Mark Danner | The New York Review of Books

What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law

October 24, 2024

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

by Ramin Setoodeh

November 7, 2024 issue

The Grievance Artist

If Trump has a genius, it is his ability to shape, often out of his own self-made follies and recklessness and crimes, a narrative that relentlessly reaffirms his grim story of an us-versus-them America.

Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

by Miles Taylor

American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation

by David Rothkopf

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021

by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

by Luke Mogelson

November 2, 2023 issue

The Slow-Motion Coup

What has Donald Trump taken from our democracy?

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

by Michael Wolff

The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It

by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague

How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic

by Sallust, translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Josiah Osgood

One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

by William P. Barr

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump

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October 6, 2022 issue

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.

August 18, 2022 issue

‘Reality Rebellion’

By doubling down on Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.

July 1, 2021 issue

Journalism in a Time of Crisis

How has the work of journalists been altered by pandemic, protests, political violence, and the transformation of the news business?

March 4, 2021

‘Be Ready to Fight’

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.

February 11, 2021 issue

The Con He Rode In On

Why do people hardly even talk about all the car plants Donald Trump has brought to Michigan?

November 19, 2020 issue

Hypocrisy and Human Rights

Human rights are dead in the words and actions of our president, the highest symbolic exponent of American values. But the president is not everything.

June 1, 2020

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

May 11, 2017 issue

What Trump Could Do

The Trump ascendancy has been an ongoing seminar on where norms end and laws begin.

March 23, 2017 issue

The Real Trump

He is an improviser, a performer, a creator of new worlds.

Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher

December 22, 2016 issue

On the Election—II

A struggle for political power in which, for once, all is at stake

November 10, 2016 issue

The Magic of Donald Trump

We are told again and again: his is the most improbable political story in decades, perhaps in history. And yet…

Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

by Donald J. Trump

May 26, 2016 issue

The CIA: The Devastating Indictment

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program

by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

February 5, 2015 issue

Our New Politics of Torture

Twelve years after the decision to use torture was secretly made, we’re seeing a public effort not only to defend the CIA but also to defend torture itself.

December 30, 2014