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The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims. It’s hardly the first time that the democratic process has brough...
Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The second Trump Administration might dramatically reshape the foundations of the federal government for decades to come. Meanwhile, the Democratic ...
Donald Trump Returns. What Now?
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington roundtable is joined by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, to discuss how Donald Trump, a convicted felon and sexual abuser, ...
How Trump Took Back America
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four years after refusing to accept defeat and encouraging a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Donald J. Trump has once again been elected Pre...
Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks and months, dozens of prominent security and military officials and Republican politicians have come out against Donald Trump, declari...
Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable discusses the 2024 election with the historian Michael Beschloss, before a live audience at The New Yorker Festival, on Octo...
Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden this past weekend, the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage.” In ...
Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In these final days of the Presidential campaign, Vice-President Kamala Harris has been getting in front of voters as much as she can. Given the polls...
The Lies Are Winning
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable discusses the avalanche of disinformation that has taken over the 2024 election cycle, including an A.I. video meant to slan...
How Poll Watchers Could Help Trump Challenge the Election Results
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since Donald Trump tried to challenge the 2020 election, the Republican National Committee has been hard at work building a network of poll watchers t...
The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If Vice-President Kamala Harris wins in November, it will likely be on the strength of the pro-choice vote, which has been turning out strongly in rec...
What Billionaires See in Donald Trump
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable discusses the ultra-rich figures, such as Elon Musk, who are donating staggeringly large sums of money to Donald Trump’s c...
How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Pishko, who recently published a piece about the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss conspiracy theori...
How Kamala Harris Became a Contender
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since July 21st, when Joe Biden endorsed her in the Presidential race, all eyes have been on Vice-President Kamala Harris. The New Yorker’s Evan Osn...
What Motivates Kamala Harris?
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the final stretch of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign, includin...
What Some Gaza Protest Voters See in Trump
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the U.S. Presidential election less than a month away, and the war in Gaza now ongoing for a full year, the group of voters who are “uncommitte...
Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Long before Donald Trump got serious about politics, Newt Gingrich saw himself as the revolutionary in Washington, introducing a combative style of po...
How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the Wisconsin Democratic Party chair, Ben Wikler, to discuss ground operations for Kamala Harris in the key bat...
Will J. D. Vance’s Debate Victory Matter on Election Day?
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first and only Vice-Presidential Debate of the 2024 campaign was mostly cordial, but J. D. Vance's smooth performance tried to soften the sharper ...
Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Actors and comedians have usually played Donald Trump as larger than life, almost as a cartoon. In the new film “The Apprentice,” Sebastian Stan d...
The Election Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent polls suggest that American men and women are more divided over the 2024 election than they were in 2016, when Donald Trump ran against Hillary...
From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Political Scene brings you a recent episode of Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive,” hosted by the special correspondent Brian Stelter. The Atlan...
Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the war in Ukraine began, the historian Timothy Snyder has made several trips to Ukraine, and it was there that he wrote parts of his newest boo...
Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, New York City’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned after a federal corruption probe. Shortly after, Mayor Eric Adams’s chief l...
Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, all eyes are on Pennsylvania: its nineteen electoral votes make it the largest swing state, and it’s considered a critical battleground for...
How to Get Under a Strongman’s Skin, with George Conway
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable is joined by George Conway, co-founder of the Lincoln Project and creator of the Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee,...
Will Kamala Harris’s Debate Win Be Enough to Move the Needle?
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris successfully prosecuted a case against Donald Trump on issues ranging from abortion to the January 6th insurrection at last night’s de...
Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of the sixty-five lawsuits that Donald Trump’s team filed in the 2020 election, Democrats won sixty-four—with the attorney Marc Elias spearheading...
Will Harris Get Trump to Self-Destruct at the Debate?
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable revisits Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s past debate performances and considers how the candidates might a...
What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore?
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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? Jon ...
The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a nation long obsessed with color lines. Now that Ka...
How Much is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Kamala Harris’s “Different Kind of ‘Hope’ Campaign”
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable discusses the highs and lows of the Democratic National Convention and Vice-President Kamala Harris’s rousing acceptance s...
Unity, Millennial Cringe, And Overwhelming Relief Abound at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the sights, sounds, and broader implications of the Democratic National Conv...
Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains extremely competitive. And one factor very much in ...
What the Harris Campaign Needs to Win, with James Carville and Paul Begala
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable discusses the surge of enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz campaign among Democrats in relation to Bill Clinton’s bid for the W...
Elon Musk’s Pivot from Online Troll to Political Machinator
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Elon Musk has once again found himself at the center of a geopolitical...
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives for so long, and...
The Harris-Walz Reboot
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the addition of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the Democratic ticket a...
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, and ever since Israelis have settled on more and m...
Decoding the “Compelling” Attack Ads of the 2024 Campaign
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the fiery advertising war between Vice-President Kamala Harris and for...
J. D. Vance’s Rough Rollout and Kamala Harris’s Veepstakes
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As J. D. Vance faces a bumpy public reception on the Trump ticket and Kamala Harris considers her options for a running mate, the New Yorker staff wri...
From In the Dark: Season 3, Episode 1
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we're bringing you a special preview of the new season of the New Yorker investigative podcast In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran. The seri...
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to credential themselves,” Jennifer Palmieri, a vet...
Could Kamala Harris Be a Trump-Level Cultural Phenomenon?
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the start of Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and the surge of ...
The “Strange Charisma” of Kamala Harris
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker staff writers and cultural critics Doreen St. Félix and Vinson Cunningham join Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kamala Harris’s sudden ascen...
Special Episode: Biden Passes the Torch
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss President Biden’s stunning exit from the 2024 Presidential election ...
Trump’s Triumphant R.N.C. and Biden’s Dilemma
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss takeaways from the Republican National Convention, which Glasser repor...
A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker contributing writer Antonia Hitchens calls Tyler Foggatt from Milwaukee to offer some details and observations from the first night of ...