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1 week ago | 
newyorker.com | David Remnick
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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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4 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | David Remnick
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4 weeks 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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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | David Remnick
8 hours agoAt a rally in London, Ontario, on Friday, the crowd booed as Mark Carney delivered his core campaign line about the existential threat Canada faces from its neighbour. "President Trump is trying to break us so that America could own us," the Liberal leader warned. "Never," supporters shouted back. …
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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 in-box. As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions, and the rule of law, the Democratic response has been—in the eyes of many observers—tepid and inadequate.
