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6 days ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Whether or not Mark Twain ever really said that line, it fits and resonates loudly as President Trump shuttles between the Oval Office and the Situation Room, weighing if he should dispatch bombers on yet another American sortie to the Middle East. First, the necessary caveats. Since seizing power, in 1979, Iran’s theocracy has menaced its more than ninety million citizens and the wider region.
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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | David Remnick
Interviewed by David Remnick
Fifty years ago, at a harp recital in Gloucestershire, a retired British military officer with a clipped aristo accent came across a brown-skinned teenager. “I say, old chap, do you speak English?” the officer said.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | David Remnick
16 hours agoYou’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Israel has launched a war of choice. Robin Wright on what the attack against Iran means; Ruth Margalit on what might come …
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4 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | David Remnick
J.T.: There are a couple of other things to unpack with that. One is that the issues that animated Joe Biden the most in his Presidency were national-security issues—NATO, the Middle East, Ukraine-Russia. And so I don’t doubt that he was most engaged [with Blinken], and also that those meetings, when they scheduled them, were in peak-performance time—noon, one o’clock. But the other thing that Blinken says—Well, hang on, Jake.
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1 month 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. Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, of CNN, launched the end of Biden’s bid for a second term. The President struggled to make points, complete sentences, and remember facts; he spoke in a raspy whisper.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | David Remnick
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
