How Trump Won

He failed as an autocrat, despite opponents’ overblown fears, but succeeded in breaking the neoliberal consensus of the Beltway. We ignore that at our peril.

November 9, 2020

How Trump Lost

If he’d governed as he ran in 2016, as an economic populist, he would likely have been reelected. Instead, he reverted to the same old Republican playbook.

November 7, 2020

Democracy’s Afterlife

Trump, the GOP, and the rise of zombie politics.

December 3, 2020 issue

The Con He Rode In On

Why do people hardly even talk about all the car plants Donald Trump has brought to Michigan?

November 19, 2020 issue

The Presidential Transition Meets Murphy’s Law

One senior official is charged with ensuring a peaceful transfer of power when there is an apparent election winner. The Trump appointee is jeopardizing all that.

November 13, 2020

New York’s Finest?

An already strained relationship between many New Yorkers and the NYPD has only been exacerbated by the force’s brutal response to protests this year.

November 12, 2020

Turner, Critic of the Anthropocene

A new show at Tate Britain foregrounds the painter’s tragic, if beguilingly beautiful vision of a world marred by cruel industrial might.

November 11, 2020

Where Health Care Is a Human Right

How does the single-payer system work in Canada, and does it need reform?

November 19, 2020 issue

What Ails America

Although I did not understand this then, I had a severe infection in my liver. I was in a condition known as sepsis; death was close.

September 3, 2020

Health Care: The Best and the Rest

Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book makes a comparative study of eleven of the world’s health care systems. Who are the winners and losers?

October 22, 2020 issue

Cancer Under Capitalism

In ‘The Undying,’ Anne Boyer rejects the conventions of the cancer memoir in favor of a manifesto.

November 5, 2020 issue

On Breaking One’s Neck

A doctor’s near-death experience and what it reveals about the US medical care system

February 6, 2014 issue

Putting Profits Ahead of Patients

Health care in the US is enormously costly, often in ways that are baffling not only to patients but to doctors themselves.

July 13, 2017 issue

Why Is Medicine So Expensive?

The system of prescription drug pricing is a patchwork product of history, vulnerable to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry.

February 21, 2019 issue

Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

‘America’s Bitter Pill’ by Steven Brill

April 23, 2015 issue

On the Far-Right and Policing in America

“There is an appetite for accountability reporting that is a direct result of the change in public attitude.”

November 14, 2020

Framing Life in a Conflict Zone

“I miss the warmth and kindness of the people in Gaza,” says the young Palestinian photojournalist, now living in exile.

November 7, 2020

From Tammany to Trumpery

The WNYC journalist and host of the Trump, Inc. podcast on how a corrupt oligarchy has taken hold in America.

October 5, 2020

Lessons from Minsk

The Polish writer and activist on how Belarusians are schooling the world in a mass movement for democracy.

October 20, 2020