Facing the Death Penalty
The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and…
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admin Donald Trump After the Midterms
If the coming election does result in a blue wave, Trump will be faced with the fact of his diminishment.…
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
Jonathan Blitzer writes that arrests have reached a record high—more than fifty thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations at…
The President vs. the Press
Jelani Cobb on how consistent the debacle of Donald Trump’s denying access to CNN, Politico, and MS NOW is with…
Our A.I. Problem
The fears expressed by A.I. executives are, mostly, genuine, Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes. Yet it’s easy to see why they suffer…
How to Protect Democracy
Joshua Yaffa writes about Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right party that recently came close to governing a state in Germany,…
The America That 9/11 Made
Jill Lepore reflects on the far-reaching repercussions of 9/11 and considers two new books, “After Ground Zero: Everyday Americans and…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Reckoning
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Meta settlement, which will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram, and how it reflects the…
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,…
The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Iran war, the economy, Donald Trump’s dealings with Vladimir Putin, and Vivek Ramaswamy’s extremely offensive ad.