William Jelani Cobb

Police treatment of the Capitol rioters "says a lot about who is an enemy combatant and who is not."

Social media users lambaste president and compare police treatment of racial justice protesters with response to mob

CNN has yet to terminate Jeffrey Toobin amid an ongoing masturbation scandal even as the liberal New York Times renewed the spotlight on the network's star legal analyst's fall from grace, hinting that CNN could keep him around despite a history of "pervy'" actions.

With the election winner still undecided, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election law expert Michael Kang and Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker about the state of American democracy.

Rapper Lil Wayne tweeted his endorsement of Trump Thursday and was criticized for his support of the president's plan to help Black Americans.

CNN star legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was suspended by his other employer, The New Yorker, on Monday amid claims he was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues. While the prestigious magazine took action, CNN instead issued a statement claiming Toobin just wanted some time off.

From 2016: A new kind of movement found its moment, Jelani Cobb writes. What will its future be?

On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Doreen St. Félix interviews Michaela Coel about "I May Destroy You," and Katy Waldman, Amy Davidson Sorkin, Eric Lach, and Jelani Cobb discuss Joe Biden.

Catastrophe is both an emergency and also the normal, everyday condition in which we live.

From The New Yorker's archive: pieces by Jelani Cobb, Allyson Hobbs, Karen Good Marable, Dexter Filkins, Amy Davidson Sorkin, and Calvin Trillin that examine racism and police misconduct from both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga, who have a combined following of 200 million people, let organizations and Black Lives Matter leaders take over their Instagrams.

Jelani Cobb on the death of the twenty-five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed while going for a run in Brunswick, Georgia, in February.

Evan Osnos reflects on the Inaugural Address of President Joe Biden and speaks to the Reverend Dr. William Barber on the challenges—racism, poverty, health care, among others—that the President faces in reuniting the country.

The viral video underscored how even longtime Trump allies have become targets of a conspiracy movement promoted by the president.

Jelani Cobb writes about how Donald Trump's politics and ideology led to the G.O.P. losing control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency, and to the storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.

Jelani Cobb writes that Black Americans' distrust of the COVID-19 vaccine is rooted not just in their distrust of Donald Trump but also in the exploitation of African-American men in the Tuskegee Experiment and of Henrietta Lacks.

CNN's star legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin lost his job as a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine Wednesday following an investigation into an incident in which Toobin was seen masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues at the venerable publication.

Jelani Cobb writes about the results so far of the 2020 Presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the central role that Black voters have played in supporting the Democratic nominee.

Jelani Cobb writes about the moral implications of the 2020 election's contest between Donald Trump and the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket.