New York Review of Books
Mark Danner
We’re in an Emergency—Act Like It!
At a time when the threat of authoritarianism is rising, Democrats have a duty to make crystal clear to voters what is at stake in the November elections.
David Cole
Egregiously Wrong: The Supreme Court’s Unprecedented Turn
In several of the term’s most controversial cases, the Court’s new majority applied originalism to disastrous effect.
The White People in My Blood
Ian Bassin and Erica Newland
The Attorney General’s Choice
Merrick Garland’s job in weighing a Trump indictment is not to heal the nation.
Free from the Archives
For the Review’s December 21, 2000, issue—nine days after the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore ended a recount of votes in Florida, effectively declaring George W. Bush president—Mark Danner wrote about that pivotal election. It was the first time since 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland in the electoral college, that a president was chosen despite having lost the popular vote, and Danner saw in Al Gore’s “down-to-the-wire” defeat the result of many years of “corrupt funding” and two political parties with no “interest in delivering a message that might mobilize the voters who never turn out.”
Mark Danner
Scandal & the Road to Deadlock
“Only serious reform offers a hope of eventually breaking this cycle. And yet can anyone imagine the incoming government passing effective laws to limit the sway of money in politics?”
