The New Yorker
Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 27:43
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
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- The actor talks with David Remnick about portraying the Facebook founder under pressure in “The Social Reckoning,” and why Strong felt betrayed by The New Yorker’s 2021 Profile of him.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Min Jin Lee on “American Hagwon,” Her First Novel After the Phenomenon of “Pachinko”
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- 27:14
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Three Novels About Women, Sex, and Ambition
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- What’s Min Jin Lee reading? The author of “American Hagwon” and “Pachinko” recommends three books about women, sex, and ambition.
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- Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics
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- 29:53
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, Elon Musk, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Do You Need 10,000 Steps a Day?
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Do you really need to hit 10,000 steps a day? Dhruv Khullar, a practicing physician and New Yorker staff writer, explains the surprising origins of this health trend.
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- An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future | The New Yorker Documentary
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- 26:57
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- In Brent Katz’s short documentary “Josh’s Wedding,” a group of groomsmen reckon with a technology that one of them is building.
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- Grandmaster Flash on “Birth of a Culture” | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 32:50
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- The d.j. explains how he worked out some of the turntable innovations that led to hip-hop as we know it, and why the Furious Five’s biggest hit was the beginning of the end.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Should You Avoid Seed Oils?
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has argued that Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils. But are seed oils—such as ones derived from canola, soybeans, and sunflower seeds—actually unhealthy? Dhruv Khullar, a practicing physician, explains.
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- Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 22:35
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem, in a conversation with David Remnick.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Throughout the Trump era, Jared Kushner has made a career of combining business and politics, growing increasingly entangled in the commercial affairs of countries where he works. He represents a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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- How The New Yorker Inspired a Fashion Designer
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Carolina Herrera’s Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear show took place on Tuesday at the David H. Koch Theatre during New York Fashion Week. For the brand’s 45th anniversary, the global creative director Wes Gordon took inspiration from a New Yorker cover from 1981, the year of Herrera’s first runway show. We visited Gordon’s atelier to chat with the designer about his latest collection.
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- Why Did a Mysterious Couple Collect Babies in an L.A. Mansion?
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan presented themselves to surrogates as a couple desperate for a child. In reality, they were in the process of obtaining dozens of children. Who was this mysterious couple, and why had they collected so many kids? The Journey, a new five-part podcast series from In the Dark, investigates.
All five episodes are available now to New Yorker subscribers, ad-free, on the New Yorker app and Apple Podcasts.
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- Colin Kaepernick Says The N.F.L. Underestimated the “Massive Support” for His Protest
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- In a new interview, Colin Kaepernick says the N.F.L. assumed that his act of protest during the national anthem would negatively impact the league because “they only looked at it from the perspective of white fans. The part that I think is under-covered is the massive support for the protests, and how that continued to grow.” He was not “bad for business,” he continues—in fact, his jersey went to No. 1.
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- Colin Kaepernick on the N.F.L.'s Response to His protest
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick galvanized a national conversation when he began taking a knee during the national anthem. In a new interview with David Remnick, he discusses the response to his act of protest and his disappointment in the players who didn’t publicly support him.
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- Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 43:53
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The former N.F.L. quarterback talks with David Remnick about why he took a knee, the culture of the league, and the consequences of political activism.
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- The Story Behind The New Yorker’s 9/11 Cover
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck the north tower, visible at the end of their street. They rushed to their daughter’s high school in the towers’ shadow, spending 90 harrowing minutes in the school before they located her. Stepping out, they watched the second tower disintegrate.
Shortly thereafter, Mouly was told that The New Yorker needed a new cover for the issue they were assembling, but none of the proposed images felt adequate to the enormity of what had happened. Then, she thought of a black cover, and Spiegelman suggested the towers’ silhouette, black on black.
For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Mouly shares the story behind one of The New Yorker’s most memorable covers—one that conveyed the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the tear...
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- Meet the Artists Behind These Viral Fake A.I. Ads
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have gone viral for putting up posters for fake tech products across the city. The campaign germinated about a year ago, when Alterman began noticing subway ads for A.I. companies that annoyed him with their promises to make existence easier, even frictionless. “It’s the same voice, which I’ve called slop voice,” he said. For the Talk of the Town, the reporter Bruce Handy visited a newsstand at West Fourth Street Station that the comedians took over with advertisements for nonexistent tech companies. “The ads conveyed just enough Silicon Valley messianism to be believable, and just enough absurdity to be funny,” Handy writes. “Or maybe it was the other way around?”
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- Is Coffee Bad for You?
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Is starting your day with a couple cups of coffee bad for you? Coffee is the most widely consumed commercial beverage in the U.S.: two thirds of American adults drink coffee every day, which means that more Americans drink coffee than tea, soda, or even bottled water. But is all that caffeine good for us? Dhruv Khullar, a practicing physician, discusses whether you should start your day with a cup of brew.
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- Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Way of Seeing
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Susan Te Kahurangi King has a riotous œuvre. In counterpoint stands the 75-year-old artist herself, who does not read, write, or speak. King, who was diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorder at the age of 64, stopped speaking in her early childhood. But give her a pencil, and pliant and playful interpretations of the world spill forth. The writer Laura Preston travelled to New Zealand to profile King, who may be the country’s greatest living artist.
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- New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Ten years ago, Frank Lowenstein, then the United States special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, presented President Barack Obama with maps of settlements by Israeli Jews in the occupied West Bank. The maps showed that the expansion of settlements crisscrossing the West Bank threatened the hope of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state there. Lowenstein’s maps helped persuade Obama, who was in the final weeks of his Presidency, to let the United Nations Security Council pass a resolution condemning the settlements, which most of the world had long considered violations of international law.
Ten years later, Lowenstein, now a policy fellow at the liberal Zionist advocacy group J Street, is still updating those maps, which show the breakneck expansion of officially authorized settlements and unauthorized (or not yet authorized) settler “outposts.” Lowenstein told David D. Kirkpatrick that the evolving maps have drained the meaning from those Obama-era d...
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- Can Our Reporter Find an Outfit for Burning Man?
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret-stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered. For the Talk of the Town, the writer and humorist Henry Alford visits a pop-up market in SoHo to find the perfect outfit for the Burn.
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- The Scientist Whose Darkest Experiment Was on the Children He Took Home | The New Yorker
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- 8:26
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his research on kuru, a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea. Over three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the South Pacific to live with him in the United States—an arrangement he framed in philanthropic and anthropological terms.
Years later, Gajdusek pleaded guilty to child abuse. Rachel Aviv follows the complicated afterlives of the boys he brought home, whose stories have never before been fully reported.
Read “The Children a Scientist Took Home” by Rachel Aviv: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/24/the-scientist-who-lived-with-dozens-of-children-from-the-south-pacific
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- Jessica Tarlov, the Lonely Liberal on Fox News’ “The Five” | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 22:21
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a Fox News panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of the President, who has encouraged Fox to fire her.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- The Boys at the Center of a Famous Scientist's Research
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. In the course of three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the Pacific Islands to live with him in the United States. Gajdusek cast the arrangement in philanthropic as well as anthropological terms, but the reality was darker. What became of the boys he brought to America has never been fully reported—until now.
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- Erin Brockovich on the Impact of A.I. Data Centers
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The environmental activist Erin Brockovich explains the drag that A.I. data centers have on communities.
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- A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar | The New Yorker
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- 7:34
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow drinkers' deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic.
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- Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Share Their Dream Blunt Rotation
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Who is in Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat’s dream blunt rotation? (Definitely not Donald Trump.)
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- Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Are Honored to Be Your Gay Awakening
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- 0:13
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Queer icons Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat on what it’s like to have caused so many gay awakenings.
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- Erin Brockovich Takes on Data Centers | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 21:29
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The environmental activist has launched a project to document community concerns about the boom in data-center construction across the U.S.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- How a Nobel Laureate Became “Untouchable”
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The virologist D. Carleton Gajdusek wrote sexually about his adopted children in journals that were printed by the National Institutes of Health. “I carried my lifelong pederasty into my medical career and succeeded in both with very few failures,” he wrote, two months before he died. “Without protectors I would never have succeeded.” In this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv reports on how institutions enabled the Nobel Prize-winning scientist—and the complicated afterlives of the boys who were in his care.
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- Alia Shawkat Doesn’t Think She’s Famous
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Maybe you know Alia Shawkat from her acclaimed roles in “Arrested Development” and “Search Party”—or, maybe, you went to high school together? The “Wrong Girls” actress reveals that she doesn’t really think she’s famous. “I get a lot of, like, ‘How do I know you?’ ”
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- Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Share Their Dream Blunt Rotation | Mini Interview | The New Yorker
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- 8:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat, who star in the stoner comedy “The Wrong Girls,” sat down for the New Yorker Mini Interview. Kristen reveals her plans for L.A.‘s Highland Theatre, which she recently purchased, and Alia discusses what it was like to star in “Arrested Development” at a young age. They also share their favorite of their co-stars’ performances, including “Spencer” and “Search Party,” and talk about what it feels like to be their fans’ “gay awakening.”
0:00 Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat: The New Yorker Mini Interview
0:20 What is your vision for the Highland Theatre, which you recently purchased?
1:51 What was it like to experience fame at such a young age?
3:15 What would you name a strain of weed?
4:08 Who are two actors that you would like to see in a buddy comedy?
4:25 Who is in your dream—and nightmare—blunt rotation?
5:42 Which scene in “The Chronology of Water" was the most difficul...
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- The Afterlives of the Boys a Scientist Took Home
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In this week’s issue, Rachel Aviv follows the complicated afterlives of boys who were adopted from the South Pacific by the scientist D. Carleton Gajdusek—who later pleaded guilty to child abuse.
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- Sam Smith on How “Unholy” Changed Their Image
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Sam Smith’s No. 1, Grammy-winning hit, “Unholy,” upended the public perception of them, they say in a new interview. “There’s something about the sex in the song and the sexuality in the music and also the fun and lightheartedness of it that I think just challenged some people’s tastes when it came to me.” Listen to the full conversation on The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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- Why Bernie and A.O.C. Want to Pause the Construction of Data Centers
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced legislation that calls for a nationwide moratorium on data centers to allow time for more research and public input on the issue. “This A.I. and robotics revolution is moving so, so quickly,” Sanders tells David Remnick. “It is so transformative that we have got to slow it down. It is going to impact every man, woman, and child.” Listen to their full conversation on #RadioHour at the link in our bio.
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- Bernie Sanders on Abdul El-Sayed’s “Extraordinary” Victory
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan “was the most extraordinary and impressive political victory in the modern history of the United States of America,” Bernie Sanders says. Listen to his full conversation with David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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- Bernie Sanders Says We Are Not Prepared for the Consequences of A.I.
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A.I. and robotics “will displace millions of workers,” Bernie Sanders says. “Are we prepared for that? No, we are not.” And the consequences will go beyond that: “This is re-altering the brains of our kids,” Sanders continues. “Reading skills are declining, writing skills declining. Cognitive capabilities are declining. A.I. will only exacerbate that.” On a new episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour, Sanders discusses the bill he introduced with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for a nationwide moratorium on data centers.
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- Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 21:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Why Are Conservatives Embracing Psychedelics?
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Ibogaine—a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub—has become a cause célèbre of the American right. Michelle Lhooq reports on how the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Donald Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace the drug.
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- What Scottish Food Does Ewan McGregor Miss Most?
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Breaking news: Famous Scot Ewan McGregor has never had a fried Mars bar.
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- Sam Smith on Their New Album | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 25:51
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Grammy-winning singer talks about “Hazel Eyes,” which marks a departure for them: these love songs are very much requited. Smith spoke with The New Yorker's Jeffrey Masters.
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Ewan McGregor Has Always Been a “Star Wars” Fan
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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Ewan McGregor is currently co-starring in the sci-fi film “The End of Oak Street” with Anne Hathaway; here are a few films that inspired his love of the genre (including, of course, Star Wars).
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- Is China Winning?
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- 2:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A decade ago, few people in Beijing would have predicted that China would challenge the U.S. anytime soon. China’s decades-long economic boom was slowing, and the government’s chokehold on free thought was sending ambitious people abroad. The Chinese establishment has abandoned that view in stages. When Brexit was approved, in 2016, the West seemed to be turning inward. The fight over COVID-19 vaccines provided a signal that the U.S. was splintering; the storming of the Capitol offered another.
For China, America’s retreat comes just as years of state investment, industrial policy, and diplomatic planning are paying off. In two decades, China has gone from producing about half as much electricity as the U.S. to generating more than twice as much, at far lower prices; in 2023, it installed more solar power than America has installed in its entire history. Evan Osnos reports on China’s tech competition with the U.S.
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- How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains | The New Yorker Radio Hour
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- 29:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”
This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by David Remnick. For more, follow The New Yorker Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. http://swap.fm/l/tny-radiohour-eBFv3Y
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- Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor on What 80s Fad They Want to Return
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, who star in “The End of Oak Street,” have a few things from the 80s they would like to bring back.
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- Anne Hathaway Wishes She Could Bring a Bird Back From Extinction
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- What extinct creature does Anne Hathaway want to bring back? Chivalry, and also the Spix’s macaw.
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- Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor Answer Rapid Fire Questions | Mini Interview | The New Yorker
- Runtime
- 5:52
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the stars of “The End of Oak Street,” sit down for a New Yorker Mini Interview where they answer rapid-fire questions—from what food Ewan craves the most when he’s not in Scotland to a film that Anne thinks everyone should watch.
“The End of Oak Street” is in theaters August 14th.
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- Kelefa Sanneh’s Song of the Summer
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- It’s always five o’clock in Margaritaville. 🍸 The staff writer Kelefa Sanneh shares his beach-country anthem of the summer. Read the full story at the link in our bio.
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- Inside the Nigerian Kidnapping Crisis
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
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- The Toxic Caterpillars Taking Over Europe
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In Berlin, and in many other parts of Europe, a species of toxic caterpillars is spreading. The oak processionary caterpillar, or “Eichenprozessionsspinner” in German, has hundreds of thousands of stinging microscopic hairs that can project hundreds of metres through the air. Contact with their hairs, which can travel through clothing and last several years on surfaces, inflicts excruciating rashes and can cause breathing problems. German news outlets have called the infestation a “citywide plague” and the government has hired a workforce to vacuum them up.
