Mark Danner

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

Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Cuba, October 2018

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.

June 1, 2020

Robert B. Silvers in his office at The New York Review of Books, early 1980s

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

What Trump Could Do

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

March 23, 2017 issue

Donald Trump at his campaign rally at Pittsburgh International Airport, November 2016

The Real Trump

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

Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher

December 22, 2016 issue

On the Election—II

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

November 10, 2016 issue

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…

Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

by Donald J. Trump

May 26, 2016 issue

Former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo, one of the main architects of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program from 2001 to 2009

The CIA: The Devastating Indictment

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program

by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

February 5, 2015 issue

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.

December 30, 2014

How Robert Gates Got Away With It

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

by Robert M. Gates

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

by Robert M. Gates

August 14, 2014 issue

Cheney: ‘The More Ruthless the Better’

The World According to Dick Cheney

a film directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

by Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

by Barton Gellman

500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars

by Kurt Eichenwald

May 8, 2014 issue

Vice President Dick Cheney and Press Secretary Scott McClellan in the Oval Office,
March 2006

He Remade Our World

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

Decision Points

by George W. Bush

 Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

by Barton Gellman

The World According to Dick Cheney

a film directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

by Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney

April 3, 2014 issue

Dick Cheney with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, June 2007

In the Darkness of Dick Cheney

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

The World According to Dick Cheney

a film directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

by Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney

Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

by Dick Cheney and Jonathan Reiner, MD, with Liz Cheney

March 6, 2014 issue

An Allied soldier and Iraqi looters, Basra, Iraq, April 7, 2003

Rumsfeld: Why We Live in His Ruins

The Unknown Known

a film directed by Errol Morris

Known and Unknown: A Memoir

by Donald Rumsfeld

By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld

by Bradley Graham

February 6, 2014 issue

Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the Oval Office, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld Revealed

The Unknown Known

a film directed by Errol Morris

Known and Unknown: A Memoir

by Donald Rumsfeld

By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld

by Bradley Graham

January 9, 2014 issue

Ronald Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld, then his Middle East envoy, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1983

Rumsfeld's War

More than a dozen years later we still live in the world that George W. Bush’s “war on terror” made

The Unknown Known

a film directed by Errol Morris

Known and Unknown: A Memoir

by Donald Rumsfeld

By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld

by Bradley Graham

December 19, 2013 issue

A Syrian rebel throwing a homemade bomb toward the Palace of Justice, which is controlled by forces loyal to President Assad, Aleppo, October 4, 2013

Syria: Is There a Solution?

The Syria Dilemma

edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel

November 7, 2013 issue

How, and What, Obama Won

December 20, 2012 issue

Mitt Romney arriving to deliver his foreign policy address at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, October 8, 2012

The Politics of Fear

The Global War on Terror shows no sign of coming to an end

November 22, 2012 issue

After September 11: Our State of Exception

October 13, 2011 issue