Isaac Chotiner
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan; formerly a staff writer at Slate and senior editor at The New Republic.
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1 week ago |
newyorker.com | Isaac Chotiner
I recently spoke by phone with the economist Yasheng Huang, an expert on China who teaches at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed the ways in which tariffs provide an opportunity for Xi to reform his country’s economy, how the tariff war is likely to play out, and why disappointing economic growth figures have not caused any weakening of the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.
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1 week ago |
newyorker.com | Isaac Chotiner
In March, the Trump Administration deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland with his family, to a notorious prison in El Salvador. After outrage grew over Abrego Garcia’s deportation, the Administration acknowledged that it was the result of an “administrative error.” A district court judge, Paula Xinis, ordered the government to “effectutate” Abrego Garcia’s return.
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Isaac Chotiner
Jan-Werner Müller is a German historian and philosopher who has written a number of studies of right-wing populism. Müller’s central argument has been that populism should primarily be defined as a movement in which a leader claims to represent a silenced or forgotten—and almost always exclusionary—majority. It is a negative take on populism, which somewhat definitionally situates it as an ideology of bigoted authoritarianism.
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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Isaac Chotiner
On Monday, a criminal court in France found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement, and barred her from running for the French Presidency in 2027. Le Pen, the far-right leader of the National Rally, the political party formerly known as the National Front, had been leading first-round Presidential election polls. The National Rally is now likely to run Jordan Bardella, a twenty-nine-year-old member of the European Parliament who, since 2022, has served as the Party’s president.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Isaac Chotiner
1 hour agoJudges who convicted Marine Le Pen on embezzlement charges and banned the far-right politician from public office for five years have faced death threats since the sentencing earlier this week. French police have launched a new investigation into the threats as France reels from the fallout of the …
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Wow what amazing photojournalism. Where would we be as a nation without Doug Mills taking endless pics of Trump rallies (and tagging Trump when he posts them)?
Supporters are reflected in the bullet-proof glass as @realDonaldTrump makes remarks during a campaign rally in Lititz, PA. https://t.co/mIvIEhWdmX
This is very poor
"It all inures to our benefit" — fascinating @ShelbyTalcott conversation with Trump poltiical director @JamesBlairUSA that touches on WaPo mess https://t.co/QGMZx2fEy0
RT @NewYorker: J. D. Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump even more so. Now, both impr…
