Daniel Castro on 08/18/2026 D Daniel Castro
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America
How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race.
Rachel Monroe on 08/17/2026 R Rachel Monroe
The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial
In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
Andrew Marantz on 08/17/2026 A Andrew Marantz
How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?
Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
Rachel Aviv on 08/17/2026 R Rachel Aviv
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
Eric Klinenberg on 08/17/2026 E Eric Klinenberg
The End of the European Summer
As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
Amy Davidson Sorkin on 08/16/2026 A Amy Davidson Sorkin
Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote
The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
Ruth Marcus on 08/15/2026 R Ruth Marcus
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense
After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
Ruby Cramer on 08/13/2026 R Ruby Cramer
Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?
The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
Stephania Taladrid on 08/13/2026 S Stephania Taladrid
Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?
A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
Isaac Chotiner on 08/04/2026 I Isaac Chotiner
What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?
A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
David Remnick on 08/03/2026 D David Remnick
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
Isaac Chotiner on 07/30/2026 I Isaac Chotiner
Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?
Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
David Remnick on 07/12/2026 D David Remnick
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
Jay Caspian Kang on 08/18/2026 J Jay Caspian Kang
How I Became a Subaru Socialist
By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
John Cassidy on 08/17/2026 J John Cassidy
A Trump Grift Too Far?
A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
Louisa Thomas on 08/16/2026 L Louisa Thomas
The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense
Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
Jay Caspian Kang on 08/11/2026 J Jay Caspian Kang
If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?
The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
David Remnick on 08/18/2026 D David Remnick
Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers
The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
Ishaan Tharoor on 08/13/2026 I Ishaan Tharoor
Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right
Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on 08/12/2026 B Benjamin Wallace-Wells
What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats
The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
on 08/12/2026
Minnesota Primary-Election Results
Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
on 08/12/2026
South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance
In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.
on 08/12/2026
Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins
The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
George Francis Lee on 08/12/2026 G George Francis Lee
What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North
Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.