Representative Matt Gaetz arrived at the White House in the last days of 2020, amid a gathering national crisis. President Donald Trump had lost his bid for reëlection the previous month, and his allies were exploring strategies to keep him in office. Though only thirty-eight years old, Gaetz, the scion of a political family in Florida’s Panhandle, had become one of the Republican Party’s most prominent and divisive figures.
The Political Scene: Border Troubles
In early December, 2020, Alejandro Mayorkas was called to Wilmington, Delaware, for a meeting with Joe Biden. The President-elect was choosing his Cabinet, and Mayorkas, whom Biden knew personally, had the sort of résumé that made him an obvious contender for a top role in the new Administration. Then a partner at WilmerHale, an élite white-shoe law firm in Washington, D.C., he had been a U.S. Attorney under Bill Clinton and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama.
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Themen | 011/2024 (06.03.2024)
Profiles: The Last Campaign
Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, President Biden voices defiant confidence.
Letter from Mexico: The Forty-Three
After a group of Mexican students disappeared, their parents fought for justice.
Onward and Upward with the Arts: High Anxiety
The playwright Lucy Prebble is expert at getting inside worried people’s heads.
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Themen | 012/2024 (13.03.2024)
Profiles: You Tell Me
In a cramped, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students are working on a short story. As they talk, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, sits quietly at the head of a too-large table, one palm propped on it, his body turning almost imperceptibly from side to side. His head, adorned with tangled strands of dark gray hair, is framed by a huge television hanging behind him, its screen a black surface....
A Critic at Large: Gone with the Wind
In December 1863, Abraham Lincoln had sat in the presidential box on two consecutive evenings and watched "Henry IV" - "Pause till these rebels, now on their feet, come under the yoke of government" - and in November, ten days before delivering the Gettysburg Address, he had seen John Wilkes Booth....
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Themen | 014/2024 (27.03.2024)
A Reporter at Large: Time’s Up
The Conservatives have ruled Britain for almost fourteen years. What have they done to the country?
Annals of Design: Water World
A Dutch architect’s vision of cities that float.
Profiles: Consider the Gun
The director Lila Neugebauer interrogates the ghosts of “Uncle Vanya.”
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