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Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt goes deep on a consequential political story via far-reaching interviews with staff writers and outside experts. And, on Fridays, the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the latest developments in Washington and beyond, offering an encompassing understanding of this moment in American politics.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Political Scene | The New Yorker podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
How Democracies Die

#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Original Sin

#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Haves and the Have-Yachts
Dispatches on the Ultrarich

#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Strangers in their own land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
I, Claudius

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Wealth of Nations

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Blood telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
There Is Nothing for You Here

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Siege
Trump Under Fire

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fire and fury

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Supreme Ambition

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Sovereign Individual
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes