Amy Davidson became a staff writer in 2014. She has been at The New Yorker since 1995, and as a senior editor for many years focussed on national security, international reporting, and features. Davidson helped to reconceive newyorker.com, where she served as the site’s executive editor and now edits Daily Comment. She is a regular Comment contributor for the magazine and writes a Web column, in which she covers war, sports, and everything in between.
The risks of promoting Fiorina as the anti-Trump.
In New Hampshire, Donald Trump elicited ugliness, he got it, and, to all appearances, he relished it.
The debate reflected the state of the Republican Party: at once recklessly insinuating and utterly timid when it comes to extremism in its own ranks.
The candidates’ views on birthright citizenship will reveal much about their vision of America and their willingness to play on the country’s fears and divisions.
Europe is waking up to the crisis. America should, too.
Money talked in the Imperial election of 1519, as it does now.
How a kid from Detroit changed neurosurgery, entered politics, and became a Republican ideologue.
According to a new theory, Tutankhamun’s burial chamber was originally a side room in Nefertiti’s tomb, and the queen’s body lies hidden behind a wall.
The problem is that the other Republican candidates are not clear in their own minds about why Trump’s comments about the Fox host were wrong.
The debate was supposed to bring on a winnowing of the field. But it looks like this reality-show could go on for a while.
Photographs of the civil-rights struggle surrounding the passage of the Voting Rights Act, fifty years ago.
Trump is not the only Republican candidate with an odd sense of scale, or lack of perspective.
