Politicians
Letter from Israel
The Arab-Israeli Power Broker in the Knesset
Is Mansour Abbas changing the system or selling out the Palestinian cause?
By Ruth Margalit
Q. & A.
Andrew Yang’s Third-Party Aspirations
The entrepreneur turned politician makes the case for his new project, the Forward Party.
By Isaac Chotiner
Annals of Democracy
Lyubov Sobol’s Hope for Russia
With Alexey Navalny in prison, one of his closest aides is carrying on the lonely work of the opposition.
By Masha Gessen
Self-Narration Dept.
A Cop Campaigning Against the N.Y.P.D.
Edwin Raymond, a police lieutenant and a whistle-blower who alleged racial discrimination and the use of quotas in the force, stumps in Brooklyn for a City Council post.
By Andrew Marantz
Georgia Postcard
A Would-Be Opponent Crashes a Marjorie Taylor Greene Rally
Marcus Flowers, a Black Army veteran who has raised more than a million dollars in his bid to unseat the QAnon-friendly congresswoman in 2022, gets kicked out of Greene and Matt Gaetz’s “America First” tour stop in Georgia.
By Charles Bethea
A Reporter at Large
The Murder Scandalizing Brazil’s Evangelical Church
Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.
By Jon Lee Anderson
Shouts & Murmurs
I’m a Billionaire Politician, but Here’s Why You, a Regular Person, Have to Save the World
Purchase your world-saving equipment from Amazon. Amazon cares about bringing people together, as long as those people aren’t coming together to form a union.
By Meghana Indurti and Rima Parikh
Letter from Glasgow
Nicola Sturgeon’s Quest for Scottish Independence
The country’s leader asks voters which kind of society they prefer to live in: Brexit Britain or a social-democratic Scotland.
By Sam Knight
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Projects by Former and Present Politicians
In the spirit of Barack Obama’s podcast with Bruce Springsteen, behold “Macarons with Emmanuel Macron,” “Kiss & Tell with Henry Kissinger,” and more.
By Broti Gupta and Sarah Hagi
Shouts & Murmurs
You Praised Hitler in a Speech? How to Avoid Those “Oops” Moments
Tips for the congresswoman Mary Miller and anyone who might drop an accidental “Sieg heil!” on the lecture circuit.
By Nathan Heller
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Giuliani Says He Cannot Pay $1.3 Billion in Damages Because He Does Not Know Any Real Billionaires
Not only does he not know any actual billionaires, but the people he does know are “just the opposite,” Giuliani said.
By Andy Borowitz
Shouts & Murmurs
The Best Days of a Boat Owner’s Life
The day they sell themselves on the notion that anyone who doesn’t own ten boats simply hasn’t worked hard enough to earn them.
By Reuven Perlman
Personal History
How a Long Island County Fought COVID-19
A county executive looks back on the first wave.
By Laura Curran
Annals of Justice
How to Spot a Military Impostor
The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame.
By Rachel Monroe
The Front Row
What to Stream: James Cagney Is a Corrupt Demagogue in “A Lion Is in the Streets”
The movie shows how easily a fast-talking rogue with a ravenous ego can win the hearts of the downtrodden while making common cause with their oppressors.
By Richard Brody
The Political Scene
Pete Buttigieg’s High Hopes
The Presidential candidate wants to win over disaffected Republicans. But can he unite Democrats?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Counterparts Dept.
In Ukraine, a TV President to Rival Trump
Before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected President, he played the part in “Servant of the People,” a genre-bending series that blends Ryan Murphy wackiness with Sorkinian uplift (minus the hubris).
By Emily Nussbaum
Torch Dept.
Call Him Mr. Loaf
How the SpongeBob-loving star of “Bat Out of Hell: The Musical” wound up as the lead in Meat Loaf’s teen-lust epic.
By Sarah Larson