The Inside Story of Christopher Steele’s Trump Dossier

Jane Mayer on the new book “Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump,” which investigates Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign.

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Conan, the Gender-Fluid Hero Dog

Masha Gessen writes about the military-service dog Conan and the conflicting reports about its gender after an appearance at the White House.

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Stop Saying That Impeachment Is Political

Adam Gopnik on how the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump do not represent politics but, rather, the principle of the rule of law against arbitrary power.

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Can Jeremy Corbyn Lose the British Election and Still Win?

Sam Knight writes about how Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party could be well placed to lead an anti-Brexit coalition if Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party fails to take control of Parliament in the December 12th election.

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Reintroducing The New Yorker’s Cryptic Crossword

Our delightfully devious cryptic is back. Here’s how to solve it.

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Beck Is Home

Amanda Petrusich on Beck, who, twenty-six years into his career, spends time visiting the Los Angeles of his youth and saying goodbye to the past.

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Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories

Isaac Chotiner interviews the former naval intelligence officer and MSBNC contributor Malcolm Nance about about the Trump Presidency and whether Nance believes Trump and members of his circle are foreign agents.

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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Indicted on Criminal Charges; His Defiance Puts Israel’s Democracy at Risk

Bernard Avishai on how the criminal indictments against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will affect the country’s politics, including the tensions between democracy and theocratic power.

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Lauren Underwood’s Illinois District Considers Impeachment

Peter Slevin on Lauren Underwood, one of a handful of Democrats in Congress who represent districts that voted for Trump, and her race for reëlection in the shadow of the impeachment inquiry into the President’s dealings with Ukraine.

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Joe Biden Stumbles Again on Race at the Fifth Democratic Debate

Eric Lach on the discussion of race at the fifth Democratic primary debate, including interesting exchanges among Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Cory Booker.

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How Democratic Candidates Win the African-American Vote

Isaac Chotiner interviews Frederick Harris, a professor of political science at Columbia University who has written extensively about African-American politics, about the role of black voters in the Democratic Party.

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The Pope and Catholic Radicals Come Together Against Nuclear Weapons

Paul Elie on civil disobedience and sentencing of the Catholic radicals known as the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven, and on Pope Francis’s anticipated denunciation of nuclear weapons.

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A Bad Week for Trump Got Worse with a New Impeachment Witness

John Cassidy writes about David Holmes, a Foreign Service officer who works at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, who testified that he overheard a phone call about Trump’s quid pro quo.

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What “Corruption” Means in the Impeachment Hearings

Masha Gessen writes about Marie Yovanovitch and the use of the word “corruption” in the Donald Trump impeachment hearings.

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In Trump's Jaded Capital, Marie Yovanovitch’s Uncynical Outrage in the Impeachment Hearings

Susan Glasser on the former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie (Masha) Yovanovitch’s testimony in the Trump impeachment hearings.

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After Six Decades, Turkey Is Now a U.S. Ally in Name Only

Robin Wright writes about the meeting at the White House between President Donald Trump and the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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What Jim Jordan Claims Trump Really Wanted from Ukraine’s President

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who recently joined the House Intelligence Committee and who questioned William Taylor and George Kent at the public hearing in the Trump impeachment inquiry on Wednesday.

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What Do Lula’s Release and Morales’s Ouster Signal for Latin America?

Jon Lee Anderson writes about the ouster of Bolivia’s long-serving President Evo Morales, the release from prison of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the possibility of a leftist resurgence at a time of deepening political polarization across Latin America.

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Nikki Haley Embodies What’s Wrong with the Republican Party

John Cassidy on the former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and other Republicans who have adopted a see-no-evil posture regarding the impeachment of Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump Makes an Awkward Pitch to Black Voters in Atlanta

Charles Bethea reports from the inaugural Black Voices for Trump rally, in downtown Atlanta, where President Donald Trump spoke on Friday to a racially diverse crowd of more than four hundred people.

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The Trump Administration’s Plot to End DACA Faces a Supreme Court Test

Jonathan Blitzer writes about how the Supreme Court will soon hear a suite of cases challenging the Administration’s decision to cancel DACA.

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The Homophobic Activist Who Won an Audience with Two Supreme Court Justices

Masha Gessen on Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, and his meeting with the Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh that came three weeks after the Supreme Court hear arguments in the cases R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc., v. E.E.O.C.; Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia; and Altitude Express, Inc., v. Zarda, which take up L.G.B.T. rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

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Is Trump Already Winning on Impeachment?

Susan B. Glasser on how the developments and revelations of the impeachment inquiry, involving President Donald Trump’s quid pro quo with Ukraine, are interpreted along partisan lines by Democrats and Republicans.

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The Terrorization of Katie Hill

Masha Gessen writes on the fear expressed by Katie Hill, the California congresswoman who resigned from the House last week, amid allegations of improper sexual relationships.

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Trump’s Own Donor Diplomat Blows Up His Impeachment Defense

John Cassidy writes about how the revised testimony of Gordon Sondland, the Seattle hotelier and Donald Trump donor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, sheds new light on Ukrainegate and challenges the President’s impeachment defense.

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The Times’ Nate Cohn on Elizabeth Warren’s Odds Against Donald Trump

Isaac Chotiner interviews the Times reporter Nate Cohn about new polling data in key swing states, which reflects that Elizabeth Warren’s lead may not be as decisive as that of Joe Biden or President Donald Trump.

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What an Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour Reveals

Anna Wiener writes about a tour of one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, in Sacramento, California, and the company’s labor practices and culture of anonymity.

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Elizabeth Warren Doubles Down on Medicare for All

John Cassidy writes about the Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s proposed financing plan for Medicare for All.

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A Yale Student’s Urgent Fight to Save His Mother from Deportation

Rachel Nolan interviews Cristian Padilla Romero, a Ph.D. student at Yale who has been fielding calls, running campaigns, and managing petitions on behalf of his mother, who is recovering from cancer and is at an ICE detention center in Atlanta.

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In His Dealings with Ukraine, Did Donald Trump Commit a Crime?

Jeffrey Toobin writes on the Hobbs Act and its possible relevance to Donald Trump’s conduct in the Ukraine affair and the impeachment inquiry.

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