This time around, as I write in this week’s issue, “the record of failure after a hundred days is, at once, astonishing and predictable.” For no clear purposes, Trump has destabilized the global economy, alienated allies, laid waste to vital government agencies, deported hundreds of people (nearly all of whom have no criminal record) to a Salvadoran gulag, and waged a war of intimidation against dozens of scholarly, commercial, and legal institutions. For this series, Dhruv Khullar reports on the effects of the cancellation of a life-changing diabetes trial; Grace Byron writes about the bureaucratic nightmare of being trans in this moment; Charles Bethea covers the potential impacts of tariffs on the whiskey industry; and there’s more to come. In 2018, following the death of the beloved gorilla Koko, Sarah Larson recalled growing up during the ape craze of the nineteen-seventies, when “pop culture and the scientific community popularized earnest, loving representations of primates of many kinds, many of which seemed to be verging on consciousness-expansion.” 🦍
Author: David Remnick
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:00:00
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