John Roberts’s Delusions By David Remnick

Chief Justice John Roberts The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. In March of 2025, after giving his annual address to Congress, President Donald Trump patted the shoulder of Chief Justice John Roberts, who had been sitting in the chamber, and was seen telling him, “Thank …

Post-Truth, Pomp, and Private Jets: Tina Brown on the Erosion of Modern Reality by Lawson Akhigbe

If there is anyone who knows how the sausage of public perception gets made, it is Tina Brown. The legendary former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker has spent decades watching power players, monarchs, and media moguls manipulate the spotlight. At the recent Truth Tellers Summit, an event she founded to honor her …

When Journalists Become Political Courtiers and Interviews Become Political Theatre By Lawson Akhigbe

A democracy does not always die at the barrel of a gun. Sometimes, it dies beneath television studio lights, while journalists entrusted with holding power accountable sit silently as politicians explain why nobody can hold them accountable.