Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed Is “Not a Burn-It-Down Kind” of Candidate
Michigan’s Senate seat is a must-win for Democrats hoping to take control of the Senate in 2026. The midterms are reflecting a surge of ener...
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20 of 184 episodesObsession-Worthy Stories: A Washington Summer Roundtable
The Washington Roundtable reflects on the stories they’ve been following this summer, touching on the “power mourners” at Lindsey Graham’s f...
The Woman Who Took On the N.R.A. After Two Gun Suicides
The New Yorker contributor Mike Spies joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the story of a woman who lost two partners to suicide by firearm and th...
One Refugee’s Journey Through ICE Detention
In 2025, as ICE was struggling to meet an impossible goal of three thousand immigration arrests per day, the agency took an unprecedented st...
Congress Used to Work. What Happened?
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Carl Hulse, the New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent, to discuss Congress’s dwindling role...
What Biden Officials Wish They Had Done Differently in Gaza
The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Biden Administration’s failure to restrain Israel during...
Rahm Emanuel Says Israel’s Path Is “Not Sustainable Politically”
Rahm Emanuel is a Democratic Party elder, having served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and as mayor of his native Chicago for two...
Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s latest attempt to relitigate the 2020 election. In a prime-time speech on Thursday, he ar...
Can California Actually Make Billionaires Pay?
Dave Regan, the president of the prominent California union S.E.I.U.-United Healthcare Workers West, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Proposit...
How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
The Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, has officially been terminated. Its July 4th sunset date was part of Donald T...
The Platner Implosion, and What It Means for Democrats
The Washington Roundtable digs into the stunning collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate campaign in Maine, and what it means for the Democratic...
How the Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is Reshaping Executive Power
The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Supreme Court’s now concluded term and what some of the re...
From Critics at Large: An American Playlist
The Washington Roundtable will return next Friday. To commemorate two hundred and fifty years of the American experiment, the hosts of The N...
America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of m...
Donald Trump's Dangerous Politicization of America's Spy Agencies
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Jeff Stein, the veteran political reporter and founding editor of the newsletter “Spytalk,” to examin...
Robby Hoffman Thinks There Are Worse Things Than Being Offended
The comedian and actor Robby Hoffman, known for her role on the HBO show “Hacks” and her début Netflix comedy special, “Wake Up,” joins Tyle...
Hillary Clinton on How Donald Trump Lost the Iran War
The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down with David Remnick at the 92nd Street Y, in New York, on Monday evening, after the Tr...
The Politics of the Big Game
The New Yorker staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Louisa Thomas join Tyler Foggatt to discuss three recent collisions of sports...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Losing a Son in Gaza
When Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son, Hersh, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, she became a prominent spokesperson for the families...
Donald Trump’s Imperial Birthday Spectacle
The Washington Roundtable discusses Donald Trump’s eightieth birthday, on Sunday, with a look at the pageantry and spectacle surrounding the...