David Remnick
David Remnick uses long-form reporting and interviews to examine political power, the people who wield it, and the way politics cuts through culture and public life. As editor of The New Yorker and a long-time staff writer, he works across print and audio, moving between essays on Trump-era institutions and conversations with central figures in politics, media, and the arts. His politics coverage leans toward how leaders, advisers, and cultural figures construct narratives of authority, conflict, and identity, rather than day-to-day tactical news.
Trump, Institutions, and Political Power
Remnick returns repeatedly to Donald Trump and the political ecosystem around him, treating the Trump years as a test of institutions and political norms. In his piece on Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s book “Regime Change,” he reads the chronicle of Trump’s second term as a sustained indictment of how the White House used power, describing it as “a disaster foretold.”
He writes on Jared Kushner’s informal foreign-policy portfolio in “How Jared Kushner Made Foreign Policy His Business,” focusing on how a family adviser accumulates international influence with little regard for diplomatic craft. Coverage such as “Life Inside Trump’s Justice Department” and “The President’s Passion Project” stays close to civil servants, aides, and favored initiatives, showing how loyalty, fear, and personal obsession shape decision-making.
He extends this lens to Trump’s extended circle and lineage of influence. A conversation with Kai Bird on Roy Cohn frames Cohn as a “founding father of Donald Trump’s America,” connecting an earlier era of legal hardball to the ethos of the current movement. The profile “Dana White Thinks Everyone Is a Fighter - Especially Donald Trump” uses a sports impresario to explore how Trump’s image as a fighter is curated and sold through spectacle, branding, and grievance.
Interviews with figures such as Ari Emanuel on business with Trump and other powerful men further trace how money, media, and politics blur into one another.
The New Yorker Radio Hour and Political Interviews
As host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, Remnick uses interviews and reported segments to track stress points in democratic systems and political culture. Episodes on Israel’s judicial overhaul and the mass protests against it put philosophers and writers at the center of the conversation, emphasizing the moral and civic questions behind institutional changes. Segments such as “In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?” take up the question of age in presidential politics, bringing together historians, reporters, and medical expertise to probe how voters think about longevity and capacity in office.
He also devotes time to the Supreme Court’s treatment of affirmative action, focusing on what the end of race-conscious admissions would mean for universities and the broader social contract.
His interviews often foreground reporters and watchdogs who confront disinformation and impunity.
A Radio Hour story on a local paper’s early reporting about George Santos highlights how robust fact-finding can be ignored when political parties and national media choose not to act. Conversations with Bob Woodward about his Trump tapes look at what sustained documentation reveals about a volatile presidency during crisis.
More recently, a Radio Hour episode with Evan Gershkovich examines the ordeal of a journalist imprisoned in Russia, turning a single case into a broader exploration of press freedom, espionage charges, and authoritarian control.
Culture, Sport, and Public Controversy
Remnick’s politics beat runs through culture and sport, where he tracks how artists and athletes become flash points in public argument. In “Jeremy Strong Is Not Quite Over It,” he talks with the actor about playing Mark Zuckerberg and Roy Cohn, using Strong’s roles to examine how cinema portrays tech power, political ruthlessness, and the legacy of the Trump era.
His interview with Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing” looks at gun violence as a distinct American political and cultural problem, focusing on the dynamics of under-policing, over-incarceration, and policy failure. Radio Hour conversations with musicians such as Grandmaster Flash and Margo Price, and with figures like Kirk Douglas of the Roots, treat their work as part of a larger story about inequality, protest, and national identity.
Sport enters his coverage when it reveals fault lines in race, patriotism, and power. In his discussion with Colin Kaepernick, he follows the backlash against the quarterback to show how protest inside a major league becomes a test of corporate tolerance, fan expectations, and political messaging. Episodes with guests such as Sam Smith, and pieces on cultural controversies, trace how personal identity and artistic choices quickly become politicized in the current environment.
Across these stories, he uses cultural figures not as entertainment subjects but as case studies in how institutions and audiences respond when politics arrives in the arena or on the stage.
Books, Writers, and Long-Form Profiles
Alongside current politics, Remnick devotes substantial attention to books and writers whose work intersects with power and public memory.
He has written and edited profiles of figures such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, Leonard Cohen, and Mavis Staples, treating their careers as narratives of influence in politics, media, literature, and music. Essays like “Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold” show him reading political books closely, weighing new reporting against what is already known and asking what will remain consequential long after publication. Interviews with novelists such as Min Jin Lee about “American Hagwon” place fiction inside debates about education, migration, and the stories a country tells about itself.
His long-form work often ties back to the same questions - how leaders build power, how institutions bend or hold, and how artists and writers record those changes over time. Whether in print profiles, critical essays, or conversations on The New Yorker Radio Hour, he favors deeply reported, personality-driven narratives that connect individual decisions to wider political and cultural consequences.
This combination of editorial authority, narrative reporting, and high-level interviews makes his politics coverage especially focused on the intersection of power, reputation, and the stories that endure.
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A.D. Quig
A.D. Quig follows money and power through Chicago and Cook County government, showing how political decisions, taxes and public spending affect residents and businesses. At the Chicago Tribune, she covers city and county politics, municipal finance, tax policy, budgets and the structures shaping mayoral and council authority. She joined the Tribune in 2022 after covering politics for Crain’s Chicago Business and The Daily Line. Her work examines council power, ethics rules, police leadership, tax incentives, public agencies and pandemic aid. She has reported on data center tax breaks, property tax errors, federal relief spending and the fiscal effects of major development proposals. Quig combines insider government reporting with public accountability journalism. She uses public records, data and budget documents, follows committees and staff negotiations, and explains complex decisions in plain language with precise numbers and a direct link to everyday consequences.
Adam Daly
Adam Daly covers politics for amNewYork with a focus on the inner workings of city and state government and the low-profile forums where power is exercised and negotiated. He reports on commissions and panels that shape how New York is governed, treating charter reform and government efficiency as central political terrain. His coverage of moves to replace an Adams-era charter commission with a new government efficiency panel foregrounds mandate, authority, and what “efficiency” means in practice for agencies and services. He tracks who gains and loses influence when one commission supplants another and which constituencies are being answered to. Daly explains dense procedural questions in clear, reader-facing terms, using specific institutional details and occasional wordplay to connect jargon-heavy reforms to public spending, service delivery, and mayoral power.
Adam Pack
Adam Pack covers Capitol Hill through power struggles, investigations and ideological fights, focusing on how Congress intersects with Donald Trump’s agenda. He is a politics writer on Fox News Digital’s Capitol Hill team, covering Congress, federal elections, legislative battles, election rules, war powers, primaries and intraparty fights. He previously wrote for the Daily Caller News Foundation. His reporting examines deadlines, vote counts, bill language, campaign spending, court rulings, oversight reports, culture clashes and emerging issues such as AI-backed political groups. He has covered FISA reauthorization, defense spending, the SAVE America Act, housing policy, redistricting, candidate absences, primary spending and disputes over sex, gender, religion and race-based caucuses. He reports primarily through news features and investigative-style pieces built around documents, committee reports, court records, unearthed video and specific legislative details. He often co-writes complex Capitol Hill stories and publishes “FIRST ON FOX” exclusives.
Adam Sullivan
Adam Sullivan is a veteran politics reporter for WCAX who connects elections and party disputes to everyday life. He covers statewide races, party primaries, federal representation, political rhetoric, extremism, and accountability across the Upper Valley and neighboring states. His reporting includes Becca Balint’s victory over Molly Gray in the Democratic U.S. House primary to replace Congressman Peter Welch. He also reports when political controversies affect public safety, political culture, towns, and institutions, including a New Hampshire Libertarian Party post endorsing violence against elected Democrats. Sullivan follows cultural stories with civic consequences, such as Noah Kahan’s appeal to fans to stop stealing a Strafford road sign linked to his music. He writes straight news centered on concrete events, official reactions, political context, community impact, and what comes next.