Best New Yorker The Political Scene
The Political Scene covers politics, government, and policy. These pieces examine Washington, elections, and the forces shaping American political life.
20 picks · 1994–2024
Top authors: Ryan Lizza (2), George Packer (2), Jane Mayer (2)
With a lopsided conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, Eyal Press writes, progressive activists are seeking legal opportunities in state constitutions.
Dan Kaufman writes about the activists who are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.
As the 2020 elections approach, Abrams is leading the battle against voter suppression, Jelani Cobb writes.
Evan Osnos on how the Administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance.
Evan Osnos on what it would take to cut short Donald Trump’s Presidency.
Andrew Marantz on how Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s press secretary, dismisses the mainstream media while giving preference to far-right journalists.
David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, and what President Barack Obama’s reaction to the new political landscape is.
Jane Mayer on Tony Schwartz, the journalist who authored “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump’s best-seller, but who opposes Trump’s Presidential aims.
Jane Mayer on James O’Keefe, an amateurish spy, and his hit jobs against George Soros and Hillary Clinton.
Despite her humble origins, she seems to have internalized Donald’s outlook. She’s as imperial as her husband, if not more so. Lauren Collins writes.
How the economic crisis can help Obama redefine the Democrats.
How Chicago shaped Obama.
Have the Republicans run out of ideas?
Ryan Lizza on the campaign strategies that helped Barack Obama catch up to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential primary race.
Manhattan’s legendary D.A. faces a tough challenger.
THE POLITICAL SCENE about Kenneth Starr's effort to prove that President Bill Clinton perjured himself when he denied having an affair with White House…
THE POLITICAL SCENE about the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention... The news that President Clinton's chief …
THE POLITICAL SCENE about Sen. Bob Dole's collapsing Presidential bid... Whatever the poll numbers, whatever the panicked advice from his handlers, …
Gore has spent his life preparing for the Presidency, only to find himself now cast as the Walter Mondale of the nineties, Peter J. Boyer writes. If it’s too late to save this Administration, is there still time to save his party and himself?