What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?

Sam Knight writes about Britain’s departure from the European Union and muses about what Brexit Britain will look like.

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Connie Schultz on the Politics of the Primaries

Isaac Chotiner speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz about journalism in the Trump era, the Democratic primary, and her husband, Senator Sherrod Brown.

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Watching Amy Klobuchar’s Impassioned Centrism in Iowa

Sarah Larson writes on the Democratic Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar’s campaign stops in Waterloo, Des Moines, and Ames, before the Iowa caucuses.

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A New Backlash to Gun Control Begins in Virginia

Emily Witt writes about a gun-rights rally that took place in Richmond, Virginia, on January 20th, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

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What Happens When the News Is Gone?

Charles Bethea writes on Jones County, North Carolina, where, as in many other places around the country, local journalism has almost entirely dried up.

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Adam Schiff and His Colleagues Did Their Duty in the Trump Impeachment Trial

The Senate Republicans may well vote to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, John Cassidy writes, but they will not be able to erase the record that Adam Schiff and his House colleagues laid down over three days of arguments.

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The Trump Impeachment and the Closing of the Senatorial Mind

Susan Glasser reports on the fourth day of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

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Joe Biden’s Battle with Bernie Sanders for Working-Class Voters

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes on Joe Biden’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in Iowa, and on his and Bernie Sanders’s appeals to working-class voters.

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Adam Schiff’s Moment at the Senate Impeachment Trial

Susan Glasser writes about Day 2 of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, during which senators were spotted drinking glasses of milk.

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“Ass-Backwards” and (So Far) Witness-Free, Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial Begins

Susan B. Glasser reports from Day One of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, as Adam Schiff leads the case against the President.

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How Donald Trump’s Unlikely Legal Team Will Try to Defend Him

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate, and how the President’s defenders, including Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz, will aim to defend him.

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The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens

Molly Crabapple writes about Exarchia, an anarchist stronghold neighborhood in Athens, Greece, that is under threat, due to the right-wing government, the police, and gentrification.

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On the Trail: What Has This Long Primary Accomplished?

Eric Lach writes from Iowa on the accomplishments of the Democratic Party’s long primary and how the field has dramatically narrowed to four front-runners: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.

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The Firefighter Whose Denunciation of Australia’s Prime Minister Made Him a Folk Hero

Amanda Schaffer talks to Paul Parker, an Australian firefighter who became a sort of folk hero after a video of him denouncing Prime Minister Scott Morrison went viral.

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Spoiler Alert: There Will Be No Impartial Justice in Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial

Susan B. Glasser on the first day of Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

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The Uneasy Truce of Trump’s Trade Deal with China

John Cassidy writes about the trade agreement that was signed on January 15th between the United States and China, and to what extent it will change the trade relationship between the two countries.

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At the Democratic Debate, a State of Stasis

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the first Democratic Presidential debate of 2020, less than three weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, and the sense of stasis that emerged from it.

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The Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Start Talking About the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the relative lack of discussion about the Supreme Court and federal judicial appointments among the Democratic candidates for President.

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Ronan Farrow on What the Harvey Weinstein Trial Could Mean for the #MeToo Movement

David Remnick talks with Ronan Farrow about what to expect from Harvey Weinstein’s rape-and-sexual-assault trial in New York City, and from similar charges in Los Angeles.

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How a Journalist in Kyiv Responded to the Downing of a Ukrainian Passenger Plane

Masha Gessen writes about the downing of a Ukraine Airlines Boeing 737 by Iran, and a journalist who is reporting on it.

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Can Ranked-Choice Voting Save American Democracy?

Isaac Chotiner interviews the political scientist Lee Drutman about whether one party is to blame for the current crisis, why ideologically incoherent voting can benefit democracy, and the place of right-wing conservatism in a multiparty system.

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The Cost of Fleeing Climate Change

Carolyn Kormann writes about an illegal adoption racket in northwest Arkansas that offered citizens of the Marshall Islands a way off of the islands, which are increasingly threatened by climate change, and into the U.S.

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One Speech Can’t Clean Up Trump’s Iran Mess

John Cassidy writes about the speech given by President Donald Trump on the missile attack by Iran on American troops in Iraq.

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What Does John Bolton Want?

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national-security adviser, and his announcement that he would be willing, if subpoenaed, to testify before Congress, as part of the impeachment trial.

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“Jojo Rabbit” Captures the Horror and Absurdity of Our Trumpian Moment

Masha Gessen writes about Taika Waititi’s film “Jojo Rabbit,” about a German boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, which can be read as a portrayal of Donald Trump supporters and parallels our current moment.

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Tabula Rasa: Volume One, by John McPhee

Personal History by John McPhee: A project meant not to end. 

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Representative Elissa Slotkin on Trump’s Iran Policy and the Killing of Qassem Suleimani

Isaac Chotiner interviews Representative Elissa Slotkin, the Domocrat from Michigan who is a former C.I.A. analyst and Defense Department official, about foreign policy, Donald Trump, her time serving in Iraq, and U.S. relations with Iran after the assassination of Qassem Suleimani.

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The Dangers Posed by the Killing of Qassem Suleimani

Dexter Filkins on the killing of the Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani by an American air strike and the implications his death is likely to have for Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.

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How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right

Isaac Chotiner talks with David Nirenberg, the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, about why prejudice against Jews arises in so many eras and contexts, and the unhelpfulness of thinking about anti-Semitism as a manifestation of politics.

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The Art of Dying

Personal History by Peter Schjeldahl: I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that?

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Our Year of Trumpschmerz

Susan B. Glasser writes about the suffering induced by constant updates about President Donald Trump, and finds a German compound word to describe it.

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