Presidents
News Desk
The Trump Mug Shot’s Art-Historical Lineage
Assessing the forty-fifth President’s Georgia photo op in the context of Da Vinci, Warhol, and a rogues’ gallery of accused criminals.
Our Columnists
Joe Biden’s 2024 Opening Argument: It’s Me or the Abyss
The President’s calling card—as a Trump-slayer, and an upholder of normality and sanity—remains his biggest advantage.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jon Meacham: Indictment Won’t Break the Trump Fever
The writer and historian talks with David Remnick about the stakes of a Trump reëlection. Plus, Brooke Shields on the sexualization of girls in Hollywood.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Is a Woman Ever Going to Win the White House?
Trump’s performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates.
The Political Scene
The Myth of the Iowa Caucuses Got Busted
The Democratic Party charts a new path for its Presidential candidates, avoiding the cornfields.
Daily Comment
How Should an Older President Think About a Second Term?
From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?
If you’re running for President, is age really “just a number”? Jane Mayer, Jill Lepore, and a gerontologist discuss how old is too old. Plus, Deepti Kapoor on her novel “Age of Vice.”
Q. & A.
The Rationale for Releasing Trump’s Taxes
Richard Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, explains what he hopes to accomplish by making public the former President’s tax returns.
Daily Comment
After the Trump Raid, Silence Is Not an Option for Merrick Garland
The F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago will either strengthen or erode public trust in the Justice Department and its leader.
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 11th
“Maybe one day we’ll have a President with no reproductive rights, just like us.”
Letter from Santiago
¿Puede el joven presidente de Chile reimaginar la izquierda latinoamericana?
Gabriel Boric promete un cambio social radical. En un país de extremos políticos enfrentados, tendrá que vender su visión no solo a sus oponentes sino también a sus aliados.
Letter from Santiago
Can Chile’s Young President Reimagine the Latin American Left?
Gabriel Boric promises sweeping social change. In a nation of duelling political extremes, he’ll need to sell his vision not just to his opponents but also to his allies.
Under Review
What Made Washington, D.C., the “Gayest and Most Antigay City in America”
Life in the nation’s capital during the age when outing became a political weapon.
London Postcard
The Greatest, Most Beautiful Play Ever, with the Possible Exception of Shakespeare
How the playwright Mike Bartlett melded Trumpisms with the language of the Bard for “The 47th.”
American Chronicles
Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son?
West Ford’s descendants want to prove his parentage—and save the freedmen’s village he founded.
Books
Harry Truman Helped Make Our World Order, for Better and for Worse
Institutions meant to secure peace, from NATO to the U.N., date back to Truman’s Presidency. So do the conflicts threatening that peace.
Letter from Honduras
Is the President of Honduras a Narco-Trafficker?
For decades, the U.S. has accommodated corruption in Central America. Now it is contending with the results.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Trump Presidency Is Still an Active Crime Scene
It’s hard to consign the Trump years to the history books when we remain in the middle of the crisis that it sparked.
Daily Comment
This July 4th, Can We De-Adapt from the Pandemic and Trump at the Same Time?
Although 2021 is only half over, it has brought about two major re-start moments—one in politics and the other in public health.