Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring. Plus, the federal workers behind We the Builders.

The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine. Plus, how the former senator got the gold bars that sent him to prison.

The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup to bail out.” Plus, Richard Brody on the year in film.

The A.C.L.U.’s executive director discusses the possibility of a constitutional crisis. Plus, Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast pick favorites from The New Yorker’s century of publication.

The staff writer Jelani Cobb talks about the Trump Administration’s attempts to root out policies of diversity, equity, and inclusion—which it describes as discriminatory. 

The Microsoft co-founder discusses his new memoir, A.I., vaccine skepticism, and his dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, two anthologies for The New Yorker’s centennial.

Susan Morrison on “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” with a reading from SNL alumna Tina Fey. And the staff writer Dana Goodyear on losing her home in the LA wildfires.

President Biden’s long-serving Secretary of State discusses the challenges of the last four years, and his reason for optimism that lasting peace in the Middle East remains possible.