Andrew Marantz

The rapper and producer has become a pariah, running for President and praising Hitler. A new documentary gives insight into what went wrong.

From the daily newsletter: a new documentary explores the rapper’s fall from grace.

Broadcasting from the White House, the Vice-President seemed to complete the merger of politics and red-meat live streams—and to threaten more ominous crackdowns ahead.

The “entertainer” Kareem Rahma discusses Kamala Harris’s missed opportunity on his show, meeting Andrew Cuomo, and why disagreement is more fun.

Flanner’s tone was cool and ironic, above taking sides. But, in a Profile of Adolf Hitler, refusing to take sides can be a way to miss the story.

Busting out of the accommodations game, the tech giant is now hawking experiences. Massage, haircut, Jet Ski, anyone?

Or does he?

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.

From the daily newsletter: how democracy slips away. Plus: a life-changing scientific study ended in Trump’s first hundred days.

Is It Happening Here?

From the daily newsletter: the young men who’ve gone MAGA. Plus: a tariff warning for Trump from his role model; the widowers driving TV plots; and a novel for the age of aimless aspiration.

Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back?

The comedian, who stars in a new one-man show, “Grandiloquent,” explains why he keeps returning to his childhood in Massachusetts.

The sociologist Musa al-Gharbi argues that the “Great Awokening” alienated “normie voters,” making it difficult for Kamala Harris—and possibly future Democrats—to win.

The public intellectual’s Presidential campaign could ease Donald Trump’s path to the White House. Why won’t he drop out?

After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism might look like. This fall, he took his act on tour.

The rally featured Hulk Hogan, Rudy Giuliani, “Y.M.C.A.,” and a thrum of American nativism.

The comedian, whose new show’s title, “WOOF!,” might refer to dogs or to a reaction to a Gadsby joke, ponders the very particular environments in which they flourish.

From the daily newsletter: Andrew Marantz on undecided voters; the case for having lots of kids; Katy Perry becomes the joke; and has Trump’s luck finally run out?

Some progressives in Michigan say that they won’t support Kamala Harris unless she changes her policy on Israel. Will their tactics persuade her, or risk throwing the election to Trump?