Presidential Candidates
The Lede
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Steps Aside for Donald Trump
As Kennedy’s 2024 election campaign collapses, he has embraced a new role as the former President’s latest ally.
By Clare Malone
Cover Story
Barry Blitt’s “Roller Coaster”
The highs and lows of the campaigns for America’s highest office.
By Françoise Mouly
Dispatch
A Mood of Optimism at Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Stop
Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.
By Emily Witt
Dispatch
The Controlled Normalcy of Kamala Harris’s Trip to Las Vegas
On Tuesday, with Joe Biden’s reëlection campaign in free fall, the Vice-President travelled to Nevada for what some hoped would be her launch as the Democratic Presidential candidate.
By Antonia Hitchens
Fault Lines
The Case for Joe Biden Staying in the Race
The known bad candidate is better than the chaos of the unknown.
By Jay Caspian Kang
The Political Scene
Tim Scott’s Racial Absolution
The senator from South Carolina presents an early electoral victory—he became president of his high school, years after a “race riot”—as a tidy tale of prejudice overcome. Is that the full story?
By Robert Samuels
The Political Scene
Nikki Haley’s Consensus Appeal
A canny establishment conservative may be Biden’s greatest threat in 2024. But can she solve the Trump problem?
By Antonia Hitchens
Letter from Biden’s Washington
2024 Preview: Bidenomics Versus the Trump Freak Show
The President’s feel-good tour offers a stark contrast to his predecessor’s summer of conspiracies and criminal indictments. But will it work?
By Susan B. Glasser
Q. & A.
The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Democratic Presidential candidate talks about his right-wing admirers, his distrust of scientists and the media, and his belief that the C.I.A. was involved in J.F.K.’s death.
By David Remnick
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 6th
“Where is your section for books by people who aren’t obviously running for President?”
By Brendan Loper
Our Columnists
The Serious Takeaway from CPAC: Trump and Trumpism Are Still a Threat
Behind all the craziness is a movement that has given up on truth and respecting democracy.
By John Cassidy
Our Columnists
Is Donald Trump Losing His Mojo?
The former President’s political and legal challenges are mounting, even as some polls indicate that he still has a lot of support among Republicans.
By John Cassidy
Our Columnists
Can Any Republican Rival Take Down Donald Trump?
The only way for non-MAGA Republicans to consign the former President to history is for them to unite against him.
By John Cassidy
Postscript
Remembering Walter Mondale
The former Vice-President and Presidential candidate told voters the hard and politically costly truths they didn’t want to hear.
By Jane Mayer
Comment
Trump’s Bitter, Vainglorious Fantasy of America on the Debate Stage
Biden’s challenge was that the President lies in a manner that is so unanchored to reality that it becomes disorienting for anyone watching.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
The Political Scene
The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump
This Presidency poses stark questions about the ideological future of both parties.
By Nicholas Lemann
The Stakes
The New Yorker Endorses a Biden Presidency
It would be a relief simply to have a President who doesn’t abuse the office as a colossal grift. But a new President must also address the failures that have been festering in American life for decades.
By The Editors
American Chronicles
How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election
A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?
By Thomas Mallon
Profiles
Can Biden’s Center Hold?
After a career built on incremental progress, Joe Biden is promising a Presidency of transformational change. The election will test whether his campaign can bring together a divided Party and a beleaguered country.
By Evan Osnos
Wyoming Postcard
Who Is Kanye’s Running Mate?
Residents of Cody, Wyoming—where Kanye West has a ranch—compare notes on Michelle Tidball, the local mystic who works in a dentist’s office and says she can communicate with God.
By Charles Bethea