R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone
The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone’s Profile, What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want? sheds light on Kennedy’s position in this Presidential race—and it also solves a ten-year-old myste...
13 Elo 202413min
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives for so long, and so effectively, that one forgets she was also the f...
8 Elo 202437min
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 2)
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, and ever since Israelis have settled on more and more of this contested land. Violence by armed sett...
6 Elo 202424min
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 1)
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, and ever since Israelis have settled on more and more of this contested land. Violence by armed sett...
2 Elo 202426min
Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics
One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack Ob...
29 Heinä 202423min
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to credential themselves,” Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Democratic politics who served in the Clinton ...
26 Heinä 202432min
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard
Catalina Ituralde is the protagonist of the novel that bears her name, “Catalina.” In the summer before her senior year of college, she’s working as an intern at a prestigious literary magazine, and c...
23 Heinä 202417min
The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning
The movement to persuade President Biden—long after the primaries—to drop out of the Presidential race is unprecedented. So is the candidacy of a convicted felon. But this election season went from st...
19 Heinä 202433min
