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Fear of a Black President

The irony of President Barack Obama is best captured in his comments on the death of Trayvon Martin, and the ensuing fray. Obama has pitched his presidency as a monument to moderation. He peppers his…
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9497 words)

Feel the Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Sometime early last May, I began to have this goofy notion, which turned into a daydream and eventually became a recurring fantasy. It went like this: One morning, I would wake up to the news that…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (774 words)

President Obama’s Executive Power Grab

Obama was gripping the telephone so tightly that it looked as if he were about to pulverize it in the palm of his hand. Illustration by Ben Wiseman; Source: Brendan Hoffman / Bloomberg News-Corbis…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3620 words)

Love on the March

I. THE CHANGEThe week after Barack Obama was elected President, I attended a music festival at Arizona State University, in Tempe. Because Veterans Day was the following Tuesday, it was a party…
AUTHOR:Alex Ross
PUBLISHED: Nov. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1008 words)

Welcome to Seoul, the City of the Future

I’m being chauffeured through a parking garage above Seoul’s main train station with Minsuk Cho, who heads one of the city’s most innovative architectural practices, Mass…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7191 words)

How Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit Became the Most Powerless Powerful Man on Wall Street -- New York Magazine

(Photo: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images (Citi), Larry Downing/Reuters/Landov (Pandit)) For a few seconds, the question hangs in the air. “Would you just raise your hand?” The congresswoman…
AUTHOR:Joe Hagan
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2009
LENGTH: 3 minutes (790 words)

Boss Rail

On the morning of July 23, 2011, passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest, fastest, and newest high-speed…
AUTHOR:Evan Osnos
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (938 words)

Biden and Ryan in The New Yorker

Pity the poor Vice-President. John Adams, the first Vice-President, once described the oft-deprecated position as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

Transaction Man

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President, and how his political career has been shaped by his background in the Mormon faith and the worlds of…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1021 words)
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