Amy Davidson
The New Yorker
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Love for Russian Dirt
The President’s son revealed, in his own words, no hesitation to accept information that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” → Read More
Amy Davidson
Amy Davidson became a staff writer in 2014. She has been at The New Yorker since 1995, and as a senior editor for many years focussed on national security, international reporting, and features. Davidson helped to reconceive newyorker.com, where she served as the site’s executive editor and now edits Daily Comment. She is a regular Comment contributor for the magazine and writes a Web column, in… → Read More
The Senate’s Disastrous Health-Care Bill
Though the plan is morally shocking, politically it is not. → Read More
The Real Problem with Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Segment
Kelly failed to make sense of the role that Donald Trump—or, for that matter, her former employer—has played in legitimizing Jones’s conspiracy theories. → Read More
Jeff Sessions and the Trail of Unanswered Questions
Amy Davidson writes about the Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and his role in James Comey’s firing. → Read More
The Ninth Circuit Rejects Trump’s Travel Ban Again
Amy Davidson writes about the Ninth Circuit’s decision in striking down Donald Trump’s travel ban, which has repeatedly been rejected by various courts. → Read More
The Only Man in the Room with Trump
In asking to not be left alone with the President, James Comey was seeking the opposite of what so many others in Washington seem to want. → Read More
Trump’s “Travel Ban” Tweets Show His Disdain for the Law
When it comes to the ban, Trump is mocking his lawyers, believers in the language of the law, and pretty much everyone else involved. → Read More
Angela Merkel and the Insult of Trump’s Paris Climate-Accord Withdrawal
Amy Davidson writes about Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, and how the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has responded. → Read More
Trump’s Travel Ban “Drips with Intolerance” on Its Way to the Supreme Court
In refusing to reinstate the Trump Administration’s Muslim travel ban, the Fourth Circuit asked Trump, in effect, whom he thought he was fooling. → Read More
At NATO Headquarters, Trump Fails Another Leadership Test
Amy Davidson writes about Donald Trump’s visit to the new NATO headquarters, where he asked the group’s members to increase their financial contributions. → Read More
FOCUS: Michael Flynn and the Trump Administration's Lobbyist Secrets
Davidson writes: There is something distinctly dangerous about a government that thinks that what it can hide and lie about does not, for practical purposes, exist - that if no one knows about it, it's not a problem, even internally. → Read More
Michael Flynn and the Trump Administration’s Lobbyist Secrets
Amy Davidson on Michael Flynn, Donald Trump, and reminders of how much the upholding of government ethics relies on access to open information. → Read More
Donald Trump’s Advice to Graduates
As the story of the Comey memo broke, the President gave a speech that made clear how fine the line is between self-aggrandizement and self-pity. → Read More
H. R. McMaster and Appropriate Presidential Behavior
Propriety depends on circumstance—an idea that the national-security adviser leaned on heavily in his recitation of rationalizations for Trump’s behavior. → Read More
The Threat in President Trump’s Interview with Lester Holt
Amy Davidson writes about Donald Trump’s recent interview with Lester Holt, of NBC News, about the President’s firing of the F.B.I. director, James Comey. → Read More
The Fourth Circuit Examines Trump’s Travel-Ban Motives
Asking for a presumption of regularity, or legality, or just basic honesty, is asking a lot, when it comes to the Trump Administration. → Read More
Obama’s Life Post-Presidency
A Wall Street speaking fee complicates the role that the Democrats still need him to play. → Read More
Donald Trump’s Unintelligible Presidency
In an interview with A.P., the President repeated what might be called the mood music of his world, and his ability to call the tune. → Read More
Fox Lost Bill O’Reilly, But It Still Has Donald Trump
Amy Davidson on how Bill O’Reilly’s ouster at Fox News is unlikely to change the tenor of the network or its treatment of women in the Donald Trump era. → Read More