On with Kara Swisher
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Latest episode: Mon Oct 07 2024
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.
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- Oct7Rachel Maddow and Billy Corben on Mobsters, Russia, Trump and the 2020 Election65mins
- Oct3Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AI “Friends”, OpenAI “Siblings” and Climate Change56mins
- Sep30Bill Gates on How to Tax the Rich, AI, Misinformation, & the Election59mins
- Sep26Pete Buttigieg Thinks Trumpism is in Its Last Season47mins
- Sep23From “Witch Hunt” to “Weaponization”: The Impact of Trump’s War on the DOJ with David Rohde59mins
- Sep19Robert Reich on Trump, Harris, Musk and More61mins
- Sep16Hillary Rodham Clinton Drops Truth Bombs67mins
- Sep12Useful Idiots? How Right-Wing Influencers Got $ to Spread Russian Propaganda63mins
- Sep9CNN's Dana Bash On Debate Drama, the Harris Interview & America’s Deadliest Election55mins
- Sep5Tech and Kids: Parenting Expert Dr. Becky Answers Listener Questions63mins
- Sep2Stay Tuned with Preet: Elections, Now & Then (with Joanne Freeman)81mins
- Aug29Unpacking Tech’s Influence on Today’s Media67mins
- Aug26The DNC Afterparty and What’s Next for the Harris/Walz Campaign70mins
- Aug22David Axelrod Breaks Down Kamala Harris’s Messaging and Strategy53mins
- Aug19Politics, Protests and Kamalanomenon: What to Expect at the DNC65mins
- Aug15How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta55mins
- Aug12The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic Mines the “Weird” 2024 Election For Comedy Gold58mins
- Aug8Roxane Gay on Guns, Kamala & Media60mins
- Aug5Nancy Pelosi on the ‘Decision to Win’ in 202462mins
- Aug1Anti-DEI Moms & the Alt-Right: Two Sides of the Same Coin71mins
- Jul29The Debate, the Dropout and the Dems' Future with “Biden Whisperer” Ron Klain48mins
- Jul25Who’s Behind the Harris Campaign Donation Tsunami?56mins
- Jul23What Happened to Joe Biden? What’s Next for Kamala Harris and the Dems?51mins
- Jul22ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs39mins
- Jul18Guns, Social Media & Loneliness with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy55mins
- Jul15Rachel Maddow on Trump, Biden’s Dilemma & America’s Fascist History60mins
- Jul11How Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is Leading During “A Really Heavy Time”50mins
- Jul8Too Old or Still Relevant? NATO at 75 with Ambassador Julianne Smith46mins
- Jul4July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy80mins
- Jul1On Creepy Fingers, Deep Fakes, and Fair Use with Getty Images CEO Craig Peters51mins
- Jun27Trump vs. Biden 2.1 with Stephanie Ruhle, Eliana Johnson and Mike Madrid57mins
- Jun24Storytelling, Family & Tragedy with Griffin Dunne51mins
- Jun20Flags, Free Trips & Secret Recordings: The Cases, Trials & Tribulation of SCOTUS56mins
- Jun17Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Doing Death, Truth-Telling in Comedy and Getting Wiser44mins
- Jun14Laurene Powell Jobs and Kara Talk Tech, AI & Journalism52mins
- Jun13OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on ScarJo Controversy, Sam Altman & Disinfo Fears49mins
- Jun10Abortion Politics in 2024 with Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood President40mins
- Jun6AOC on Trump vs. Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tech, Gaza & More64mins
- Jun3Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer52mins
- May30Bill Maher Won't Back Down (But He Might Shock You)52mins
- May27“Possible” by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger featuring Kara Swisher59mins
- May23Are Elon’s Best Days Behind Him? with Kirsten Grind, Tim Higgins & Becky Peterson56mins
- May20On Journalism, Activism and Hope with Nicholas Kristof55mins
- May16War in Gaza, Ukraine & Space, plus Biden vs. Trump with David Ignatius58mins
- May13Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review61mins
- May9Radical Self-Acceptance, Cancel Culture, and Forgiveness with Writer Anne Lamott49mins
- May6Can Chipotle Founder Steve Ells Strike "Fast-Casual" Gold Again?47mins
- May2Wrestling with America’s (Racist) History with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks45mins
- Apr29Time for a Data Privacy Bill + the TikTok Crackdown with Senator Maria Cantwell49mins
- Apr25How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs57mins
- Apr22Is the Fight Over Abortion Rights Enough to Beat Trump? with Shefali Luthra, Sarah McCammon and Mary Jo Pitzl43mins
- Apr18Kids and Phones: Moral Panic or Time to Panic? with Jonathan Haidt61mins
- Apr15Can Yahoo Bring Back the "Good Internet"?53mins
- Apr11Will Disinformation Doom Our Democracy? with Nina Jankowicz, Sasha Issenberg & Barbara McQuade50mins
- Apr8Lessons Learned From Hitler’s Rise To Power55mins
- Apr4Can Food Save The World? with Joan Nathan47mins
- Apr1"Food, Feminism, and Fury" with Geraldine DeRuiter52mins
- Mar28Life Lessons from Tech Titans (Kara in conversation with Brené Brown)53mins
- Mar25Much Ado About TikTok57mins
- Mar21Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the IPO59mins
- Mar18Margrethe Vestager Shows Tech Gatekeepers The Door51mins
- Mar15"Burn Book" Takes SxSW, with "Mensch" Mark Cuban43mins
- Mar14More Burn Book with Ted Sarandos48mins
- Mar11How did Kara Scoop OpenAI, and More on Burn Book (with Sam Altman)46mins
- Mar7Why Reed Jobs is Betting on Cancer Innovations56mins
- Mar4David Chalian Makes the Call55mins
- Feb29The Burn Book Kick-Off with Don Lemon49mins
- Feb26Roberta Kaplan Will See You In Court59mins
- Feb22Paul Giamatti Is Good With Words44mins
- Feb19Brooke Shields on Surviving Hollywood53mins
- Feb15Cord Jefferson on Making American Fiction51mins
- Feb12Tracy Chapman's Timeless Earworms59mins
- Feb8Ambassador Rahm Emanuel on the New Japan, Contending With China, and Biden’s Calm49mins
- Feb5Is the Apple Vision Pro All That?63mins
- Feb1How Ava DuVernay Made a Hit with ‘Origin,’ and Without Big Studio Backing48mins
- Jan29Judy Woodruff on Polarization, Politics, and the Media52mins
- Jan25PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s “Get Sh*t Done” Attitude53mins
- Jan22Hope for American Democracy, According to Heather Cox Richardson66mins
- Jan18Psychedelics with Joe Green49mins
- Jan15Fei-Fei Li and a Humane Approach to AI61mins
- Jan11A Close Read of Trump’s 2024 Strategy58mins
- Jan8COVID Lessons Learned with Donald G McNeil Jr.54mins
- Jan4OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 202447mins
- Dec28Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos21mins
- Dec21The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos46mins
- Dec18Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah53mins
- Dec14God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta60mins
- Dec11Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump56mins
- Dec7Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?57mins
- Dec4Washington’s Top China Hawk Talks TikTok, Taiwan & Trump61mins
- Nov30Martina Navratilova on Transgender Athletes, Pay Equity and Trump58mins
- Nov27Olympian Caster Semenya on Fighting to Run49mins
- Nov21Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle28mins
- Nov20The Fox News ‘Lying Tax,’ Tucker and More with Brian Stelter63mins
- Nov16Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future55mins
- Nov13Adam Grant on Your Potential, Gen Z and — oops — Elon59mins
- Nov9Can Mike Johnson Survive As House Speaker?53mins
- Nov6The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants52mins
- Nov2How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich67mins
- Oct30Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K60mins
- Oct26Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy51mins
- Oct23The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now60mins
- Oct19Christiane Amanpour on Covering This War42mins
- Oct16Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon)61mins
- Oct12The Politics of Disagreement with Steve Inskeep64mins
- Oct9Martha, Martha, Martha (ICYMI)61mins
- Oct5Jon Lovett Talks Trump, Biden & the Podcasting Biz40mins
- Oct2Do Never Trumpers Matter? We Asked Adam Kinzinger61mins
- Sep28The Yoel Roth-Linda Yaccarino Showdown98mins
- Sep25Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneurship and Why She Doesn’t Love Being Called “America’s First Black Female Billionaire”56mins
- Sep21Is Biden the Best Democrats Can Do?62mins
- Sep18The Walter Isaacson-Kara Swisher Showdown86mins
- Sep14How Twitter Took Alex Edelman to IRL White Supremacists51mins
- Sep11Conan O'Brien Talks to His Accountant59mins
- Sep7What Naomi Klein Found Down the Steve Bannon Rabbit Hole59mins
- Sep4Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know64mins
- Aug31Barry Diller on Biden, AI and the Hollywood Shutdown70mins
- Aug28WTF Can We Do About Deadly Wildfires?53mins
- Aug24Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan55mins
- Aug21Ron DeSantis Won’t Stop Imani Rupert Gordon58mins
- Aug17Big Companies Are Scared of These Lawyers64mins
- Aug14Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: Friendship — My Reliable Gift58mins
- Aug10Aging, Death and other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia55mins
- Aug7Esther Perel on Grief — In Memory of Blakeney Schick53mins
- Aug3Is Chris Christie Really the Anti-Trump?59mins
- Jul31Vinod Khosla’s View of the Future, From AI to China59mins
- Jul27Barbie & Oppenheimer & Strikes, Oh My48mins
- Jul24The Rewards of Stepping Out of Line: A Commencement Address from Kara27mins
- Jul20Fran Drescher on the SAG Strike and Hollywood’s "Fat Cats”60mins
- Jul17The Crypto Founder Who Won a “Landmark Victory” Against the SEC66mins
- Jul13The Fox News Love Triangle: Tucker, Murdoch and Trump67mins
- Jul10Jake Tapper on Trust, Trump and CNN70mins
- Jul6Oliver Stone on Nuclear Energy, Putin and the Path to Conspiracies59mins
- Jul3Mark Zuckerberg: Oops! I Did It Again (Again)56mins
- Jun29Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Show Business, Shoe Business and More Business64mins
- Jun26Wanda Sykes on Why Trump Isn’t Funny Anymore50mins
- Jun22Martha Stewart Makes No Apologies for Being Perfect61mins
- Jun19The Weeds: We Need to Rethink Discipline in Schools52mins
- Jun15Inflection AI: Personalized and More "Woke" Than The “TruthGPT” Elon Might Make60mins
- Jun12Sorry, Donald. Jen Easterly Plans To Make Elections Boring Again.64mins
- Jun8Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana57mins
- Jun5The Man Making Self-Driving Trucks57mins
- Jun1Jeremy Strong, Alexander Skasgard and Succession Spin-Off Theories (Spoiler Alert)74mins
- May29Ukraine’s Tech Advantage41mins
- May25A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris74mins
- May22Lilly Singh on Making It on Social Media — and Hollywood56mins
- May18Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?51mins
- May15How Will Lina Khan and the FTC Tackle AI?58mins
- May11Watergate to Trump and Today’s GOP: A Throughline56mins
- May8Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith59mins
- May4Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike59mins
- May1Snap’s Evan Spiegel on AI, AR, and – yes – TikTok57mins
- Apr27Ron Klain on the Likely Biden-Trump 2024 Showdown51mins
- Apr24Ben Smith on the Turmoil at Buzzfeed, Fox News and Everything In Between64mins
- Apr20Larry Summers on the Politics & Economics of Envy55mins
- Apr17Jen Psaki on Her New Show and Her Old Boss53mins
- Apr13Inside the Elon-Substack Drama with Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie56mins
- Apr10What Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy Have in Common (and Don’t)68mins
- Apr6WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani talks TikTok, Telehealth Deal on GLP-1/Ozempic and Why She Took the Job54mins
- Apr3Brooke Shields: Stardom, Teen Girls & Social Media52mins
- Mar30How to Make It in Media with Audie Cornish54mins
- Mar27Katie Porter: Taking Big Business to Task While Running for Dianne Feinstein’s Seat53mins
- Mar24When Silicon Valley Invaded Texas42mins
- Mar23OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4 & the A.I. Arms Race62mins
- Mar20Reid Hoffman Talks Trump, Thiel & AI58mins
- Mar16SVB, IG & AI with Instagram Co-founder Kevin Systrom61mins
- Mar13Walter Isaacson Is Writing the Book (Literally) on Elon Musk63mins
- Mar9Jamie Lee Curtis and Donna Langley Take Us Inside Hollywood46mins
- Mar6Marc Benioff’s Toughest Conversation with Kara Swisher70mins
- Mar2Is Bing Back? with Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi53mins
- Feb27How Much Damage Did Trump Do to America’s Standing In the World?48mins
- Feb23Will Killing Section 230 Kill the Internet?56mins
- Feb20Welcome to AI Warfare53mins
- Feb16Ken Buck Takes On the Big Tech Boogeyman53mins
- Feb13Ruben Gallego Is Ready to Take On “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake for Kyrsten Sinema’s Seat51mins
- Feb9"Donald Trump Has Made Democrats Great" (Again)61mins
- Feb6Conservative or Liberal? This Prosecutor Refuses to Be Put in a Box53mins
- Feb2The Big Business of Online Dating (Land of the Giants)53mins
- Jan30Mark Zuckerberg: Oops!...I Did It Again62mins
- Jan26Has the Silicon Valley Bubble Burst? A Conversation w Jessica Lessin & William Cohan50mins
- Jan23Biden’s Antitrust Advisor Left the White House. Here’s His Exit Interview58mins
- Jan20Intelligence Squared: Swisher and Scaramucci Debate If Elon Is Killing Twitter58mins
- Jan19Inside the Prince Harry Book Blitz and What It Means for the Monarchy59mins
- Jan16Ian Bremmer on Putin, Xi…and Elon Musk53mins
- Jan12What’s Next for GOP & Trump – w/Charlie Sykes & Manu Raju50mins
- Jan9Are You “Dying of Politeness”? Geena Davis Explains.48mins
- Jan5Peering into the Future with Tony Fadell64mins
- Dec29Love, Life & Other Advice from Kara and Nayeema52mins
- Dec26The Legacy of Steve Jobs73mins
- Dec22Casey Newton, Kara & Nayeema Talk Tech53mins
- Dec19Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle66mins
- Dec15Fox News, Dominion — oh, and Donald Trump50mins
- Dec12Aging, Death and Other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia52mins
- Dec8A Bad Week for Donald Trump? … And Potentially for Gay Marriage?57mins
- Dec5The Man Behind "Sex and the City" and "Emily in Paris"52mins
- Dec1Why Twitter’s Former Safety Chief Left Elon Musk67mins
- Nov28A Nobel Prize Winner on the “Dark Matter of Biology”47mins
- Nov24Into It: A Portrait of Artist as Taylor Swift38mins
- Nov21Where’s the Line in Comedy? Monty Python’s Eric Idle Has an Idea59mins
- Nov17Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?65mins
- Nov14Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know67mins
- Nov10How Donald Trump Helped the Democrats64mins
- Nov7How John King Gets Ready for Election Night58mins
- Nov3Kara on Elon and John Legend on Kanye (and More!)57mins
- Oct31Matt Levine on Elon Musk: Chief Twit & “Meme Lord”55mins
- Oct27Frank Luntz, Rick Wilson and Sarah Longwell on Donald Trump and the Midterms61mins
- Oct25Twitter Spaces On: WTF is Happening in the UK and the World68mins
- Oct24The Economy Stinks, and Dr. Doom is Not Hopeful53mins
- Oct20Airbnb’s CEO on Nomadic Life, Loneliness… and Cleaning Fees62mins
- Oct19Twitter Spaces On: Elon, Elon, Elon … and Trump52mins
- Oct17The Billionaire Who Took America Online61mins
- Oct13Will Stacey Abrams (Finally) Win?52mins
- Oct10John Fetterman and Kara Talk Strokes, Recovery & Senate Race50mins
- Oct6Maggie Haberman Makes Sense of Donald Trump56mins
- Oct3So ... Should We Ban TikTok?54mins
- Sep29Hillary Clinton Lets Loose with Predictions59mins
- Sep26Chris Cuomo’s Comeback62mins
- Sep3Coming Soon: On with Kara Swisher2mins