David Remnick / “There’s No Office Left to Run For”

David Remnick speaks at the New Yorker Festival on Oct. 8 in New York City.

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INTERROGATIONI

“There’s No Office Left to Run For”

New Yorker editor David Remnick on the rawness of Clinton’s What Happened—and his hopes for Obama’s presidential memoir.

BY ISAAC CHOTINER

SEPT 22, 201712:43 PM

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker. Remnick began editing the magazine in 1998; before then, he was a staff writer for the magazine and a Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post. His coverage of the fall of communism later became the book Lenin’s Tomb, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to editing the magazine, Remnick, now 58, continues to write frequently on Russia, Israel, music, and Donald Trump. He also hosts the New Yorker Radio Hour. His most recent piece was a long profile of Hillary Clinton.

David Remnick / “We Should Be Unrelenting”

David Remnick on April 13 in New York City
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INTERROGATION

“We Should Be Unrelenting”

New Yorker editor David Remnick on journalism in the era of Trump and the internet.

BY ISAAC CHOTINER

OCT 02, 20177:15 

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker. This is the second part of that interview. (Read the first part here.) Remnick began editing the magazine in 1998; before then, he was a staff writer for the magazine and a Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post. His coverage of the fall of communism later became the book Lenin’s Tomb, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to editing the magazine, Remnick, now 58, continues to write frequently on Russia, Israel, music, and Donald Trump. He also hosts the New Yorker Radio Hour. His most recent piece was a long profile of Hillary Clinton.

 

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Excerpt: David Remnick's New Yorker Piece on Obama

By ABC News January 19, 2014

Sunday on 'This Week' David Remnick joins the powerhouse roundtable. Read an excerpt from his latest piece on Obama, "Going the Distance" here. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama sat in the office cabin of Air Force One wearing a look of heavy-lidded annoyance. The Affordable Care Act, his signature domestic achievement and, for all its limitations, the most ambitious social legislation since the Great Society, half a century ago, was in jeopardy. His approval rating was down to forty per cent-lower than George W. Bush's in December of 2005, when Bush admitted that the decision to invade Iraq had been based on intelligence that "turned out to be wrong." Also, Obama said thickly, "I've got a fat lip."

David Remnick / ‘The United States has been an imperfect democracy since its founding’

David Remnick, the editor of ‘The New Yorker.’HINDUSTAN TIMES

David Remnick: ‘The United States has been an imperfect democracy since its founding’

The editor of ‘The New Yorker’ talks to EL PAÍS about Donald Trump and the deepening ideological differences his country faces as it heads toward elections in November

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Mexico - OCT 08, 2020 - 07:34 COT

The night that Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, David Remnick, the editor of the prestigious magazine The New Yorker, impulsively wrote a column that went viral within seconds. “The election of Donald Trump to the presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic,” he wrote. “[It is] a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. [...] Fascism is not our future – it cannot be; we cannot allow it to be so – but this is surely the way fascism can begin.” Four years on, Remnick says he would not change a word of it.