On with Kara Swisher

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 Apr 2, 2023


 Jan 18, 2023

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It's on. Twice a week, award-winning journalist Kara Swisher gets to the heart of the story through no-holds-barred interviews with power players across business, tech, media, politics and beyond. So why do her guests show up? “Smart people,” says Kara, “like difficult questions.” Mondays and Thursdays from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. 

Episode Date
Rachel Maddow and Billy Corben on Mobsters, Russia, Trump and the 2020 Election
Oct 07, 2024
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AI “Friends”, OpenAI “Siblings” and Climate Change
Oct 03, 2024
Bill Gates on How to Tax the Rich, AI, Misinformation, & the Election
Sep 30, 2024
Pete Buttigieg Thinks Trumpism is in Its Last Season
Sep 26, 2024
From “Witch Hunt” to “Weaponization”: The Impact of Trump’s War on the DOJ with David Rohde
Sep 23, 2024
Robert Reich on Trump, Harris, Musk and More
Sep 19, 2024
Hillary Rodham Clinton Drops Truth Bombs
Sep 16, 2024
Useful Idiots? How Right-Wing Influencers Got $ to Spread Russian Propaganda
Sep 12, 2024
CNN's Dana Bash On Debate Drama, the Harris Interview & America’s Deadliest Election
Sep 09, 2024
Tech and Kids: Parenting Expert Dr. Becky Answers Listener Questions
Sep 05, 2024
Stay Tuned with Preet: Elections, Now & Then (with Joanne Freeman)
Sep 02, 2024
Unpacking Tech’s Influence on Today’s Media
Aug 29, 2024
The DNC Afterparty and What’s Next for the Harris/Walz Campaign
Aug 26, 2024
David Axelrod Breaks Down Kamala Harris’s Messaging and Strategy
Aug 22, 2024
Politics, Protests and Kamalanomenon: What to Expect at the DNC
Aug 19, 2024
How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta
Aug 15, 2024
The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic Mines the “Weird” 2024 Election For Comedy Gold
Aug 12, 2024
Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media
Aug 08, 2024
Nancy Pelosi on the ‘Decision to Win’ in 2024
Aug 05, 2024
Anti-DEI Moms & the Alt-Right: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Aug 01, 2024
The Debate, the Dropout and the Dems' Future with “Biden Whisperer” Ron Klain
Jul 29, 2024
Who’s Behind the Harris Campaign Donation Tsunami?
Jul 25, 2024
What Happened to Joe Biden? What’s Next for Kamala Harris and the Dems?
Jul 23, 2024
ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs
Jul 22, 2024
Guns, Social Media & Loneliness with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
Jul 18, 2024
Rachel Maddow on Trump, Biden’s Dilemma & America’s Fascist History
Jul 15, 2024
How Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is Leading During “A Really Heavy Time”
Jul 11, 2024
Too Old or Still Relevant? NATO at 75 with Ambassador Julianne Smith
Jul 08, 2024
July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy
Jul 04, 2024
On Creepy Fingers, Deep Fakes, and Fair Use with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters
Jul 01, 2024
Trump vs. Biden 2.1 with Stephanie Ruhle, Eliana Johnson and Mike Madrid
Jun 27, 2024
Storytelling, Family & Tragedy with Griffin Dunne
Jun 24, 2024
Flags, Free Trips & Secret Recordings: The Cases, Trials & Tribulation of SCOTUS
Jun 20, 2024
Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Doing Death, Truth-Telling in Comedy and Getting Wiser
Jun 17, 2024
Laurene Powell Jobs and Kara Talk Tech, AI & Journalism
Jun 14, 2024
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on ScarJo Controversy, Sam Altman & Disinfo Fears
Jun 13, 2024
Abortion Politics in 2024 with Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood President
Jun 10, 2024
AOC on Trump vs. Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tech, Gaza & More
Jun 06, 2024
Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer
Jun 03, 2024
Bill Maher Won't Back Down (But He Might Shock You)
May 30, 2024
“Possible” by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger featuring Kara Swisher
May 27, 2024
Are Elon’s Best Days Behind Him? with Kirsten Grind, Tim Higgins & Becky Peterson
May 23, 2024
On Journalism, Activism and Hope with Nicholas Kristof
May 20, 2024
War in Gaza, Ukraine & Space, plus Biden vs. Trump with David Ignatius
May 16, 2024
Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review
May 13, 2024
Radical Self-Acceptance, Cancel Culture, and Forgiveness with Writer Anne Lamott
May 09, 2024
Can Chipotle Founder Steve Ells Strike "Fast-Casual" Gold Again?
May 06, 2024
Wrestling with America’s (Racist) History with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
May 02, 2024
Time for a Data Privacy Bill + the TikTok Crackdown with Senator Maria Cantwell
Apr 29, 2024
How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs
Apr 25, 2024
Is the Fight Over Abortion Rights Enough to Beat Trump? with Shefali Luthra, Sarah McCammon and Mary Jo Pitzl
Apr 22, 2024
Kids and Phones: Moral Panic or Time to Panic? with Jonathan Haidt
Apr 18, 2024
Can Yahoo Bring Back the "Good Internet"?
Apr 15, 2024
Will Disinformation Doom Our Democracy? with Nina Jankowicz, Sasha Issenberg & Barbara McQuade
Apr 11, 2024
Lessons Learned From Hitler’s Rise To Power
Apr 08, 2024
Can Food Save The World? with Joan Nathan
Apr 04, 2024
"Food, Feminism, and Fury" with Geraldine DeRuiter
Apr 01, 2024
Life Lessons from Tech Titans (Kara in conversation with Brené Brown)
Mar 28, 2024
Much Ado About TikTok
Mar 25, 2024
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the IPO
Mar 21, 2024
Margrethe Vestager Shows Tech Gatekeepers The Door
Mar 18, 2024
"Burn Book" Takes SxSW, with "Mensch" Mark Cuban
Mar 15, 2024
More Burn Book with Ted Sarandos
Mar 14, 2024
How did Kara Scoop OpenAI, and More on Burn Book (with Sam Altman)
Mar 11, 2024
Why Reed Jobs is Betting on Cancer Innovations
Mar 07, 2024
David Chalian Makes the Call
Mar 04, 2024
The Burn Book Kick-Off with Don Lemon
Feb 29, 2024
Roberta Kaplan Will See You In Court
Feb 26, 2024
Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words
Feb 22, 2024
Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood
Feb 19, 2024
Cord Jefferson on Making American Fiction
Feb 15, 2024
Tracy Chapman's Timeless Earworms
Feb 12, 2024
Ambassador Rahm Emanuel on the New Japan, Contending With China, and Biden’s Calm
Feb 08, 2024
Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?
Feb 05, 2024
How Ava DuVernay Made a Hit with ‘Origin,’ and Without Big Studio Backing
Feb 01, 2024
Judy Woodruff on Polarization, Politics, and the Media
Jan 29, 2024
PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s “Get Sh*t Done” Attitude
Jan 25, 2024
Hope for American Democracy, According to Heather Cox Richardson
Jan 22, 2024
Psychedelics with Joe Green
Jan 18, 2024
Fei-Fei Li and a Humane Approach to AI
Jan 15, 2024
A Close Read of Trump’s 2024 Strategy
Jan 11, 2024
COVID Lessons Learned with Donald G McNeil Jr.
Jan 08, 2024
OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 2024
Jan 04, 2024
Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos
Dec 28, 2023
The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos
Dec 21, 2023
Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah
Dec 18, 2023
God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta
Dec 14, 2023
Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump
Dec 11, 2023
Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?
Dec 07, 2023
Washington’s Top China Hawk Talks TikTok, Taiwan & Trump
Dec 04, 2023
Martina Navratilova on Transgender Athletes, Pay Equity and Trump
Nov 30, 2023
Olympian Caster Semenya on Fighting to Run
Nov 27, 2023
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle
Nov 21, 2023
The Fox News ‘Lying Tax,’ Tucker and More with Brian Stelter
Nov 20, 2023
Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future
Nov 16, 2023
Adam Grant on Your Potential, Gen Z and — oops — Elon
Nov 13, 2023
Can Mike Johnson Survive As House Speaker?
Nov 09, 2023
The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants
Nov 06, 2023
How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich
Nov 02, 2023
Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K
Oct 30, 2023
Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy
Oct 26, 2023
The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now
Oct 23, 2023
Christiane Amanpour on Covering This War
Oct 19, 2023
Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon)
Oct 16, 2023
The Politics of Disagreement with Steve Inskeep
Oct 12, 2023
Martha, Martha, Martha (ICYMI)
Oct 09, 2023
Jon Lovett Talks Trump, Biden & the Podcasting Biz
Oct 05, 2023
Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger
Oct 02, 2023
The Yoel Roth-Linda Yaccarino Showdown
Sep 28, 2023
Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneurship and Why She Doesn’t Love Being Called “America’s First Black Female Billionaire”
Sep 25, 2023
Is Biden the Best Democrats Can Do?
Sep 21, 2023
The Walter Isaacson-Kara Swisher Showdown
Sep 18, 2023
How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists
Sep 14, 2023
Conan O'Brien Talks to His Accountant
Sep 11, 2023
What Naomi Klein Found Down the Steve Bannon Rabbit Hole
Sep 07, 2023
Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know
Sep 04, 2023
Barry Diller on Biden, AI and the Hollywood Shutdown
Aug 31, 2023
WTF Can We Do About Deadly Wildfires?
Aug 28, 2023
Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan
Aug 24, 2023
Ron DeSantis Won’t Stop Imani Rupert Gordon
Aug 21, 2023
Big Companies Are Scared of These Lawyers
Aug 17, 2023
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: Friendship — My Reliable Gift
Aug 14, 2023
Aging, Death and other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
Aug 10, 2023
Esther Perel on Grief — In Memory of Blakeney Schick
Aug 07, 2023
Is Chris Christie Really the Anti-Trump?
Aug 03, 2023
Vinod Khosla’s View of the Future, From AI to China
Jul 31, 2023
Barbie & Oppenheimer & Strikes, Oh My
Jul 27, 2023
The Rewards of Stepping Out of Line: A Commencement Address from Kara
Jul 24, 2023
Fran Drescher on the SAG Strike and Hollywood’s "Fat Cats”
Jul 20, 2023
The Crypto Founder Who Won a “Landmark Victory” Against the SEC
Jul 17, 2023
The Fox News Love Triangle: Tucker, Murdoch and Trump
Jul 13, 2023
Jake Tapper on Trust, Trump and CNN
Jul 10, 2023
Oliver Stone on Nuclear Energy, Putin and the Path to Conspiracies
Jul 06, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg: Oops! I Did It Again (Again)
Jul 03, 2023
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business
Jun 29, 2023
Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore
Jun 26, 2023
Martha Stewart Makes No Apologies for Being Perfect
Jun 22, 2023
The Weeds: We Need to Rethink Discipline in Schools
Jun 19, 2023
Inflection AI: Personalized and More "Woke" Than The “TruthGPT” Elon Might Make
Jun 15, 2023
Sorry, Donald. Jen Easterly Plans To Make Elections Boring Again.
Jun 12, 2023
Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana
Jun 08, 2023
The Man Making Self-Driving Trucks
Jun 05, 2023
Jeremy Strong, Alexander Skasgard and Succession Spin-Off Theories (Spoiler Alert)
Jun 01, 2023
Ukraine’s Tech Advantage
May 29, 2023
A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris
May 25, 2023
Lilly Singh on Making It on Social Media — and Hollywood
May 22, 2023
Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?
May 18, 2023
How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI?
May 15, 2023
Watergate to Trump and Today’s GOP: A Throughline
May 11, 2023
Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith
May 08, 2023
Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike
May 04, 2023
Snap’s Evan Spiegel on AI, AR, and – yes – TikTok
May 01, 2023
Ron Klain on the Likely Biden-Trump 2024 Showdown
Apr 27, 2023
Ben Smith on the Turmoil at Buzzfeed, Fox News and Everything In Between
Apr 24, 2023
Larry Summers on the Politics & Economics of Envy
Apr 20, 2023
Jen Psaki on Her New Show and Her Old Boss
Apr 17, 2023
Inside the Elon-Substack Drama with Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
Apr 13, 2023
What Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy Have in Common (and Don’t)
Apr 10, 2023
WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani talks TikTok, Telehealth Deal on GLP-1/Ozempic and Why She Took the Job
Apr 06, 2023
Brooke Shields: Stardom, Teen Girls & Social Media
Apr 03, 2023
How to Make It in Media with Audie Cornish
Mar 30, 2023
Katie Porter: Taking Big Business to Task While Running for Dianne Feinstein’s Seat
Mar 27, 2023
When Silicon Valley Invaded Texas
Mar 24, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race
Mar 23, 2023
Reid Hoffman Talks Trump, Thiel & AI
Mar 20, 2023
SVB, IG & AI with Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom
Mar 16, 2023
Walter Isaacson Is Writing the Book (Literally) on Elon Musk
Mar 13, 2023
Jamie Lee Curtis and Donna Langley Take Us Inside Hollywood
Mar 09, 2023
Marc Benioff’s Toughest Conversation with Kara Swisher
Mar 06, 2023
Is Bing Back? with Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi
Mar 02, 2023
How Much Damage Did Trump Do to America’s Standing In the World?
Feb 27, 2023
Will Killing Section 230 Kill the Internet?
Feb 23, 2023
Welcome to AI Warfare
Feb 20, 2023
Ken Buck Takes On the Big Tech Boogeyman
Feb 16, 2023
Ruben Gallego Is Ready to Take On “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake for Kyrsten Sinema’s Seat
Feb 13, 2023
"Donald Trump Has Made Democrats Great" (Again)
Feb 09, 2023
Conservative or Liberal? This Prosecutor Refuses to Be Put in a Box
Feb 06, 2023
The Big Business of Online Dating (Land of the Giants)
Feb 02, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg: Oops!...I Did It Again
Jan 30, 2023
Has the Silicon Valley Bubble Burst? A Conversation w Jessica Lessin & William Cohan
Jan 26, 2023
Biden’s Antitrust Advisor Left the White House. Here’s His Exit Interview
Jan 23, 2023
Intelligence Squared: Swisher and Scaramucci Debate If Elon Is Killing Twitter
Jan 20, 2023
Inside the Prince Harry Book Blitz and What It Means for the Monarchy
Jan 19, 2023
Ian Bremmer on Putin, Xi…and Elon Musk
Jan 16, 2023
What’s Next for GOP & Trump – w/Charlie Sykes & Manu Raju
Jan 12, 2023
Are You “Dying of Politeness”? Geena Davis Explains.
Jan 09, 2023
Peering into the Future with Tony Fadell
Jan 05, 2023
Love, Life & Other Advice from Kara and Nayeema
Dec 29, 2022
The Legacy of Steve Jobs
Dec 26, 2022
Casey Newton, Kara & Nayeema Talk Tech
Dec 22, 2022
Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle
Dec 19, 2022
Fox News, Dominion — oh, and Donald Trump
Dec 15, 2022
Aging, Death and Other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia
Dec 12, 2022
A Bad Week for Donald Trump? … And Potentially for Gay Marriage?
Dec 08, 2022
The Man Behind "Sex and the City" and "Emily in Paris"
Dec 05, 2022
Why Twitter’s Former Safety Chief Left Elon Musk
Dec 01, 2022
A Nobel Prize Winner on the “Dark Matter of Biology”
Nov 28, 2022
Into It: A Portrait of Artist as Taylor Swift
Nov 24, 2022
Where’s the Line in Comedy? Monty Python’s Eric Idle Has an Idea
Nov 21, 2022
Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
Nov 17, 2022
Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know
Nov 14, 2022
How Donald Trump Helped the Democrats
Nov 10, 2022
How John King Gets Ready for Election Night
Nov 07, 2022
Kara on Elon and John Legend on Kanye (and More!)
Nov 03, 2022
Matt Levine on Elon Musk: Chief Twit & “Meme Lord”
Oct 31, 2022
Frank Luntz, Rick Wilson and Sarah Longwell on Donald Trump and the Midterms
Oct 27, 2022
Twitter Spaces On: WTF is Happening in the UK and the World
Oct 25, 2022
The Economy Stinks, and Dr. Doom is Not Hopeful
Oct 24, 2022
Airbnb’s CEO on Nomadic Life, Loneliness… and Cleaning Fees
Oct 20, 2022
Twitter Spaces On: Elon, Elon, Elon … and Trump
Oct 19, 2022
The Billionaire Who Took America Online
Oct 17, 2022
Will Stacey Abrams (Finally) Win?
Oct 13, 2022
John Fetterman and Kara Talk Strokes, Recovery & Senate Race
Oct 10, 2022
Maggie Haberman Makes Sense of Donald Trump
Oct 06, 2022
So ... Should We Ban TikTok?
Oct 03, 2022
Hillary Clinton Lets Loose with Predictions
Sep 29, 2022
Chris Cuomo’s Comeback
Sep 26, 2022
Coming Soon: On with Kara Swisher
Sep 03, 2022