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Our Columnists
What’s at Stake in the Fight Over Reopening Schools
From housing to health care, low-income people and others ravaged by debt and inequality are beginning to demand a better life subsidized by public money.
Annals of Gastronomy
The Latinx Brewers Whose Trump-Branded Beer Became a Drink of the Resistance
If the election goes the way they hope, the owners of 5 Rabbit Cervecería will let their Chinga tu Pelo brew go out with the Administration.
Our Columnists
How Much Longer Will Donald Trump Be Our Con-Artist-in-Chief?
The story of the ill-starred Trump International Hotel & Tower, in Chicago, is another reminder that Trump may well be the most successful con artist in American history.
Culture Desk
Aaron Sorkin Puts America on Trial
A review of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia.”
U.S. Journal
Running a Virtual School on Chicago’s West Side
A principal and her teachers are learning how to support students during the hardest year of many of their lives.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Will This Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment?
The longtime political reporter Evan Osnos sat down—in person, masked, and socially distant—with the Democratic nominee.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Will Ahmaud Arbery Get Justice?
We try to explain why prosecutors let a young man’s killers walk free. Plus, a conversation with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross about their score for “Watchmen.”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
A Former White Nationalist Goes on the Record, and a Classic Villain Gets an Origin Story
How does a young woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? Plus, a new Netflix show imagines the backstory of the classic antihero Nurse Ratched.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Rikers Debate Project, and Isabel Wilkerson
Inmates and former inmates debate the most critical topics of the day, parliamentary style. Plus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explains America’s racial caste system.
The Political Scene Podcast
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Federal Forces in Chicago
President Trump is deploying two hundred federal agents to “drive down violent crime” in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot gives David Remnick her take on the situation.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Power of Police Unions
William Finnegan on what the repeal of an arcane law reveals about the conflict among police, protesters, and politicians. Plus, an interview with the mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot.
The Political Scene Podcast
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
Chance is one of the biggest stars in hip-hop, and one of the most political musicians working today. He talks with David Remnick about the fight for racial justice in Chicago.
The New Yorker Interview
Chance the Rapper Is Still Figuring Things Out
The artist on the two-party system, Black liberation theology, and learning from his mistakes.
Cultural Comment
Remember Small, Sweaty Music Venues?
The coronavirus has hit the underground music scene hard.
News Desk
Chicago Plans for a Slow Recovery from the Coronavirus
The city’s opening, when it comes, will be gradual, and answers won’t come quickly, especially if the gaps in testing remain unfilled.
Dispatch
Illinois Confronts a Chaotic White House Approach to the Coronavirus
In the face of a coming COVID-19 peak, federal support in the fight against the pandemic has been minimal, unpredictable, and deeply frustrating to Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’s governor.
Campaign Chronicles
A Narrow Win for Progressives in the Chicago Suburbs
Supporters of Marie Newman, who defeated a longtime incumbent in the Democratic congressional primary, aren’t shying away from intra-Party competition.
Dispatch
How a Pair of Investigative Reporters Are Trying to Save the Chicago Tribune
At its peak, the paper employed just under seven hundred reporters and editors; today it has around two hundred and fifty.
Dispatch
Chicago’s Striking Teachers Test a Progressive New Mayor
The central sticking point between educators and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has not been salaries but the teachers’ demands for expanded support services and enforceable limits on class size.
Cultural Comment
The Chicago Band Whitney and the Fear of Being “Too Indie”
The bandmates Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek discuss how to make music that transcends the Spotify playlists that dictate how people discover them.