Politics

The New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry dissects how Vice-President Harris became a “Kamalanomenon.”

The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.

As Kennedy’s 2024 election campaign collapses, he has embraced a new role as the former President’s latest ally.

A young man from Mali carves out a life for himself in an ancient trade in the Calabrian mountains, when the nation’s politics take a hard right turn.

The X C.E.O. has been using his platform to sound off on topics including Venezuela’s election, Trump’s campaign, and racial violence in the U.K.

Her campaign has ushered in a rush of political energy, evidenced by a deluge of memes and pop-culture mashups. Can this new optimism last?

Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.

In Milwaukee, with a candidate who had just cheated death, the resentment rhetoric of Trump’s 2016 campaign gave way to an atmosphere of festive certainty.

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.

A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.

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.