Year-End Special: Don’t Despair

Year-End Special: Don’t Despair

The year 2021 has seemed like a cavalcade of disasters, from the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th through the resurgence of COVID-19. Calamities are catnip for the media, but the year has shown some signs of promise. This week, four New Yorker writers discuss the political stories that give them hope. Jane Mayer explores the Biden Administration’s accomplishments, and why they might be undervalued. John Cassidy makes a case for a strong economy in 2022. Bill McKibben explains how the excitement over increasingly inexpensive renewable energy crosses party lines. And Evan Osnos, examining how pessimism can skew political reporting, offers a way for combating toxic political polarization.

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The Biden Presidency, Year One

The Biden Presidency, Year One

President Biden took the oath of office in a moment of deep crisis—the pandemic in full swing and just weeks after an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election by violence. Merely a return to nor...

17 Tammi 202230min

Can Biden Revive Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Vision of Voting Rights?

Can Biden Revive Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Vision of Voting Rights?

Since the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, nineteen states have passed laws that restrict access to voting. Two bills currently before Congress could overturn some of those laws, but ne...

14 Tammi 202222min

A New Civil War in America?

A New Civil War in America?

When rioters, encouraged by the President, stormed the Capitol, one year ago, to overturn the results of the election, the idea that such a thing could play out in America was stunning. But the attack...

10 Tammi 202225min

The Great Resignation and the New Office Politics

The Great Resignation and the New Office Politics

This week, the U.S. Labor Department reported that 4.5 million people left their jobs in November—the most since the government began collecting data, two decades ago. A major reason is the COVID-19 p...

6 Tammi 202226min

Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration

Amanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration

One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President. Gorman was just twenty-two years old, and it was just two weeks after Trump supporters had assaulte...

3 Tammi 202224min

When Snow Came to San Juan

When Snow Came to San Juan

For several years in the early nineteen-fifties, Puerto Rico received snow, right around Christmas. Children in San Juan rode a sled and had a giant snowball fight in the tropical weather. It wasn’t a...

20 Joulu 202126min

Will the Mark Meadows Revelations Change the January 6th Investigation?

Will the Mark Meadows Revelations Change the January 6th Investigation?

On January 6th, as rioters attacked the United States Capitol, many people attempted to communicate with the President through his Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Some of those messages are among the th...

16 Joulu 202121min

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