Jared Kushner
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump’s Lawyers Stun Senate by Claiming Jared Made Him Do It
An attorney said that the ex-President spoke to an angry mob on January 6th only after Kushner assured him, “What could possibly go wrong?”
Legal Eagles
The Motley Crew Leading Trump’s Election Challenges
Jared Kushner wanted a “James Baker-like” figure, but he ended up with a ragtag bunch of lawyers led by a raving Rudolph Giuliani, who made his first appearance in federal court in this century.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Jared Kushner Asks Dad to Bribe His Way Into Electoral College
Jared Kushner said that his admission to the Electoral College should be “a lock,” arguing, “How can they turn down the guy who ended the pandemic?”
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump to Retaliate Against Russia by Sending Jared Kushner to Advise Kremlin on Coronavirus Response
“To those who thought this President was not taking the Russians’ actions seriously, this response should speak for itself,” the White House press secretary said.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Refuses to Ramp Up Testing Because of His Hatred of Ramps
White House staffers have been scrambling in recent days to find synonyms.
Daily Comment
Camus and the Political Tests of a Pandemic
In this political season of our own, it can be uncanny to encounter Camus’s seven-decade-old account of a dissembling leader, whose advisers cannot bear even to speak aloud the name of the disease that is rampaging through their city.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Unskilled American Somehow Still Employed
The man’s employment has persisted even after his failure at a series of other jobs during the past three years.
Letter from Trump’s Washington
How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?
A Silicon Valley C.E.O., Jared Kushner, and the race to get P.P.E. for America’s hospitals.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
National Incompetence Stockpiles at Full Capacity
“The sheer tonnage of failure and impotence that is being dumped into the stockpiles on a daily basis is straining their ability to contain it,” the Government Accountability Office said.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Dr. Fauci Says He Has No Idea Who Locked Jared Kushner in Bathroom
The esteemed virologist said that it was most likely “a regrettable accident.”
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Medical Experts Jared Kushner Might Consult About COVID-19
“American Psycho”—some great ideas about public health in that book.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: All the President’s Men
From The New Yorker’s archive, illuminating portraits of Trump’s inner circle.
News Desk
Who Is Jared Kushner?
The Kushner family history—from lying on immigration forms to becoming major Democratic donors—often seems at odds with the initiatives Jared supports in his father-in-law’s Administration.
Daily Comment
Why Jared Kushner’s Bahrain Conference Won’t Do Much for the Palestinian Economy
The orthodoxy that makes the Kushner workshop so one-sided, and vain, is not religious but Republican: the default idea that governments only get in the way of private sectors.
News Desk
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Empty Promise of Immigration Reform
Despite the failure of a Kushner proposal to gain traction with members of the President’s own party, Trump announced that it was the basis of his new immigration policy.
News Desk
How the Charge Against Natalia Veselnitskaya Could Lead Back to the Trump Campaign
Federal prosecutors in New York charged the Russian lawyer, who was present at a meeting at Trump Tower in June, 2016, with obstruction of justice in a case involving a longtime client of hers.
Cover Story
Harry Bliss’s “Out in the Cold”
News Desk
The Improbable Success of a Criminal-Justice-Reform Bill Under Trump
The buy-in from the right is the culmination of years of effort from libertarian-leaning conservatives and evangelicals who have worked to convince others that the prison system is too costly, punitive, and government-empowering.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: The Khashoggi Affair
From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces that contextualize the uniquely disquieting case of Jamal Khashoggi.
Our Columnists
What Jared Kushner Revealed in His Interview with Van Jones
Kushner showed himself to be a person who clearly doesn’t consider his thin résumé to be a handicap in tackling some of the world’s thorniest issues.