Amy Davidson Sorkin
Amy Davidson Sorkin joined The New Yorker in 1995 and has been a staff writer since 2014. As a senior editor for many years, she focussed on national security, international reporting, and features. She helped to reconceive Newyorker.com and served as the site’s executive editor. She is a regular Comment contributor for the magazine.
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The Supreme Court’s Surprise Defense of the Voting Rights Act
The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.
Guns, Trump, and the G.O.P.
The right’s push to loosen restrictions is resulting in a judicial and legislative free-for-all that is intersecting, disastrously, with the 2024 Presidential race.
What’s Going On with Samuel Alito?
The Justice’s objection to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in an abortion-pill case is another catalogue of his resentments.
How Will Donald Trump’s Trial Play on the Campaign Trail?
Trump must now operate with two calendars in mind—the court’s and the campaign’s—and so must much of the machinery of American politics.
How the I.R.A. Almost Blew Up the British Government
Four decades ago, a hotel bomb nearly claimed the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. Can we still feel the aftershocks?
How Republicans Are Handling Trump’s Possible Indictment
The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles.
Where Dominion v. Fox Could Lead
The case may have profound implications not only for the two companies but also for the legal framework in which the media operate.
What Did We Learn About the Georgia Grand Jury’s Findings?
It’s possible that all of the jurors’ votes recommended against indictment, but it isn’t sounding like it.
The New G.O.P. Takes the Country Hostage with the Debt Ceiling
Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.
The Biden-Documents Mess
House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.
Is Prince Harry’s “Spare” a Political Manifesto?
His own feelings about the value of the monarchy, he writes, are “complicated.”
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper
In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.
After the January 6th Committee
It will cease to exist, as a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House. Can the committee’s work move forward without the committee itself?
The Toughness of Nancy Pelosi
She helped save Obamacare and other transformative legislation, and made it clear when the nonsense had to stop.
The G.O.P. Is Standing by Trumpists Ahead of the Senate Midterms
One shouldn’t expect an overflowing of dignity in any of the half-dozen states where Senate seats are being seriously contested.
The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act
Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan.
Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
The Supreme Court’s Big New Term
There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.
A Bad Democratic Bet in the G.O.P. Primaries
Will Democrats come to regret the tactic of boosting extreme, election-denying Republican candidates?
The Supreme Court’s Surprise Defense of the Voting Rights Act
The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.
Guns, Trump, and the G.O.P.
The right’s push to loosen restrictions is resulting in a judicial and legislative free-for-all that is intersecting, disastrously, with the 2024 Presidential race.
What’s Going On with Samuel Alito?
The Justice’s objection to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in an abortion-pill case is another catalogue of his resentments.
How Will Donald Trump’s Trial Play on the Campaign Trail?
Trump must now operate with two calendars in mind—the court’s and the campaign’s—and so must much of the machinery of American politics.
How the I.R.A. Almost Blew Up the British Government
Four decades ago, a hotel bomb nearly claimed the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. Can we still feel the aftershocks?
How Republicans Are Handling Trump’s Possible Indictment
The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles.
Where Dominion v. Fox Could Lead
The case may have profound implications not only for the two companies but also for the legal framework in which the media operate.
What Did We Learn About the Georgia Grand Jury’s Findings?
It’s possible that all of the jurors’ votes recommended against indictment, but it isn’t sounding like it.
The New G.O.P. Takes the Country Hostage with the Debt Ceiling
Why the Republicans’ routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the borrowing limit, could end differently this time.
The Biden-Documents Mess
House Republicans are ramping up conspiracy theories, but one thing seems clear: the government’s documents system has an overclassification addiction.
Is Prince Harry’s “Spare” a Political Manifesto?
His own feelings about the value of the monarchy, he writes, are “complicated.”
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper
In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.
After the January 6th Committee
It will cease to exist, as a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House. Can the committee’s work move forward without the committee itself?
The Toughness of Nancy Pelosi
She helped save Obamacare and other transformative legislation, and made it clear when the nonsense had to stop.
The G.O.P. Is Standing by Trumpists Ahead of the Senate Midterms
One shouldn’t expect an overflowing of dignity in any of the half-dozen states where Senate seats are being seriously contested.
The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act
Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan.
Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?
In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.
The Supreme Court’s Big New Term
There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.
A Bad Democratic Bet in the G.O.P. Primaries
Will Democrats come to regret the tactic of boosting extreme, election-denying Republican candidates?