The New Yorker Comment: Recent Episodes
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In “A Climate Change?,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes about climate change and the new age of extinction.
In "Trust Me," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on how last week's debate was largely about how radical, or just how ambitious, the Party and its candidates are prepared to be.
In "This Is a Test," Jelani Cobb delves into the clashes over the New York City school system's reforms.
In "Another Race to Run," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the complexities of the Senate race.
In "Hong Kong on the March," Evan Osnos reports on how the mass demonstrations are in bold defiance of Chinese authority, but a crackdown could be incalculably costly.
In "See Nothing," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on the failure to see what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.
In "Words and Wounds," David Remnick writes about how President Trump is bearing out Toni Morrison's warnings about the violence of language.
In "The Health-Care Defense," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the battle for healthcare.
In "Margin Call," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Democratic Party's moving margins.
In "The Don and Joe Show," Amy Davidson Sorkin delves into what a Biden-Trump presidential race might look like.
In "No Mercy," Margaret Talbot writes about the fate of immigrant children at the border.
In "The Threat to Roe," Jeffrey Toobin writes about the abortion fight and the pretense of precedent.
In "Last Chances," Elizabeth Kolbert reports on climate change and the new age of extinction.
In "Twenty for 2020," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Democrats and the 2020 presidential election.
In "What Mueller Found," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about President Donald Trump's brush with accountability.
In What's The Story, Steve Coll writes that the Attorney General’s summary reported no conspiracy, but serious newsrooms and journalists did the job they are supposed to do.
The special counsel’s report is in, and other investigations are accelerating. And yet it is impossible to imagine the President changing his behavior, much less giving up his office. In "It's Mueller Time," David Remnick writes about what comes next, now that the report is finally out.
The next two weeks will test how deeply a nation can immerse itself in self-delusion. In "Last Exit to Brexit," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the magical thinking around the upcoming deadline.
In "The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump," Adam Gopnik writes that real and reasonable arguments among congressional Democrats—and, indeed, among the public—range from the practical to the procedural.
In "Reality Shows," Evan Osnos writes about Trump, Kim, Cohen, and the limits of the President's power.
In "May Days," Jeffrey Toobin writes about Andrew McCabe count down to the Mueller report.
In "House Cleaning," Jelani Cobb writes about how the House is taking on Amerca's voting-rights problem.
In "Guns and the City," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on whether the Supreme Court will use a New York City regulation to strike down gun laws.
In "On the Border," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the Republican's test at the border.
In "Democrats in the House," Margaret Talbot writes about the house Democrats best path forward.
In "Run, Republicans, Run," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on how the G.O.P has a chance to redeem itself, by launching a primary challenge to the President.
In "Party of One," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the midterm elections, and their aftermath.
In "This America," Jill Lepore reports on how the bloody-mindedness of broken men can be countered only by principle and fortitude.
In "The Stakes," David Remnick reports on how the midterm elections are a referendum on Donald Trump.
The suppression of minority votes is the homegrown corollary of the Administration’s xenophobic rhetoric—an attempt to place a white thumb on the demographic scale.
In "Global Warning," Elizabeth Kolbert asks what is Donald Trump’s response to the U.N.’s dire climate report?
In "Bystanders to History," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Brett Kavanaugh and the G.O.P.'s bargain with Trump.
In "On The Attack," Margaret Talbot writes about how Christine Blasey Ford's experience was just as bad as Anita Hill's - maybe worse.
In "The Next Confirmation," Amy Davidson Sorkin asks, do the Democrats have a post-Kavanaugh, post-midterm game plan?
In "The Week that Was," Jeffrey Toobin writes about the deceptive contrast between Trump and Cavanaugh.
In "Ten Years After," George Packer reports on how the financial crisis of 2008 was years in the making and has had a lasting impact on American political life.
In "The Digital Public Square," Steve Coll reports on Alex Jones and social media neutrality.
In "Get Out and Vote," George Packer reports on how the midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump’s consolidation of power—and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn’t matter.
In "Long, Hot Summers," Evan Osnos reports on how the G.O.P. is standing by as President Trump upends American security.
In "Bad Trips," Amy Davidson Sorkin reports on how, when President Trump brings up Russia, he seems to be speaking of something that is defined less by reality than by what he needs it to be.
In "After Kennedy," Jeffrey Toobin reports on how President Trump's Supreme Court pick could undo Kennedy's legacy.
In "Family Values," Margaret Talbot reports on how the policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a President with no moral center.
In "Going Rogue," George Packer writes about in how, in half a week, between Quebec and Singapore, Trump showed that the liberal order is hateful to him, and that he wants out.
In "Kim's Chinese Lessons," Evan Osnos writes about Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's nuclear summit, and the bid for history.
In "Bad Bets," Robin Wright reports on the end of the Iran deal, and Trump'confrontationaltatial foreign policy.
In "Dream On," Amy Davidson Sorkin write's about how the Administration's incompetence and the courts' rectitudes have seen the Dreamers through. But those factors may be temporary safeguards.
In "Unrule of Law," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Trump, Guliani, and all the president's lawyers.
In "Might and Right," George Packer writes about how the president and his new national security advisor, John Bolton, are in an especially bad position to respond to the atrocities in Syria.
In "About Facebook," Andrew Marantz writes about the future of Facebook after Cambridge Analytica.
In "Death of a King," Jelani Cobb writes about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and what it means on the 50th Anniversary of his assassination.
In "Account Settings," David Remnick reports on Cambridge Analytica and a moral reckoning in Silicon Valley.
In "A Revelatory Case," Amy Davidson Sorkin delves into what went wrong in the Stormy Daniels case.
In "Illiberal Arts," David Remnick writes about Donald Trump and the stress test of liberal democracy.
In "Indicted," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Robert Mueller’s distinctly American indictments.
In "State of the Resistance," Jelani Cobb writes about the opposition to President Trump.
In "Firing Offenses," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about the questions that Mueller might ask Trump.
In "Trump in the World," Amy Davidson Sorkin asked, "how can someone so “America first” attend an event so globally minded?"
In "Slash and Burn," Elizabeth Kolbert writes about the damage done by Trump's Department of the Interior.
In “The Lost Emperor,” David Remnick writes about how the West Wing has come to resemble the darkest realms of Twitter.
In "Faking It," Steve Coll writes about how, in attacking the media, the president has in many ways strengthened it.
In "Tests for Liberals," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Al Franken, Roy Moore, and a test for the democratic party.
In "Autumn of the Patriarchy," David Remnick delves into the Weinstein moment and the Trump presidency.
In "The Silent Majority," Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Jeff Flake and the G.O.P.'s complicity problem.
In "Limits of Power," Jia Tolentino writes about Harvey Weinstein and the limits of powerful men.
In “Disasters Will Happen,” Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about President Trump’s trips to Puerto Rico and Las Vegas.
In “In The Dark,” Amy Davidson Sorkin explores how America is dealing with hurricane disasters.
In “Coming Storms,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes about Hurricane Harvey and climate change.
Jelani Cobb writes that some saw Steve Bannon’s blend of nationalism and racial grievance as the ballast in Trump’s ship. But will Bannon’s banishment change anything?