Rahm Emanuel is “Cautiously Optimistic” About the Democrats’ Midterm Prospects
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff under Barack Obama, for a discussion about the De...
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20 of 216 episodesHas MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump?
A growing portion of the electorate appears to recognize the mayhem President Donald Trump has instigated since returning to the Oval Office...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, to discuss his new documentary, “Musk.” Since July, Elon Mu...
What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterms
The New Yorker staff writers Isaac Chotiner and Benjamin Wallace-Wells join Tyler Foggatt to discuss what Democrats might do after the midte...
Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump
The economic punishment and threats of aggression that Donald Trump has launched against Canada are so severe that its government has looked...
Will Donald Trump’s Corruption Matter in November?
The Washington Roundtable weighs in on how Donald Trump’s rampant corruption will play out at the polls. Although conventional wisdom in Was...
Why Trump Is Pausing His Crackdown on Salvadoran Immigrants
The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to talk about Donald Trump’s decision to delay the cancellation of Temporar...
An American Journalist Imprisoned as a Spy in Russia
In 2023, Evan Gershkovich was working as a young reporter in Moscow for the Wall Street Journal, when he was arrested by Russian authorities...
Can Europe Still Trust America?
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, to discuss the war in Ukraine and Russia’s brazen tes...
Why Susan Collins Has Lasted So Long
The New Yorker staff writer Emma Green joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Senate race in Maine, where the Republican Susan Collins, who has...
Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics
Ari Emanuel is the executive chairman of W.M.E., one of the biggest talent agencies in Hollywood. He has overseen the careers of Oprah Winfr...
The Washington Roundtable Live: Can D.C. Get a Grip on A.I.?
The Washington Roundtable travels to Madison, Wisconsin, for a conversation about the politics of artificial intelligence before a live audi...
How MAHA Tore One Family Apart
The New Yorker staff writer Ruby Cramer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the Make America Healthy Again movement is influencing debates wi...
Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Malcolm Gladwell, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, often uses ideas from the social sciences and epidemiology and applies them to...
Introducing: “The Journey,” from In the Dark
The Washington Roundtable will be back next week. In the meantime, we would like to introduce “The Journey,” an audio investigation hosted b...
How, Exactly, Could A.I. Destroy Humanity?
The New Yorker staff writer Joshua Rothman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss recent calls from industry leaders to slow the development of A.I....
Colin Kaepernick, Ten Years After Taking a Knee
Colin Kaepernick had a stunning rise as an N.F.L. quarterback after becoming a full-time starter, in 2012. He was a legitimate dual threat—a...
Is a Blue Wave Really Coming?
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Amy Walter, the editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report and a political analyst for PBS NewsHour...
The Right’s Crusade to “Make America Hot Again”
The New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Wilson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the right’s embrace of lingerie and cleavage signals the chan...
Sarah Longwell, a Former Republican, on “How to Eat an Elephant”
The political consultant Sarah Longwell runs focus groups of voters, and she has a lot of advice for Democrats seeking to wrest control of t...