Comment: Recent Episodes
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A new book praises the President’s handling of the midterms, but the midterms are beginning to feel like a long time ago.
The senseless sloganeering that produced the phrase “too big to fail” during the Great Recession has a contemporary corollary: too big to convict.
Across nearly a century, The New Yorker’s contributors have created a veritable Noah’s archive of work about their creaturely counterparts.
The governor called the fires Hawaii’s “largest natural disaster” ever. They would more accurately be labelled an “unnatural disaster.”
Donald Trump’s former running mate is now not only running against him—he’s set to be the star witness at one of his trials.
No case in our system of justice could more directly and fundamentally address the stakes of American democracy and the rule of law.
An extremist government’s assault on the courts has inflamed the country and invigorated its liberal camp.
Instead, they provide an almost encyclopedic guide to the former President’s political and personal character.
A rapid end to burning fossil fuel would arrest the heating that has caused extreme damage in recent weeks; and that rapid end is possible.
The scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in the moment. But not entirely impossible.
An awareness that the air around you isn’t fit to breathe can be a uniquely alarming sensation. It is also likely to become more common.
The former President claims that if he just calls a document personal—whether it plausibly is or is not—no one can even question him about it.
Trump is not only the first former President to face federal charges but also the most confounding front-runner ever in a Presidential primary.
State legislatures across the country are making it easier to hire minors in low-paid and dangerous jobs.
It isn’t that the Florida governor is charmless—or it’s not only that. It’s that his career has been spent on a charmlessness offensive.
The right’s push to loosen restrictions is resulting in a judicial and legislative free-for-all that is intersecting, disastrously, with the 2024 Presidential race.
Supreme Court Justices, alone in our system, are not truly regulated by anyone other than themselves.
Pandemic-era policy contained flashes of what is possible: real achievements in making life easier for millions of Americans.
The big question for the G.O.P. during the Biden era is whether the legacy of Carlson’s culture wars adds up to a viable platform for a major political party.
Millions of women find that their access to health care hinges on two conflicting rulings, and is seemingly headed, once more, to the Supreme Court.
Trump must now operate with two calendars in mind—the court’s and the campaign’s—and so must much of the machinery of American politics.
The former President’s campaigns against officials investigating him have supplied Joe Biden with a favored theme: the need to fortify democratic institutions.
The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles.
The case may have profound implications not only for the two companies but also for the legal framework in which the media operate.
Republican state attorneys general are threatening action against pharmacies that dispense it, as a federal lawsuit challenges the F.D.A.’s authority to approve it.
It’s been a winter of garish factional disputes in the G.O.P., and Donald Trump remains a seismic force of instability.
Not since the Berlin Wall fell has the world been cleaved so deeply by the kind of conflict that John F. Kennedy called a “long, twilight struggle.”
Every credible analyst of the invasion of Ukraine has been stunned by the scale of the Russian President’s folly—and his failure extends well beyond the battlefield.
Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.
The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.
House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.
With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed?
Why did the nation, which suppressed the virus for years, fail to prepare for the inevitable?
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Griner’s release recalls the lessons of the effort to free Robert Goodman, an African American Navy navigator, from Syria.
At stake in Moore v. Harper is the question of how elections should be run—and who should resolve the inevitable disputes when they arise.
It will cease to exist, as a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House. Can the committee’s work move forward without the committee itself?
The Speaker of the House is stepping aside, but her school of politics isn’t going anywhere.
In New England, the birds were once hunted nearly to extinction; now they’re swarming the streets like they own the place. Sometimes turnabout is fowl play.
Will the era of Stop the Steal—and the G.O.P.’s overt challenges to democracy—finally start to recede?
It would be irresponsible to draw too direct a line between the rhetorical climate and any individual’s actions. But, obviously, none of it bodes well.
The Supreme Court hears a challenge to affirmative action this week—and will likely overrule more than four decades of precedents on college admissions.
In his efforts to escape the “cycles of order and disorder, rise and fall” that China’s emperors could not, is Xi himself slipping into them?
One shouldn’t expect an overflowing of dignity in any of the half-dozen states where Senate seats are being seriously contested.
The last time people were writing in Russian so urgently was in the late nineteen-eighties, when Soviet citizens were confronted with the terror of the Stalinist past.
There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.
Governor DeSantis appeared to be attempting to troll people whose magnanimity, he seemed to believe, is inversely proportional to the extent to which a given problem has an impact on their own lives.
After two and a half years of COVID, we seem to have arrived at another judgment: the value of normalcy exceeds that of caution.
You don’t get through seventy years of best behavior, on the throne, without a sense of humor; indeed, it may be the one thing that keeps you going.
The first and last President of the U.S.S.R. was, as he once put it, both a “product” and an “anti-product” of the Soviet system.
His literary accomplishments richly merit recognition from the Swedish Academy—and the prize would be a symbolic rebuke to the enemies of the free word.
Writing about the young Marlon Brando, Truman Capote hoped to elevate what he called “the very lowest form of journalism” into sublime nonfiction prose. For nearly a century, his New Yorker colleagues have aspired to do the same.
Twenty years ago, Senator John McCain tried to spearhead an effort. What has happened to Republicans since then?
Americans have long understood the species’ extinction as a warning. But is trying to “de-extinct” it really a good idea?
The bill, now supported by Joe Manchin, reflects the growing strength of the environmental movement, but also the lingering influence of the fossil-fuel industry.
At its final hearing of the summer, the committee continued to establish the ex-President’s personal culpability in a number of events related to January 6th. The bigger issue may be how to hold him accountable.
His Senate candidacy is a clear example of the warping effect that Donald Trump has had on the Republican Party nationally.
But what if their big and fast moves, eviscerating some constitutional rights and inflating others, are bound for collision?
We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.