No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this election historically fraught. David Remnick speaks about the state of the race with some of The New Yorker’s political thinkers: Susan B. Glasser, Evan Osnos, Jeannie Suk Gersen, and Amy Davidson Sorkin. Plus, Jill Lepore on threats to democracy in the past and how they were addressed.
A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?
David Remnick talks with Susan B. Glasser, Evan Osnos, Jeannie Suk Gersen, and Amy Davidson Sorkin about the challenges to a peaceful transition of power.
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now
A historian looks to the nineteen-thirties—the last time democracy in America seemed so fraught—for insights into our moment.
