Tyler Foggatt

New York

Senior Editor at The New Yorker

Host at The Political Scene

senior editor @NewYorker

Articles

Taylor Swift’s Master Plan

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

In retrospect, that Tumblr post might be one of the most important things that Swift has ever written. It has all the qualities of a good Taylor Swift song, conjuring an image of an innocent teen-ager who got in over her head, and the men intent on exploiting her. Whereas her predecessors struggled to get their fans to care about the inner workings of the music industry, Swift created a real-life story that, in a cleverly meta way, was all about why she deserves to own the stories she’s told.
Why Tom Cruise Will Never Die

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

By constantly putting his life at risk, Cruise has saved his career. The stunts have become so vital to the franchise that Cruise and McQuarrie have taken to planning them first, and then figuring out the plot later. “We start all these movies with each asking the other, ‘What do you want to do with this one?’ ” McQuarrie explained, at the première for “Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” at Cannes.
Is March Madness All Luck?

Mar 23, 2025 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can happen. Unlike the college-football playoffs—which are highly restrictive, and weighted toward bigger schools from powerhouse conferences—the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament features sixty-eight teams, playing in a sudden-death format. This produces as much good basketball as it does weird basketball.
Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?

Jan 8, 2025 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. This week’s reading:“Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down,” by Adam Gopnik“How Much Do Democrats Need to Change?,” by Peter Slevin“Bourbon Street After the Terror,” by Paige Williams“How Sheriffs Might Power Trump’s Deportation Machine,” by Jessica Pishko“New Mexico’s Nuclear-Weapons Boom,” by Abe StreepTune in to The Political Scene wherever you get your podcasts.
What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?

Sep 4, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jane Mayer |Evan Osnos |Tyler Foggatt

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. How has a phrase that just a decade ago had a narrow, technical definition come to essentially represent anything political that we don’t like?
Do Celebrity Presidential Endorsements Matter?

Sep 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

Republicans and Democrats have long fought over the Black vote, the evangelical vote, and the middle-class vote. But recently they’ve been warring over the Swiftie vote.
How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?

Aug 28, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry joins Tyler Foggatt to unpack Kamala Harris’s cultural blitzkrieg and how a litany of A-list celebrities and online influencers have helped revitalize the Presidential race. “It’s like the scene in ‘Pulp Fiction’ or something, where Uma Thurman overdoses and then has the adrenaline shot into her heart,” Fry said.
The Heartbreak of Taylor Swift Fans

Aug 9, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

In today’s edition, Alex Ross on a Holocaust survivor’s extraordinary story. But first, exclusively for newsletter readers, the editor Tyler Foggatt reports from Vienna, where three shows from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour were cancelled following a terror threat. Plus:• What does Kamala Harris stand for?
“Challengers” Is Essentially a Well-Shot Commercial

May 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

“I don’t watch tennis matches,” Luca Guadagnino, the director of “Challengers,” a movie about tennis players, recently said in an interview with Little White Lies, a film magazine. “It’s quite boring to me.” The problem, he explained, has to do with how live sports are shot: tennis matches don’t look very dynamic because the camera has to be objective. “But for this film,” Guadagnino went on, “the tennis had to be very subjective. And who’s the subject?
Regina King (No Relation to M.L.K.!) Takes on Shirley Chisholm

Mar 25, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tyler Foggatt

When the actor Regina King was growing up, in Los Angeles, she would tell people that she was related to Martin Luther King, Jr. “My birthday is the same as Dr. King’s,” she explained recently. Congress made the date a federal holiday in 1983, after years of lobbying led by Coretta Scott King. But Regina King started going to elementary school in the nineteen-seventies. “I got away with it for three grades, to get out of doing things in school,” she said.