Jill Lepore

4 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Jill Lepore

. Sept. 2025. 768p. ISBN 9781631496080. $39.99. HIST COPY ISBN Lepore (The American Beast) presents a comprehensive, inclusive history of the creation of the United States Constitution and its subsequent journey as an amendable document. Lepore mostly discusses the document’s revision, updating, and improvement, which keeps the narrative focused.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jill Lepore

“I had found my doomscrolling methadone.” In this week’s issue, Lepore turns to her stack of Penguin Little Black Classics, which has become her way to cope with the darkening state of the Republic. Plus:• The bureaucratic nightmares of being trans under TrumpOn the twentieth of January, the year of our Lord 2025, Donald Trump’s one hundred days began.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Jill Lepore

On X, a post recounting this exchange got 1.7 million views, as if catching Patel in this dumb lie constituted a meaningful win. The same day that Patel appeared before the Senate, a meeting of the Democratic National Committee began in Maryland, where officials squabbled over rules, were flattered by MSNBC hosts, and did not dare suggest that Biden ought not to have remained in the race for so long. The Senate subsequently confirmed Patel, on a 51–49 party-line vote.

2 months ago | straitstimes.com | Jill Lepore

US President Donald Trump has reportedly told Cabinet members that Mr Elon Musk may soon leave the administration. If and when he goes, what will he leave behind? Mr Musk has long presented himself to the world as a futurist.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jill Lepore

Technocrats argued that liberal democracy had failed. One Technocracy Incorporated pamphlet explained how the movement "does not subscribe to the basic tenet of the democratic ideal, namely that all men are created free and equal." In the modern world, only scientists and engineers have the intelligence and education to understand the industrial operations that lie at the heart of the economy.