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Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the...

29.12.2024 30

The New Yorker

Bill Mckibben

Remembering a Visit to Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia

In September, 2011, I drove to Plains, Georgia, with Gerald Rafshoon, President Jimmy Carter’s former media adviser. Rafshoon had asked me to write...

29.12.2024 70

The New Yorker

Lawrence Wright

Kamala Harris’s Youth-Vote Turnaround

Just before Joe Biden dropped out of the Presidential race, polls showed a head-spinning turn in the youth electorate. Since the Obama years,...

11.08.2024 5

The New Yorker

E. Tammy Kim

Nancy Pelosi’s Art of Power

Listen to David Remnick and Nancy Pelosi on the New Yorker Radio Hour. Nancy Pelosi likes to say that she went from “housewife to House member to...

08.08.2024 70

The New Yorker

David Remnick

What Tim Walz Brings to Kamala Harris’s Campaign to Beat Donald Trump

Tim Walz is surely the only major-party Vice-Presidential nominee whose candidacy was propelled into being by a single word: “weird.” “These are...

06.08.2024 3

The New Yorker

Peter Slevin

J. D. Vance and the Right’s Call to Have More Babies

By the close of his second week as Donald Trump’s running mate, Senator J. D. Vance’s 2021 comments about the “childless cat ladies” allegedly...

05.08.2024 2

The New Yorker

Margaret Talbot