Discussions about politics and more.https://www.newyorker.com© Condé Nast 2024en-USMon, 20 May 2024 09:34:06 +0000https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-most-profoundly-not-normal-facts-about-trumps-2024-campaign6647db10d074dbbf996c220fSat, 18 May 2024 02:00:00 +0000In Donald Trump’s run for the White House, the former President is, again, breaking political norms.Podcast / The Political Scene Podcast2024 Presidential Election, Voting, Donald Trump, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/stormy-danielss-biggest-role-yet6645419ed56755c5c3aa4c44Thu, 16 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000Naomi Fry on the “epic battle of wills” she witnessed between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump during Trump’s criminal trial.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, Criminal Trials, Stormy Daniels, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-tiktok-ban-is-a-vast-overreach-rooted-in-hypocrisy-says-wireds-katie-drummond663ea40e0921a11776e13ac2Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000A prominent tech journalist sees Silicon Valley corporations making policy in Washington—and lawmakers refusing to regulate social media properly.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastTikTok, Congress, Social Media, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/will-young-americans-tip-novembers-election663e98945cd7ec221729dd4fSat, 11 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000Analyzing the issues that are most important to young Americans and whether their votes will affect the Presidential election in November.Podcast / The Political Scene Podcast2024 Presidential Election, Israel, Israelis, Gaza, Protests, Colleges and Universities, Voting, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-pure-chaos-inside-donald-trumps-criminal-trial663c0b6e583fb8390675ea45Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000Stifled by a court-imposed gag order, the former President must sit and listen to hours of “at times tedious, at times embarrassing, at times damning evidence against him,” the staff writer Eric Lach says.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, Criminal Trials, Stormy Daniels, David Pecker, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/randall-kennedy-on-harvard-protests-antisemitism-and-the-meaning-of-free-speech66355ff48d287a7957e754d6Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000“The word ‘safety,’ ” the legal scholar tells David Remnick, has “been very much inflated,” and defining antisemitism too broadly will have a chilling effect on academic freedom.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastHarvard, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Protests, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/who-should-be-more-worried-about-robert-f-kennedy-jr-biden-or-trump66355a7fa6d186f49af76f90Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000“He’s not a serious threat in terms of being able to win,” Jane Mayer says, “but he is potentially a serious threat in being able to spoil this election for one side or the other.”Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastJoseph Biden, Donald Trump, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/why-is-marjorie-taylor-greene-trying-to-oust-house-speaker-mike-johnson6632ae43837ea3b674818e9bThu, 02 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000Even her opponents within the Republican Party stand to profit from the Georgia congresswoman’s latest outburst.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastMarjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Party, Congress, House of RepresentativesCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/georgias-secretary-of-state-prepares-for-another-election6631030be91d815132326709Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:00:00 +0000Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, refused to “find” votes for Donald Trump in 2020. Amid threats, he says he’s ready for voters to cast their ballots in 2024.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastGeorgia, Voting, 2024 Presidential Election, Presidential Elections, Donald TrumpCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/trumps-bonkers-immunity-claim-with-neal-katyal662c26159ee018c22d6eb745Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000Analyzing the former President’s quest for protection from prosecution before the U.S. Supreme Court.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, Supreme Court, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/a-student-journalist-explains-the-protests-at-yale662990bbe2dc89bb2ae06255Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:00:00 +0000The editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News reports on the arrest of fellow-students on campus this week.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastProtests, Israel, Israelis, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinians, Yale University, Colleges and Universities, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/jonathan-haidt-on-the-anxious-generation6622c910452d49749c2caf23Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000The evidence implicating social-media apps, the social psychologist says, is not another moral panic over technology. “Actually, this time is different,” he insists. “Here’s why.”Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastSocial Media, Psychology, Millennials, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-morality-play-inside-trumps-courtroom6622da6efe01ba21833edf54Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000“This idea of the old ‘Teflon Don’ is just finished,” Evan Osnos says. “The guy is now a creature of the court.”Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, Criminal Trials, Joseph BidenCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/ronan-farrow-on-the-scheme-at-the-heart-of-trumps-new-york-trial66205abac130600fcb54c3d4Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:25:24 +0000A back-room deal between the former President, his then lawyer, and the C.E.O. of American Media plays a central role in the criminal felony charges he faces in Manhattan.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, New York City, Criminal Trials, National Enquirer, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/a-bipartisan-effort-to-carve-out-exemptions-to-texass-abortion-ban6619a76b31d884910169c778Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect the lives of some women who need abortions—and protect their doctors from prosecution.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastRepublicans, Texas, Abortion, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/will-an-1864-abortion-law-doom-trump-in-arizona6619aa0f0de1c77313503763Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000Understanding the current politics around abortion, Arizona’s Civil War-era ban, and how the issue of reproductive health care will affect both parties’ chances in November.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastPolitics, Abortion, Arizona, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-to-expect-from-trumps-first-criminal-trial6617284f9a0b293197ee4fceThu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000A cast of characters from Donald Trump’s past is due to appear in the first-ever criminal trial of a former President of the United States.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, New York City, Criminal TrialsCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-attack-on-black-history-in-schools66106d2c432d3b0b1e77bc7bMon, 08 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000Why are so many states restricting what schools can teach about racism? Two leading journalist-historians discuss the efforts to ban or rewrite the teaching of Black history.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastHigher Education, Racism, Schools, History, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/after-the-world-central-kitchen-attack-how-far-will-biden-shift-on-israel661072758b7db03d9b078138Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000“There is a degree to which Biden has looked around and realized,” Evan Osnos says, “that he had to catch up to where the country was.”Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastPolitics, Joseph Biden, Israel, GazaCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-should-reporters-cover-donald-trump660dc460f2141d9a92448cbfWed, 03 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000As Trump faces his first criminal trial in New York, reporters continue to encounter challenges in covering the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee and his supporters.Podcast / The Political Scene PodcastDonald Trump, Joe Biden, Media, Fox News, CNN, NBC, AudioCondé Nast