Inside the Democratic Party’s Rift Over Israel and Gaza
Andrew Marantz, who has reported extensively on the far right and far left of American politics, recently wrote a piece about how the different wings of the Democratic Party have responded to Hamas’s...
View ArticleThe Issue That Will Decide the 2024 Election
The Washington Roundtable: In this past week’s off-cycle elections, Ohioans voted to enshrine the right to abortion access in their state constitution; Virginia Democrats took full control of their...
View ArticleWill the Government Rein in Amazon?
In a relatively short period of time, Amazon has exerted an enormous amount of influence over a broad spectrum of American life. From the groceries we buy to the movies and television shows we watch,...
View ArticleWe've Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far)
Deepfakes, videos generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence, allow people to create content at a level of sophistication once only available to major Hollywood studios. Since the first...
View ArticleTrump’s Vindictive Second-Term Agenda
The Washington Roundtable: In recent weeks, Americans have begun to get a clearer picture of what a second Donald Trump Administration could look like. Some clues have come from organizations like the...
View ArticleA Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Violence and threats against Jews have been...
View ArticleWhat Draws Latino Voters to Trump
How is it that Donald Trump, who won the Presidency with racist rhetoric and a promise to build a wall along the southern border, has managed to make gains in the Latino community with each election...
View ArticleGeoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence
The American public’s increasing fascination with artificial intelligence—its rapid advancement and ability to reshape the future—has put the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton in an awkward position....
View ArticleHow Henry Kissinger Conquered Washington
The Washington Roundtable: Henry Kissinger, who died this week, at the age of a hundred, served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations as national-security adviser and Secretary of State; for a period,...
View ArticleHow Did Our Democracy Get so Fragile?
We’re in the midst of another election season, and yet again American democracy hangs in the balance, with a leading Presidential candidate who has threatened to suspend parts of the Constitution. How...
View ArticleThe Post-Civil War Precedent for the Trump Trials
Donald Trump may be the first former President to be indicted for a crime, but he is not the first to lead an insurrection and then attempt to dodge the consequences. More than a hundred and fifty...
View ArticleWhy Are House Republicans Leaving Congress?
The Washington Roundtable: Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced his resignation from Congress this week, not long after a coup by several of his Republican colleagues cost him the leadership. The...
View ArticleLiz Cheney: Donald Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted
Liz Cheney has been Republican royalty, and a conservative stalwart in Washington—a daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney and culture warrior Lynne Cheney. But after protesting Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleMasha Gessen on the Holocaust, Israel, and the Politics of Memory
Last week, the U.S. Congress passed a nonbinding resolution that deemed any expression of anti-Zionism to be a form of antisemitism. This move closely follows the model set by the German government,...
View ArticleHow the American Right Came to Love Putin
The Washington Roundtable: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s requests for more aid from the United States got a frosty reception from many Republicans on the Hill this week. It’s the most recent...
View ArticleMosab Abu Toha’s Harrowing Detention in Gaza
Growing up in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha wasn’t used to seeing Israeli soldiers in person. “You are bombed from the sky. You are bombed by tanks. You do not see the people, the soldiers who are killing you...
View ArticleThe Year in Getting “Chotinered”
In 2023, Isaac Chotiner conducted more than sixty Q&As for The New Yorker, on a wide array of international and domestic topics. He has gained a reputation for being a fearless interviewer, who...
View ArticleWas 2023 a Year of Denial?
The Washington Roundtable: For their final episode of 2023, the New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos search for a single word to encapsulate U.S. politics in 2023. It...
View ArticleChristmas in Tehran: Bringing the Holidays to Hostages
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American hostages, who had been seized when revolutionaries stormed the embassy. No one from the U.S. had been...
View ArticleFrom Vanity Fair: How Donald Trump’s Lack of Faith Attracts Conservative...
Inside The Hive host Brian Stelter explores the fracturing of the evangelical church with Tim Alberta, an Atlantic staff writer and author of “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.” Alberta, the son...
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