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The first and only Vice-Presidential Debate of the 2024 campaign was mostly cordial, but J. D. Vance

Actors and comedians have usually played Donald Trump as larger than life, almost as a cartoon. In t

Recent polls suggest that American men and women are more divided over the 2024 election than they w

The Political Scene brings you a recent episode of Vanity Fair’s “Inside the Hive,” hosted by the sp

Since the war in Ukraine began, the historian Timothy Snyder has made several trips to Ukraine, and

Last week, New York City’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned after a federal corruption pr

In 2024, all eyes are on Pennsylvania: its nineteen electoral votes make it the largest swing state,

The Washington Roundtable is joined by George Conway, co-founder of the Lincoln Project and creator

Kamala Harris successfully prosecuted a case against Donald Trump on issues ranging from abortion to

Of the sixty-five lawsuits that Donald Trump’s team filed in the 2020 election, Democrats won sixty-

The Washington Roundtable revisits Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s past debate perfo

How has a phrase that just a decade ago had a narrow, technical definition come to essentially repre

In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a

The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry joins Tyler Foggatt to unpack Kamala Harris’s cultural blitzkr

The Washington Roundtable discusses the highs and lows of the Democratic National Convention and Vic

The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the sights, sounds, and br

Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains ext

The Washington Roundtable discusses the surge of enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz campaign among Democ

The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Elon Musk has once a

Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Party