Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. A few weeks ago, Senator Cory Booker, of New Jersey, rose on the floor of the Senate and said that he had the “intention of disrupting … Read more
More than 150 House Democrats signed a letter sent to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 3, calling for the department to undo the freeze on millions of dollars allocated for family planning services. The letter, shared exclusively with TIME, comes after HHS confirmed this week … Read more
Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026. Source link
At the start of Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the funding of public media, a large photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess appearing on a PBS kids show was displayed behind committee chair Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) That image set the tone for the hearing in Washington in which Greene and other Republican … Read more
On a recent Saturday, a group of rank-and-file Democrats, standing in the blinding midday sun on a football field in Tucson, Arizona, spoke about their frustrations with their party. “They’re not stepping up,” a retired nurse named Mark Creal said. “No spine, no backbone,” he added. “They’re not doing their jobs.” He wore a button … Read more
David Leonhardt—who until recently ran the New York Times’ flagship newsletter, “The Morning”—has been trying to understand what Democrats need to do to win elections again. He recently explored this issue at length in the Times Magazine. The story focusses on Denmark, where a center-left party has managed to achieve political success at a time … Read more
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. There was a moment not long ago when we all got to know Tim Walz—a big, bluff, good-humored guy, born in Nebraska, who became a teacher, … Read more
Three weeks into office, President Trump has issued a slew of controversial executive orders, fired officials across government agencies, and started to dismantle significant chunks of the federal bureaucracy, which he derides as the “deep state.” A number of these actions—such as his executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship and his dismissal of government … Read more
