited series from Kara Swisher and the former S...

56:25Oct 14, 2026

Aaron Sorkin and Jeremy Strong on Zuckerberg’s Power and Facebook’s “Reckoning”

Sixteen years after “The Social Network,” Aaron Sorkin is back with “The Social Reckoning,” a new film he wrote and directed. It focuses on...

61:07Oct 12, 2026

Inside 'Musk': Power, Family and the Making of a Tech Demagogue

In his new documentary, "Musk," filmmaker Alex Gibney set out to answer two big questions about the world’s first trillionaire: How has Elon...

77:05Oct 8, 2026

Ari Emanuel on his New Memoir, ‘Ragent’ Reputation, and Changing Hollywood

Ari Emanuel built a name for himself in Hollywood as a firebrand agent filled with rage. In his new memoir, “Roll the Calls,” he reflects on...

60:04Oct 5, 2026

Andy Cohen Built the Bravoverse. He Still Thinks Like a Producer.

Kara sits down with Bravo network icon Andy Cohen, the host and executive producer of Watch What Happens Live and executive producer of the...

60:46Oct 1, 2026

Sir Michael Moritz on ‘Auslander,’ Identity and Life as an Outsider

As a longtime partner and former chairman of the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia, Sir Michael Moritz had a direct hand...

63:40Sep 28, 2026

Sherry Turkle Doesn't Buy the Promise of a Perfect Machine

Our relationship with the digital world is more intimate than ever before – and in her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We...

52:59Sep 24, 2026

AI Agents Went Rogue. Should We Hit the Panic Button?

Are the people building AI going to kill us all? That's the question sparking debate across the country right now. While fears of an AI doom...

61:37Sep 21, 2026

Jessica Tarlov on Winning Arguments and Elections

Jessica Tarlov says she has “the coolest job in media for a liberal.” As a Democratic co-host of The Five on Fox News, she knows how to navi...

71:43Sep 17, 2026

Flock Cameras, Meta Glasses and the Surveillance Backlash

Flock Safety, the company that makes the automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras used by over 7,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies, is...

65:43Sep 14, 2026

The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat MAGA for Good

As ballots start to hit mailboxes ahead of the November midterms, Democrats are finally feeling some long-awaited electoral optimism. But to...

59:00Sep 10, 2026

Why This Crypto Billionaire Wants to Slow Down the AI Arms Race

Ripple CEO Chris Larsen once told Kara he’d rather vomit blood out of his eyeballs than run for public office. But that doesn’t mean he won’...

52:12Sep 7, 2026

Three Mayors of Blue Cities in a Polarized America

Ahead of the midterms and what’s shaping up to be an intense political season, Kara speaks with the Democratic mayors of three cities dealin...

70:20Sep 3, 2026

Money, Hubris and Jeffrey Epstein: The Fall of Leon Black, w/ William Cohan

In his new book, “Money To Burn,” author and Puck journalist William Cohan traces the rise and fall of one of Wall Street’s most towering mo...

56:54Aug 31, 2026

Remembering Dolly Parton's Musical and Philanthropic Legacy

Across the country, people continue to grieve Dolly Parton, the late country music icon who spent more than 60 years making us cry, laugh an...

58:50Aug 30, 2026

Why Are You Like This? with Megan Rapinoe

Today we’re bringing you an episode of a new podcast called “Why Are You Like This? with Megan Rapinoe” from A Touch More and the Vox Media...

62:04Aug 27, 2026