Politics

Viewed from across the pond, or even from across the Channel, the Labour Party’s wipeout win looks like an anomaly—a liberal bulwark against a wave of right-wing populism.

David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.

As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.

On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.

Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.

Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics?

The congresswoman is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy?

Understanding the current politics around abortion, Arizona’s Civil War-era ban, and how the issue of reproductive health care will affect both parties’ chances in November.

“There is a degree to which Biden has looked around and realized,” Evan Osnos says, “that he had to catch up to where the country was.”

Hosting tens of thousands of new arrivals has stoked Black residents’ sense of neglect.

One of the most influential Silicon Valley reporters chronicles the rise of an industry, and moguls like Elon Musk, in “Burn Book.”

In his bid for the Senate, the third-term congressman had to overcome a challenge from the state’s First Lady—and a Democratic Party system that favors the powers that be.

The former President and his spokesman, Steven Cheung, like to hurl insults at their political rivals, but behind the scenes the campaign has maintained a cozy relationship with much of the mainstream press.

The works of fiction and nonfiction that offer clarity on the Trump-Biden rematch, U.S. foreign policy, and even Vladimir Putin.

A big new book dispels stereotypes in an effort to get beyond Latino 101.

“Donald Trump’s vision, or lack of vision, of what the United States can be in the world is a risk of a kind we really haven’t had in any of our lifetimes,” Evan Osnos says.

Vinson Cunningham discusses his début novel, “Great Expectations,” a bildungsroman that captures a particular moment in American life—and that offers some clues about where the genre is heading.

“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody. What he was looking to do was to tell his own side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight,’ ” Susan B. Glasser says.

Primary contests have so far done little to change the expected Trump-Biden rematch in November, but they have revealed one troubling sign: voter apathy.

The New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen reflects on Alexei Navalny’s death and what it says about Putin’s strength.