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The New York writer on how the Republican Party’s past explains the election of an American demagogue.

The new Times book review editor on the future of criticism and what our books say about us.

The New Yorker’s David Grann on the future of longform journalism and reporting unsolved murders

ESPN’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss on working the Warriors beat, Steph Curry, and “sticking to sports” in the age of Trump.

New York Magazine writer Andrew Sullivan on the decay of conservatism and why he expected Trump’s victory.

Isaac Chotiner speaks with author and New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman about what inspired her new novel The Idiot

Isaac Chotiner speaks with Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes about his new book A Colony in a Nation.

Senator Schumer finds himself in a political climate unlike anything he has witnessed in his 38 years in Washington.

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