Politics
Critics at Large
The Trap of the Trad Wife
A new crop of influencers showcasing regressive gender roles has soared in popularity in recent months. Is this life style a harmless personal choice or an existential threat to feminism?
The Political Scene Podcast
How Much Is “Being Cool” Actually Worth in Politics?
The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry dissects how Vice-President Harris became a “Kamalanomenon.”
The Lede
How Arizona’s Maricopa County Became the Battleground for Election Conspiracies
The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.
By Rachel Monroe
The Lede
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steps Aside for Donald Trump
As Kennedy’s 2024 election campaign collapses, he has embraced a new role as the former President’s latest ally.
By Clare Malone
The New Yorker Documentary
Friendship and Hard Work Amid Italy’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, in “Fratelli Carbonai”
A young man from Mali carves out a life for himself in an ancient trade in the Calabrian mountains, when the nation’s politics take a hard right turn.
The Lede
Elon Musk’s Surging Political Activism
The X C.E.O. has been using his platform to sound off on topics including Venezuela’s election, Trump’s campaign, and racial violence in the U.K.
By Jon Lee Anderson
Critics at Large
The Kamala Harris Vibe Shift
Her campaign has ushered in a rush of political energy, evidenced by a deluge of memes and pop-culture mashups. Can this new optimism last?
The New Yorker Radio Hour
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency
Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.
The Political Scene
The Republican National Convention and the Iconography of Triumph
In Milwaukee, with a candidate who had just cheated death, the resentment rhetoric of Trump’s 2016 campaign gave way to an atmosphere of festive certainty.
By Anthony Lane
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning
CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.
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.
Letter from the U.K.
Tory Tears on the U.K.’s Election Night
Viewed from across the pond, or even from across the Channel, the Labour Party’s wipeout win looks like an anomaly—a liberal bulwark against a wave of right-wing populism.
By Anna Russell
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.
Dispatch
My Father’s Fate, and India’s
As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.
By Kapil Komireddi
Letter from Biden’s Washington
There Is Literally Nothing Trump Can Say That Will Stop Republicans from Voting for Him
On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.
By Susan B. Glasser
Daily Comment
What’s Holding Up Trump’s Florida Case?
Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
The Political Scene
The Workingman and the Company Store
Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics?
By Dan Kaufman
Daily Comment
How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans
The congresswoman is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy?
By David D. Kirkpatrick
The Political Scene Podcast
Will an 1864 Abortion Law Doom Trump in Arizona?
Understanding the current politics around abortion, Arizona’s Civil War-era ban, and how the issue of reproductive health care will affect both parties’ chances in November.
The Political Scene Podcast
After the World Central Kitchen Attack, How Far Will Biden Shift on Israel?
“There is a degree to which Biden has looked around and realized,” Evan Osnos says, “that he had to catch up to where the country was.”