Democratic Party
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Astonishing Rise, and Uncertain Odds, of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign
Though historically unpopular as a Vice-President, Harris unified the Democratic Party around her. Evan Osnos reports on her emergence as a contender for the White House.
Our Local Correspondents
America Is Polarized. Why Are New York’s Suburbs Undecided?
Democrats’ path to winning the House runs through Long Island and the Hudson Valley, where Republicans have lately gained ground.
By Eric Lach
The Lede
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities
At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
By Emily Witt
Fault Lines
How Generic Can Kamala Harris Be?
The Vice-President has answered few direct questions since becoming the presumptive nominee. This is probably good for her campaign, but not for voters.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Dispatch
A Mood of Optimism at Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Stop
Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.
By Emily Witt
Daily Comment
Joe Biden’s Act of Selflessness
Throughout his political career, the President has turned pain into purpose. Now he must do it again.
By Evan Osnos
Daily Comment
Joe Biden Leaves the Stage
The Shakespearean end to a distinguished reign.
By Adam Gopnik
Daily Comment
The Paralysis of the Democratic Party
Its leaders have clear moral and political incentives. Why have they not come out against Joe Biden?
By Isaac Chotiner
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.
Dispatch
The Controlled Normalcy of Kamala Harris’s Trip to Las Vegas
On Tuesday, with Joe Biden’s reëlection campaign in free fall, the Vice-President travelled to Nevada for what some hoped would be her launch as the Democratic Presidential candidate.
By Antonia Hitchens
Daily Comment
The Reckoning of Joe Biden
For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment.
By David Remnick
Q. & A.
Ezra Klein on Why the Democrats Are Too Afraid of Replacing Biden
The President’s supporters have long treated his age as a superficial issue. The Times commentator explains why that position has become untenable.
By Isaac Chotiner
The Political Scene Podcast
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Why He’s Running
David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from.
Persons of Interest
Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate
In California’s crowded primary, can a longtime congresswoman sell her progressive ideals to the mainstream?
By Emily Witt
Persons of Interest
The Billionaire Hotel Heir—and Progressive Hero?
As the governor of Illinois, J. B. Pritzker has managed to unstick a dysfunctional state government while pushing through an unapologetically liberal agenda. Can his strategy work on a national level?
By Peter Slevin
The Political Scene
Ro Khanna’s Progressive Case for Saving Silicon Valley Bank
The ambitious California congressman has made a career of navigating the demands of Big Tech and the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Political Scene
Lori Lightfoot Makes Her Case to Chicago
The embattled mayor—often blamed for the city’s high crime and low morale—has presided over many crises, not all of her own making. Can she win a second term?
By Peter Slevin
Our Columnists
Bernie Sanders’s New Campaign: Taking On Big Pharma and Starbucks
As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy.
By John Cassidy
The New Yorker Interview
Ron Klain Looks Back on Biden’s First Two Years as President
“We have been declared dead, dead, dead many times,” the White House’s departing chief of staff says, of the Administration. “You just have to keep after it.”
By Evan Osnos
Comment
The New G.O.P. Takes the Country Hostage with the Debt Ceiling
Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin