David Remnick

5 days ago | businessandamerica.com | David Remnick

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5 days ago | newyorker.com | David Remnick

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic senators to claim victory in a state that voted for Donald Trump. It made other Democrats take note: since then, the Party has turned to her as someone who can bridge the red state–blue state divide.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | David Remnick

Reflecting on a grim milestone in the second Trump Administration. Plus:• Tariffs are coming for your whiskey• The successes and failures of the COVID school closuresThis week marks a hundred days since Donald Trump assumed the office of the Presidency, for the second time. At this point in his first term, in the pages of The New Yorker, we observed that Trump had “set fire to the integrity of his office.” We now know that was merely a rehearsal for what was to come.

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | David Remnick

Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. Eight years ago, in this space, a survey of the first hundred days of the initial Trump Presidency described just how “demoralizing” the Administration had already proved for any citizen concerned with the fate of liberal democracy.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | David Remnick

Eight years ago, in this space, a survey of the first hundred days of the initial Trump Presidency described just how “demoralizing” the Administration had already proved for any citizen concerned with the fate of liberal democracy. In both rhetoric and action, Donald Trump had undermined the rule of law, global security, civil rights, science, and the distinction between fact and its opposite. As we noted,Trump never concealed his motives or his character.