The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, presents conversations and feature stories about current events. On Wednesdays, the senior editor Tyler Foggatt goes deep on a consequential political story via far-reaching interviews with staff writers and outside experts. And, on Fridays, the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the latest developments in Washington and beyond, offering an encompassing understanding of this moment in American politics.

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Protests Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism Push Trump and the G.O.P. to a Breaking Point


During Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, mainstream Republicans expressed disgust with his divisive rhetoric, but once he became President, they fell in line behind him. The protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd have created a moment of reckonin


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 June 11, 2020  18m
 
 

A Former D.O.J. Official on How to Fix Policing


Ron Davis was a cop for almost thirty years, first as an officer with the Oakland P.D., then as the chief of police of East Palo Alto, California. In 2013, he joined President Barack Obama's Department of Justice to direct initiatives on policing reform.


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 June 8, 2020  11m
 
 

The Killing of George Floyd and the Origins of American Racism


The killing of George Floyd has inspired a renewed public reckoning with America’s legacy of racism. Racial prejudice is so ingrained in the origins of the country, and so pervasive in all of our institutions, that its insidious effects on all of us can


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 June 4, 2020  23m
 
 

A Rise in Anti-Chinese Rhetoric Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic


Peter Hessler has been in one of the strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world: starting in January, he was quarantined with his family in Chengdu, China, presaging what life would soon look like in America. Now, as restrictions lift in China, Hessler sa


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 June 1, 2020  20m
 
 

A Guide to the Economics and Politics of the Coronavirus Recovery


Just a month ago, experts were predicting that the American economy would be slow to recover from the pandemic. Unemployment remains at record highs, but, as the country begins to reopen, federal policies that have bolstered small businesses and bailed o


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 May 28, 2020  16m
 
 

To Test a Vaccine for COVID-19, Should Volunteers Risk Their Lives?


When he was eighteen, Abie Rohrig decided that he wanted to donate a kidney to save the life of a stranger who needed it. At twenty, he put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial that would test the efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine. A


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 May 25, 2020  17m
 
 

Could the Coronavirus Pandemic Change Iran’s Political Future?


Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, has failed to cover up the extent of damage posed to the country by the coronavirus crisis. Dexter Filkins travelled to Iran in February, just as the outbreak was metastasizing. He joins Dorothy Wickenden to dis


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 May 21, 2020  18m
 
 

Mayors Describe the Challenge of Safely Ending Lockdown


With non-essential business starting to reopen in many states, elected officials have to make a call on a series of impossible questions: How soon is too soon? How safe is safe enough? What will the cost be, in new cases of the disease and in deaths?   


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 May 18, 2020  16m
 
 

Trump’s Day at the Supreme Court, Remote and Live-Streamed


This term, for the third time in recent U.S. history, the Court is considering just how far executive privilege extends. On Tuesday, the court heard two cases relating to President Trump’s financial records—one brought by the House of Representatives and


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 May 14, 2020  19m
 
 

Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden


Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 deaths. Governor Gretchen Whitmer enacted some of the country’s most stringent stay-at-home orders, even forbidding landscaping and fishing. Furious and so


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 May 11, 2020  23m