David Remnick

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

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.

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 […]
The more unwilling Binyamin Netanyahu is to make a leap of history, the more dangerous it’s going to get.
7 min
Why isn’t the New Yorker editor worried about what has been happening to the magazine industry?
9 min
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.
3 min
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 […]
3 min
Obama wants to win. He’s “not some kind of pie-eyed idealist.”
6 min
Jerry Kellman spent countless hours with the President eating at McDonald’s and talking about life.