Donald Trump’s Capital Makeover | The New Yorker
The President’s primary preoccupation engenders a certain amount of armchair psychology among those who know and work with…
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
The transatlantic alliance reflected a world that was designed and largely enforced by American power. Now, as American…
Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump
The most exuberant farewell event—a dance party at the White House—took place on January 6th. It was a…
From the daily newsletter: Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, is reportedly being held in a New York City detention-center unit known for housing rappers and tech moguls.
Illustration by Ben Kothe; Source photographs from Getty Diego LasarteA member of the editorial staff Four months ago,…
Cuba’s Government Has Been Pushed to the Brink of Collapse
When Jon Lee Anderson travelled to Havana earlier this year, he found a city whose plazas and squares…
Is Cuba Next? | The New Yorker
Cuba’s emergency truly subsided only after Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela, in 1998. Chávez and Castro…
The Migrants in the Ancient Forest
In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at…
Russia Is Swarming Europe with Young Agents
Illustration by Álvaro Bernis Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out arson and other…
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
As Secretary of State and also national-security adviser, Rubio is, at least in theory, the most powerful American…
The Lights Are Still On in Venezuela
We spent Christmas Eve driving around Caracas, revisiting familiar places, such as San Agustín del Norte, the neighborhood…
Marco Rubio, Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
For Rubio, taking down the regimes in Venezuela and Cuba has long been seen as a way of…
Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump
When the King visited Greenland in April—looking jaunty and at ease while cruising on a fjord with the…