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Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

11/03/2025 45:50From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

10/31/2025 46:30 How Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country

10/30/2025 01:00:59Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control

10/27/2025 27:48How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target

10/20/2025 28:52 Show all episodes

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If you're into politics and want a serious analysis into what's shaping our world, The Political Scene by The New Yorker is the right pod. With rotative hosts from the New Yorker team, you get all you need to know in half an hour episodes three times a week. From presidential campaigns to the impact of big tech in politics or how certain politicians become cultural icons, this podcast is like sitting down with experts who break down complex topics into something you can easily grasp over a coffee break.

Producer
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Host
David Remnick, Tyler Foggatt, Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos

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United States

Episodes count
267

Average duration
30'

Frequency
Three times a week

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Kimball MacKay - 09/09/2025
I love (or depend on) this podcast. Today, however, the folks talked about how little resistance to the stupid coup--the illegal, unconstitutional takeover by 'emergency' declaration by the head of this 'administration. But it was a little too inside the Beltway, or maybe too much inside the actual halls of government--the courts, the Congress. There was *no* mention of the demonstrations, the thousands of people in the streets--even right there in DC--the creative ways folks are warning others of ICE and responding to ICE (and the National Guard) when they show up. Nothing about the veterans challenging National Guard members, reminding then of their oath to the *constitution*. Nothing about the thousands turning out in Chicago and Boston in advance of the coming invasion. I'm not faulting them for what they *did* talk about but pointing out that there is more to the story than what happens inside the Beltway and that resistance deserves to be highlighted, supported, broadcast.