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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and issuing illegal orders, the focus has shifted to t…

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A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation

The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to as…

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Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job

Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for Tucker Carlson’s the Daily Caller. Collins sta…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”

Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of t…

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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring to …

1 year ago

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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and gold worth more than ha…

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What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine

Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dictatorial style of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s lean to…

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Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television

When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actors light up a room, but Alan Cumming is more of a di…

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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and draconian executive orders coming from the Trump …

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Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards

David Remnick is joined by Alexandra Schwartz, the co-host of the podcast Critics at Large, and The New Yorker’s august film critic Richard Brody. Th…

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