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On with Kara Swisher

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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“I'm sure you guys have too fielded a lot of questions about what is the difference between this strategy of Musk's and what Elizabeth Holmes went to jail for. And I honestly don't have a good answer to that.” — Kirsten Grind, On with Kara Swisher
Kirsten Grind · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We realized, it took a long time, that we could be distrusted, we could be disliked, but we can never be boring… That the essence of an entertainment brand is to be thrilling. Like you just can't ignore it.” — Reed Hastings, On with Kara Swisher
Reed Hastings · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“For an actor, for a character, it's the best because you always want to be losing. Losing is way more interesting than someone who's winning all the time. Winning is boring to watch, but to lose, that was so humiliating.” — Keri Russell, On with Kara Swisher
Keri Russell · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I fear that it's going to take a Hiroshima Nagasaki type event for everybody to wake up. And I fear that that will be the reckoning for us to find accountability. But clearly, these people elude accountability and deflect accountability and are, in a sense, post-accountability.” — Jeremy Strong, On with Kara Swisher
Jeremy Strong · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“All I can do is offer an opinion about AI as it pertains to my field. And it's that I'm optimistic, actually, because I think the audience is going to reject it. I think that if you play Call of Duty, you don't have an emotional connection to the people you're shooting in Call of Duty. That's going to be your experience watching AI Schindler's List.” — Aaron Sorkin, On with Kara Swisher
Aaron Sorkin · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I say it on occasion, just wanting a little bit more love than my brothers got. Just a teeny bit on occasion. And that's a hell of an engine.” — Ari Emanuel, On with Kara Swisher
Ari Emanuel · 5 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I constructed, based on memories, letters, and everything I had, a version of my mother who I could talk to. … The thing I created was not my mother.” — Sherry Turkle, On with Kara Swisher
Sherry Turkle · 24 Sep 2026 Listen →
“There is an AI arms race that's completely out of control. It's all gas, no brake, no steering.” — Chris Larsen, On with Kara Swisher
Chris Larsen · 7 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

On with Kara Swisher is hosted by Kara Swisher , Nayeema Raza , Preet Bharara , Jon Finer , Alex Heath , Jake Sullivan , Megan Rapinoe , Seth Matlins , Sean Illing , Sam Sanders , Jonquilyn Hill and Ellis Hamburger .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    Courage vs. Capitulation: Lewis and Weisberg on Trump 2.0’s Quiet Heroes and Loud Cowards

    With Michael Lewis , Jacob Weisberg and Nicole Wallace

  2. 29 Oct 2026

    Can Elon Musk Buy His Way Out of a Reckoning?

    With Kirsten Grind , Catherine Rampell and Faiz Siddiqui

  3. 28 Oct 2026

    High Stakes with HRC: The Midterms Prep Episode

  4. 26 Oct 2026

    Reed Hastings on Hollywood’s Future, Netflix’s Shakeup and Knowing When to Leave

    With Reed Hastings

  5. 22 Oct 2026

    From ‘Trump Curious’ to ‘Trump Furious’: Inside the Midterm Odds

    With David Wasserman , Kristen Soltis Anderson and Terrance Woodbury

  6. 21 Oct 2026

    High Stakes with HRC: The Accountability Episode

  7. 19 Oct 2026

    Patchett, Kingsolver & Lee on the Art—and Uncertainty—of Being a Modern Novelist

    With Barbara Kingsolver , Min Jin Lee and Ann Patchett

  8. 15 Oct 2026

    Keri Russell on ‘The Diplomat,’ Powerful Women, and Loving the Mess

    With Keri Russell

  9. 14 Oct 2026

    High Stakes with HRC: The Affordability Episode

    With Hillary Clinton

  10. 12 Oct 2026

    Aaron Sorkin and Jeremy Strong on Zuckerberg’s Power and Facebook’s “Reckoning”

    With Aaron Sorkin and Jeremy Strong

  11. 8 Oct 2026

    Inside 'Musk': Power, Family and the Making of a Tech Demagogue

  12. 5 Oct 2026

    Ari Emanuel on his New Memoir, ‘Ragent’ Reputation, and Changing Hollywood

    With Ari Emanuel

Guests

William Cohan (6 episodes), Casey Newton (5 episodes), Maggie Haberman (5 episodes), Joanna Stern (5 episodes), Kristen Soltis Anderson (3 episodes), Rahm Emanuel (3 episodes), Audie Cornish (3 episodes), Reid Hoffman (3 episodes), Rachel Maddow (3 episodes), David Axelrod (3 episodes), Astead Herndon (3 episodes), Tim Higgins (3 episodes), and 548 more.