The Sunday Magazine for November 10, 2024
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay:
What's ahead for Americans as Donald Trump heads back to the White House
After a decisive election victory, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has begun choosing who the key players will be in his second administration. Meanwhile, Democrats are dissecting how they failed to connect with voters they believed should have been their base. Chattopadhyay reconvenes our U.S. Election Panel – Washington Post White House bureau chief Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa, Wall Street Journal senior political correspondent Molly Ball and former CBC Washington correspondent Keith Boag – to wade through Trump's historic comeback and look ahead to how he may shape the country going forward.
How Taylor Swift has shaped pop music and broader culture
On Thursday, Taylor Swift brings her Eras Tour to Toronto, before wrapping it in Vancouver next month. It's raked in billions of dollars in revenue so far and cemented Swift as the world's biggest pop star. But as Rob Sheffield knows well, Swift's impact goes well beyond music. The Rolling Stone contributing editor and author of Heartbreak is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music joins Chattopadhyay to help explain Swift's outsized influence on culture, society and the pop landscape.
What Donald Trump's return to power could mean for the Middle East and Ukraine
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to bring lasting peace to the Middle East and an end to the war in Ukraine. Now that he's returning to the White House, what could the U.S. president-elect's presence signal for these global conflicts? The Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom and global affairs analyst and Atlantic Council senior fellow Michael Bociurkiw join Chattopadhyay to share their analysis on the course of these wars.
That's Puzzling! for November 2024
In the latest edition of our monthly challenge That's Puzzling!, Piya Chattopadhyay competes against one familiar voice and one clever listener in a battle of brain games devised by puzzle master Peter Brown. Playing along this month are CBC Sports reporter Devin Heroux and Waterloo, Ont. listener Skyler Xiang.