Experts
David Remnick
Editor, The New Yorker
The standard of proof had been laid out clearly in the decades since the destructive lie of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. And then George W. Bush claimed there were so-called "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, siting fake evidence. Read More
The more unwilling Binyamin Netanyahu is to make a leap of history, the more dangerous it’s going to get. Read More
The New Yorker editor compares the current atmosphere in the U.S. to what happened in Israel under Yitzhak Rabin: the far right stirred things up so much that the political atmosphere became, literally, murderous. Read More
The President couldn't assume he would get the African-American vote just because he was black. He had to go out and win it. Read More
Why isn’t the New Yorker editor worried about what has been happening to the magazine industry? Read More
A conversation with the editor of The New Yorker. Read More
Jerry Kellman spent countless hours with the President eating at McDonald's and talking about life. Read More
Obama wants to win. He's “not some kind of pie-eyed idealist.” Read More
Some writers hate writing. Remnick isn't one of them. Read More
Sometimes snark is just a one-trick pony. Read More
Nothing has replaced "The Sopranos." Read More
It's not a question of elitism, Remnick says. It's about getting a good product out there. Read More
With no end in sight, the war in Iraq is not receiving nearly enough attention. Read More
There's been no shortage of the examination of the real issues, Remnick says. Read More
Remnick says he can guess which party the candidate will come from. Read More
The magazine's criticism of the George W. Bush administration made up for whatever The New Yorker missed in the lead-up to the war, says Remnick. Read More
The New Yorker editor says there are good bloggers and lousy bloggers. Read More
Does a Web presence compromise the New Yorker brand? Read More
Remnick's tenure happened to coincide with 9/11 and the subsequent fall out. Read More
Writers who don't outgrow short fiction are the exception rather than the norm, Remnick says. Read More
About David Remnick
Since taking the helm of The New Yorker in 1998, David Remnick has returned the magazine to its profitable glory days. A graduate of Princeton University, he began his journalistic career as a night police reporter at the Washington Post in 1982, becoming the paper's Moscow correspondent in 1988. His coverage of the Soviet Union's collapse led to his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 book "Lenin's Tomb." His latest book "The Bridge," is a biography of President Barack Obama. He lives in New York with his wife, Esther Fein, and their three children.