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Letter from the U.K.
Watching an American Election from Across the Pond
Louisa Compton is overseeing coverage for Channel 4, trying to explain a strange election cycle to a bewildered Britain.
By Anna Russell
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Reporting & Essays
The Weekend Essay
The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris
The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured.
By John Cassidy
The Political Scene
The Tucker Carlson Road Show
After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism might look like. This fall, he took his act on tour.
By Andrew Marantz
Profiles
The Improbable Rise of J. D. Vance
“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Political Scene
Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America. Why Has No One Noticed?
The full effects of the President’s economic policies won’t be felt for years. That might be too late for Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
By Nicholas Lemann
Commentary
The Lede
Is the Labor Movement Screwed No Matter Who Wins the Election?
A series of legal challenges could radically disempower the National Labor Relations Board—and other administrative agencies—regardless of who controls Congress or the White House.
By E. Tammy Kim
The Lede
The Fight Over Truth in a Blue-Collar Pennsylvania County
Lackawanna County was once a Democratic stronghold. In 2024, it is a hotly contested battleground, where the stakes go far beyond politics.
By Clare Malone
The Lede
Kamala Harris Makes Her Closing Argument at the Ellipse
At a rally whose location evoked January 6th, Harris sounded the alarm about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies but refused to linger in the national shame spiral that has formed around him.
By Katy Waldman
Comment
Standing Up to Trump
Jeff Bezos endorsed a Trump-era slogan—“Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate?
By David Remnick
Conversations
Q. & A.
Marty Baron on the Washington Post’s “Spineless” Endorsement Decision
The former executive editor discusses his relationship with the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, who was reportedly behind the last-minute call to kill an editorial supporting Kamala Harris.
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
Why No Real Antiwar Movement Has Developed in Israel
Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
What the Closeness of This Election Suggests About the Future of American Politics
Nate Cohn unpacks the theories of how the Black and Hispanic electorates are changing.
By Isaac Chotiner
From Our Columnists
The Sporting Scene
The United Charms of Baseball
The Dodgers World Series victory had it all: canny pitching, late-game heroics, and a reminder that the sport sets a civic example.
By Nicholas Dawidoff
The Sporting Scene
The Influence of Sedona Prince
The basketball player has been central to the fight to end amateurism and improve gender equity in the N.C.A.A., and her story underscores the way that college sports are changing.
By Louisa Thomas
Fault Lines
The Perils of the Good-Enough Candidate
Despite Kamala Harris’s strong start, the race is now a tossup. Whatever happens, a sober reckoning with the limitations of her campaign is essential for Democrats going forward.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Garbage Time at the 2024 Finish Line
Nine years in, Trump is in reach of another term as the technocrats struggle to contain him.
By Susan B. Glasser
More News
The Political Scene
Trump’s Final Days on the Campaign Trail
Under assault from all sides, in the last weeks of his campaign, the former President speaks often of enemies from within, including those trying to take his life.
By Antonia Hitchens
The Political Scene
How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board
Since the 2020 race, the state has been at the center of a national movement to contest elections. Now a group of unelected officials is sowing suspicions about the 2024 results.
By Jonathan Blitzer and Charles Bethea
American Chronicles
The Election Season That Fell Out of a Coconut Tree
Twenty-five stunning moments of the 2024 Presidential campaign, as told by the people who witnessed them up close.
By The New Yorker
The Political Scene
Safeguarding the Pennsylvania Election
For months, state officials have prepared to manage the threat of far-right conspiracists who may try to “stop the steal.”
By Eliza Griswold
Letter from the Southwest
The Conservative Strategy to Ban Abortion Nationwide
A local referendum in Texas is part of a long-term effort to block abortions through the courts.
By Rachel Monroe
The Lede
Will Laken Riley’s Murder Tip Georgia?
Native-born American women are almost never killed by illegal migrants. So why has Riley become a morbid icon of Trump’s campaign?
By David D. Kirkpatrick
The Lede
The Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden
The rally featured Hulk Hogan, Rudy Giuliani, “Y.M.C.A.,” and a thrum of American nativism.
By Andrew Marantz
The Lede
The Obamas Campaign for Kamala Harris
In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.
By Emily Witt