“President Trump’s weak pushback to hate groups—as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters—compelled me to take up my pen,” David Plunkert, the artist behind next week’s issue, said. Plunkert seldom takes on political subject matter, but felt moved to do so in light of Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville. “A picture does a better job showing my thoughts than words do; it can have a light touch on a subject that’s extremely scary.”
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
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Are Trump Supporters Racist?
In the first of an ongoing series of panel discussions called “Public Forum: A Well-Ordered Nation,” David Remnick talks to Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, and Claudia Rankine about bigotry among Trump voters and political apathy in America.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
I Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You
The ex-President is building a whole new edifice of lies for 2024.
By Susan B. Glasser