Mark Danner and Frank Rich: Politics in America since 2000

Mark Danner is one of America’s finest reporters. Starting with his reporting on the 2000 Bush-Gore election, he has investigated, described, and analyzed the erosion of democratic institutions and the inexorable rise of authoritarianism. Along the way he has covered the second Iraq War, revelations of mass surveillance by the federal government, torture in Abu Ghraib, the secretive rise in electoral spending, manipulations in social media, and rising inequality and polarization. From Bush, through Obama, to Trump, Danner has written, in brilliant prose, the recent history of American politics in his new collection, Crossing the Rubicon: The Betrayal of American Democracy. He will be joined by Frank Rich on Thursday, November 19th at 7 PM EST to discuss what has happened over the past twenty-six years in the United States, and where the country might be headed.

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Mark Danner is the author The Massacre at El Mozote, Stripping Bare the Body, and Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for many years and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has received many honors, including a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, a Guggenheim, an Emmy, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California at Berkeley.

Frank Rich has been an opinion columnist and chief drama critic at the New York Times and writer-at-large at New York Magazine. His books include Ghost Light and The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina. His new memoir, Papering the House, will be published by Penguin Press in April 2027. Rich’s journalism honors include the George Polk Award for Commentary and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University. He has twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.