Mark Danner

The Grievance Artist

If Trump has a genius, it is his ability to shape, often out of his own self-made follies and recklessness and crimes, a narrative that relentlessly reaffirms his grim story of an us-versus-them America.

The Slow-Motion Coup

What has Donald Trump taken from our democracy?

We’re in an Emergency—Act Like It!

At a time when the threat of authoritarianism is rising, Democrats have a duty to make crystal clear to voters what is at stake in the November elections.

‘Reality Rebellion’

By doubling down on Trump's Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.

Journalism in a Time of Crisis

How has the work of journalists been altered by pandemic, protests, political violence, and the transformation of the news business?

‘Be Ready to Fight’

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump's army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.

The Con He Rode In On

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

Hypocrisy and Human Rights

Human rights are dead in the words and actions of our president, the highest symbolic exponent of American values. But the president is not everything.

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

What Trump Could Do

The Trump ascendancy has been an ongoing seminar on where norms end and laws begin.

The Real Trump

He is an improviser, a performer, a creator of new worlds.

On the Election—II

A struggle for political power in which, for once, all is at stake

The Magic of Donald Trump

We are told again and again: his is the most improbable political story in decades, perhaps in history. And yet…

The CIA: The Devastating Indictment

Our New Politics of Torture

Twelve years after the decision to use torture was secretly made, we’re seeing a public effort not only to defend the CIA but also to defend torture itself.

How Robert Gates Got Away With It

Cheney: ‘The More Ruthless the Better’

He Remade Our World

Dick Cheney’s legacy: torture and extrajudicial killing, warrantless surveillance

In the Darkness of Dick Cheney

His memoirs display an almost perfect lack of second-guessing, regret, or reconsideration

Rumsfeld: Why We Live in His Ruins

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had insisted that he would gather all control in his hands, refused to understand what was happening in Iraq.