The New Yorker gives us some of the very best thinking and writing on “The Aftermath” of this election from some of the best minds we have writing today. While I recommend reading the whole thing if that is too much you can jump to the writer of your choice via these links:
- George Packer on the Democratic opposition
- Atul Gawande on Obamacare’s future
- Hilary Mantel on the unseen
- Peter Hessler on the rural vote
- Toni Morrison on whiteness
- Jane Mayer on climate-change denial
- Evan Osnos on the Schwarzenegger precedent
- Jeffrey Toobin on the Supreme Court
- Mary Karr on the language of bullying
- Jill Lepore on a fractured nation
- Gary Shteyngart on life in dystopia
- Nicholas Lemann on the Wall Street factor
- Larry Wilmore on the birtherism of a nation
- Jia Tolentino on the protests
- Mark Singer on Trump the actor
- Junot Díaz on Radical Resilience
Or read the whole collection starting here…
Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America
Jump to a section: Four decades ago, Watergate revealed the potential of the modern Presidency for abuse of power on a vast scale. It also showed that a strong democracy can overcome even the worst illness ravaging its body.