When the acting Attorney General Sally Yates wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she was promptly sacked—“before it was fashionable to be fired by Donald Trump,” Jeffrey Toobin says. Yates, who served in the Justice Department during the Bush and Obama Administrations, talks with Toobin about the impact of Trump on her career and on American politics. The singer Kelela reinvents R. & B. with influences from jazz, trip-hop, and electronica. And we look at the midterm congressional campaigns of far-right candidates who no longer bother to “dog-whistle” their white-supremacist views.
In the Midterms, White Supremacy Is Running for Office
Candidates who once cloaked their views on white nationalism, like the Iowa congressman Steve King, are now tweeting about them openly and regularly.
Sally Yates on Her Ten Days in the Trump Administration
When the acting Attorney General wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she was fired by Trump—“before it was fashionable,” Jeffrey Toobin says.
Kelela Reinvents R. & B.
Onstage at the 2018 New Yorker Festival, Kelela talks about how Napster helped her find her voice as a singer, and then she performs live with a d.j.
