David D. Kirkpatrick

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | David D. Kirkpatrick

In today’s newsletter: the Trump Administration is threatening to push the Senate from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. The Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Reagan-Bush style Republican, insists he’ll push back. Plus:• Why Elon Musk is trying to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat• Leslie Bibb on “The White Lotus” and life with Sam RockwellI started reporting a Profile of the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, based on a simple premise.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | David D. Kirkpatrick

On January 8th, in an ornate hall of the United States Capitol, five Republican senators stood behind President-elect Donald Trump as he talked to the Capitol Hill press. Four listened impassively, but John Thune could hardly stand still. As Trump began describing a “lovefest” in Greenland over his plans to annex it, Thune turned away, as though distracted by oncoming footsteps.

Dec 18, 2024 | newyorker.com | David D. Kirkpatrick

The bleak odds of escaping authoritarianism or civil war are not limited to the Arab world. The happy “End of History” era, the years after the Cold War when the forward march of liberal democracy once seemed unstoppable, finished roughly around the time of the American invasion of Iraq, in 2003. Since then, the number of democracies across the world—with durable governing institutions, peaceful rotations of power, and some semblance of law—has roughly flatlined.

Oct 29, 2024 | newyorker.com | David D. Kirkpatrick

At a rally in Duluth, Georgia, during the final days of the Presidential race, Donald Trump screened a video, set to the pulsing minor-key soundtrack to a horror movie, depicting what he portrayed as the nightmare of the Biden-Harris Administration.

Oct 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zac Jackson |Jason Lloyd |David D. Kirkpatrick |Ian Bassin

You remember the television call. That's the era we live in. When a transcendent moment happens in sports - such as the first grand slam ever to end a World Series game, courtesy of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman on Friday - the call that goes viral is inevitably the one made by broadcasters from the television outlet and not those who called the game on audio/radio.