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On with Kara Swisher
On with Kara Swisher
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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... more

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Episodes

Michelle Buteau on Comedy, Community and Calling Out Dave Chappelle

Comedian Michelle Buteau is a true mutli-hyphenate — actor, standup comic, TV host, podcaster, and executive producer — and she... more

31 Mar 2025 · 57 minutes
Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Editing & a Short-Fingered Vulgarian Named Trump

Graydon Carter is the co-founder of Spy Magazine and Air Mail, and for 25 years, he was the editor of... more

27 Mar 2025 · 55 minutes
Fired Up: FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter Say They’ll Fight Trump

President Trump fired Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, last week, sending... more

24 Mar 2025 · 57 minutes
Is America Ready for a Full-Blown Cyberwar? with Nicole Perlroth, Michael Schmidt & Lt. Col. Vindman

Everything, everywhere, all at once — but not the movie. This is how cybersecurity experts describe a scenario where a foreign... more

20 Mar 2025 · 59 minutes
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Less Obstruction, More Government

Scarcity is a policy choice — one liberals need to reject and replace with abundance, according to journalists Ezra Klein... more

17 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Chelsea Handler on Men, Trump & Money (+ Excellent Parenting Advice)

From spiking her childhood lemonade stand drinks with vodka to launching Netflix's first talk show, Chelsea Handler has always had... more

13 Mar 2025 · 50 minutes
How Sen. Elizabeth Warren Is “Fighting Like Hell” Against Trump, Musk & Big Tech Billionaires

How is Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pushing back against the Trump/Musk “co-presidents” wreaking havoc in Washington? Speaking to Kara at SXSW,... more

10 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide

On May 27, 2019, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author (and Kara’s friend) Tony Horwitz was on book tour for his... more

06 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Can Kara Save The Washington Post From Jeff Bezos?

For months, Kara has been assembling a group of investors to buy The Washington Post. Although it's not actually for... more

03 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 29 minutes
How Trump's Policies Will Shape the Stock Market with Aswath Damodaran

For years, Wall Street veterans have been saying that a market correction is around the corner, and last week's jitters... more

27 Feb 2025 · 1 hour,
Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes

Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor Ronny Chieng is a self-described grumpy Malaysian who get to tell it like it is... more

24 Feb 2025 · 52 minutes
Rahm Emanuel’s Tough Love Intervention for the Democratic Party

After a three-year stint in Japan, Ambassador Rahm Emanuel is back in the States. And now that he's freed from... more

20 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
Oren Cass, Paul Krugman & Mariana Mazzucato on Trumponomics

Last week, President Trump signed a memorandum calling for reciprocal tariffs on countries that charge fees on US exports and... more

17 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Trump’s Executive Power Moves and the Rule of Law

In just a few weeks, President Trump has flooded the zone with executive orders, which have been met with dozens... more

13 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo on Defying Gravity, the Attack on Diversity and (Maybe) Getting an EGOT

Is it strange that Wicked, a film about a marginalized person discovering her magic and rising up to fight against... more

10 Feb 2025 · 48 minutes
Dissecting Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover with Anne Applebaum, Eoin Higgins & Ryan Mac

Elon Musk and a band of young DOGE engineers are taking control of key government infrastructure. The scale and speed... more

06 Feb 2025 · 1 hour,
Why Ben Stiller Made Severance (and Doesn’t Care about What Elon Says About Him)

Ben Stiller knew he needed to make Severance the moment he read an early version of the show in a... more

03 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Trump’s J6 Pardons, the Militia Movement, and the Border

President Trump’s executive action granting clemency to all of the January 6th insurrectionists – violent and non-violent alike – has... more

30 Jan 2025 · 56 minutes
Social Media’s Original Gatekeepers On Moderation’s Rise And Fall

Since the inception of social media, content moderation has been hotly debated by CEOs, politicians, and, of course, among the... more

27 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
From Trump to TikTok: Chris Hayes on the Rise of Attention Capitalism

Attention is our world’s most endangered resource — and whoever commands it, commands power. That’s the thesis of Chris Hayes’s... more

23 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
On Trump’s “Day One” Promises: Former DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas Talks Immigration, Terrorism, and Cybersecurity Threats

President Donald Trump has vowed to tackle immigration on “day one,” and that includes promising to close the southern border... more

20 Jan 2025 · 54 minutes
Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces

They’re incredible pieces of technology, they’re unbelievably useful, and we feel lost without them. Nonetheless, smartphones have become the bane... more

16 Jan 2025 · 59 minutes
Laverne Cox on Meta, Conservatives and The Battle For Trans Rights

Transgender kids and adults have become a political punching bag for conservatives — but Laverne Cox is stepping into the... more

13 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Regulating Tech, Antitrust, Trump’s Picks & More

Senator Amy Klobuchar has been legislating on Capitol Hill for 18 years. She recently won reelection and is now the... more

09 Jan 2025 · 52 minutes
Trump Whisperer Maggie Haberman On Trump 2.0

After MAGA rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, many people thought Donald Trump's days as a political... more

06 Jan 2025 · 59 minutes
AI Ethics and Safety — a Contradiction in Terms?

We’re kicking off the year with a deep-dive into AI ethics and safety with three AI experts: Dr. Rumman Chowdhury,... more

02 Jan 2025 · 53 minutes
Samantha Bee on Being “Democrat-Celibate” (from The Assignment with Audie Cornish)

Samantha Bee is a comedian, author and former late-night host who hosts the podcast Choice Words with Samantha Bee and... more

30 Dec 2024 · 41 minutes
Sarah Silverman on Being Wrong – and Treating Trolls with Kindness (from ReThinking with Adam Grant)

Happy Holidays! We have a special episode from our friend Adam Grant and the folks at the TED Audio Collective. Sarah... more

26 Dec 2024 · 38 minutes
The Best (and Most Overrated) Books of 2024

Which subpar books actually warrant writing a bad review? Do best sellers usually live up to the hype? And how... more

23 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Makes the Case for Open Source

Kara sits down for a live interview with Yann LeCun, an “early AI prophet” and the brains behind the largest... more

21 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
RFK Jr., Vaccines, Bird Flu & Health Under Trump 2.0

RFK Jr. was on the Hill, on Monday, working to persuade senators he’s capable of running the Department of Health and... more

19 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Chef Matty Matheson of ‘The Bear’ on Culinary Stardom, On and Off The Screen

Canadian chef Matty Matheson has been a force in the culinary world for over two decades, but the non-foodies of... more

16 Dec 2024 · 48 minutes
Rep. Ro Khanna on Tech, Trump & Elon

Representative Ro Khanna represents the wealthiest congressional district in the country, but he wants to show Democrats how to speak... more

12 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Marc Benioff on Elon, AI Agents, and the “DOGE”

How will AI agents change the economy and the workforce — and are Americans ready? Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has... more

09 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud Says Free Is the Future of Streaming

How does an ad-based streamer compete with subscription-based models like Netflix, Hulu, Max, and all the rest? By charging nothing.... more

07 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
Did a Chatbot Cause Her Son’s Death? Megan Garcia v. Character.AI & Google

What if the worst fears around AI come true? For Megan Garcia, that’s already happened. In February, after spending months... more

05 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Nathan Myhrvold: Tech’s Renaissance Man

Nathan Myhrvold likes to challenge conventional wisdom. When the founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures (and former Chief Technology Officer... more

02 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King

Happy Thanksgiving, On listeners — today, we’re featuring a special episode of Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, one of... more

28 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
Leaving X? Where Next? On Bluesky, Threads and the “Fediverse”

Elon Musk’s social media platform X lost more than 280,000 global users the day after the US presidential election. Meanwhile,... more

25 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Charlamagne tha God on Trump, Journalism and that Anti-Trans Ad

Lenard McKelvey is a best-selling author, entrepreneur and media mogul, but you probably know him as Charlamagne Tha God: host... more

21 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity

Jon Chu grew up in Silicon Valley, in the shadow of Apple Park. His father, Chef Chu, still runs his... more

18 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trump, Palestine and Journalism as a “Contact Sport”

What role will writers play as we head into a second Trump term? Author, journalist and Howard University professor Ta-Nehisi... more

14 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Trump’s Second Term: How He Did It & What to Expect

What does a second Trump presidency mean for America? Kara hosts a panel of experts and reporters to reflect on... more

11 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Trump vs Democracy: Two Historians’ Perspectives

President-elect Donald J. Trump has won a resounding victory against Vice President Kamala Harris, and now, the man who promised... more

07 Nov 2024 · 59 minutes
The “Elon Election”: What It Means For America and Musk

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, isn’t on the ballot for the 2024 U.S. election, but he might... more

04 Nov 2024 · 56 minutes
Timothy Snyder and Bill Adair on the War on Truth & The Fight for Freedom

Lying has always been a part of politics, but in recent years, political lies have come to dominate our elections... more

31 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Reid Hoffman on Trump, Elon, Peter Thiel and Lina Khan

Reid Hoffman isn’t just one of the most influential entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley — he’s also one of... more

28 Oct 2024 · 37 minutes
Seth Meyers on Parenting, Podcasting & Late Night

Has late-night TV passed its peak? Ticket sales for live comedy shows are booming and there’s no shortage of streaming... more

24 Oct 2024 · 58 minutes
Robert Downey Jr., Ayad Akhtar and Bartlett Sher on “Truthful Lies” in AI, Art and Politics

“Digital machines are not just remaking stories, they're remaking us.” So says Oscar-winning actor Robert Downey Jr. as the titular... more

21 Oct 2024 · 59 minutes
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI

What do cybersecurity experts, journalists in foreign conflicts, indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Drake have in common?... more

17 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
On with Kara Swisher
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“Digital machines are not just remaking stories, they're remaking us.” So says Oscar-winning actor Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character in... more