Contributors
Amy Davidson Sorkin
Amy Davidson Sorkin joined The New Yorker in 1995 and has been a staff writer since 2014. As a senior editor for many years, she focussed on national security, international reporting, and features. She helped to reconceive Newyorker.com and served as the site’s executive editor. She is a regular Comment contributor for the magazine.
All Work
- 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.
February 5, 2023
- Comment
The Biden-Documents Mess
House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.
January 22, 2023
- Daily Comment
Is Prince Harry’s “Spare” a Political Manifesto?
His own feelings about the value of the monarchy, he writes, are “complicated.”
January 18, 2023
- Comment
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
December 23, 2022
- Daily Comment
The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper
In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.
December 15, 2022
- Comment
After the January 6th Committee
It will cease to exist, as a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House. Can the committee’s work move forward without the committee itself?
December 4, 2022
- Daily Comment
The Toughness of Nancy Pelosi
She helped save Obamacare and other transformative legislation, and made it clear when the nonsense had to stop.
November 18, 2022
- Comment
The G.O.P. Is Standing by Trumpists Ahead of the Senate Midterms
One shouldn’t expect an overflowing of dignity in any of the half-dozen states where Senate seats are being seriously contested.
October 16, 2022
- Daily Comment
The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act
Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan.
October 5, 2022
- A Critic at Large
Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
October 3, 2022
