Election 2024

Expanding the Vocabulary

With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Danner

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024 issue

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

November 7, 2024 issue

Jessica T. Mathews

The Race That Can’t Be Won

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

October 17, 2024 issue

Samuel Earle

The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

October 17, 2024 issue

Sue Halpern

The Coming Tech Autocracy

A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency for AI or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government.

November 7, 2024 issue

Christine Henneberg

Calculated Risks

Since the overturning of Roe, it has once again become a subversive act to provide medical care for women as though their lives are as valuable as men’s.

November 7, 2024 issue

Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler

The Only Way to Fix US Health Care

The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences.

November 7, 2024 issue

Election 2024: A Symposium

Katherine Bradford: Women Under the Stars, 2022

Jacqueline Rose

Antigone’s Law

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Lilla

Another Change Election

November 7, 2024 issue

Susan Faludi

Laugh-In

November 7, 2024 issue

Elaine Blair

Stop Infantilizing Moderates!

November 7, 2024 issue

Jonathan Lethem

The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration

November 7, 2024 issue

Anne Enright

Words Not Said

November 7, 2024 issue

Matthew Desmond

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

November 7, 2024 issue

Pankaj Mishra

The Flailing Superpower

November 7, 2024 issue

Marilynne Robinson

‘The Joke Turns Fearful Earnest’

November 7, 2024 issue

Nathaniel Rich

Silent Spring

November 7, 2024 issue

Election 2024

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

November 7, 2024 issue

Mark Danner

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

November 7, 2024 issue

Samuel Earle

The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

October 17, 2024 issue

Joseph O’Neill

Bring Back the Fight!

In recent weeks, Harris and Walz have replaced a dynamic movement with a meat-and-potatoes campaign. That needs to change.

October 3, 2024

Ben Tarnoff

More Babies!

Trump and his set act carefree in the face of catastrophe—and they give their supporters permission to do the same.

February 7, 2025

Dan Kaufman

What Labor Could Lose

After four years under Jennifer Abruzzo, who fought to revitalize its mission, the National Labor Relations Board finds itself more threatened than ever.

January 19, 2025

Diane Ravitch

‘Their Kind of Indoctrination’

For a range of far-right activists, Trump’s second term will be a chance to discipline public schools—and ultimately defund them.

January 11, 2025

Piper French

The Reunited

The Biden administration has spent years reunifying families separated during Trump’s first term—but as his second approaches, they find themselves vulnerable again.

December 11, 2024

Walter M. Shaub Jr.

‘Acts of Submission’

An open letter to the director of the Office of Government Ethics.

November 22, 2024

David Cole

What Could Stop Him?

Our Constitution includes multiple guardrails against Trump-like presidents. But those checks and balances only work when citizens resist.

November 18, 2024

Dahlia Krutkovich, Omer Bartov, Catherine Coleman Flowers, and Joshua Craze

The Return of Trump—VII

On veterans, fascism, Africa abandoned, and “less-than-kosher activities.”

November 17, 2024

Yuri Slezkine, Wesley Lowery, Carolina A. Miranda, Nitin K. Ahuja, and Susan Neiman

The Return of Trump—VI

On rage, fluoride, the task of the journalist, the Garden of American Heroes, and the Buffs and the Blues.

November 15, 2024

Astra Taylor, Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, and Anne Enright

The Return of Trump—V

On tantrums, dominion, the Southern Strategy, fearmongering ads, New York’s haves and have-nots, and Candidate Fain.

November 13, 2024

William Neuman

One Door at a Time

Canvassing for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, I came to feel that face-to-face contact was no match for social media, online influencers, and Fox News.

November 12, 2024