Jelani Cobb

The Republicans are now in major trouble.

I want to bring in Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, staff writer with The New Yorker magazine.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

Yeah, I can believe it.

Respect.

Jelani Cobb, have a great weekend.

Gave us a lot to think about.

Um, so a lot of us who are younger peers of him begin to do something similar in our own work, and you can kind of see Adam Serwer at The Atlantic does like similar kind of work as I do.

Jelani Cobb, who's older than us, I think even older than T, does similar kind of work at The New Yorker.

Nikole Hannah-Jones does similar kind of work at The New York Times, right? There's a cohort of predominantly Black journalists, but not exclusively, who are kind of working in the same mode.

And so I very much consider myself part of this cohort of people.

How theocrats and tech lords are turning America into a monarchy.

And then we have with us Jelani Cobb, MSNOW political contributor, staff writer at The New Yorker and dean of Columbia Journalism School.

And Jason Selvig, comedian and co-host of The Good Liars.

So good to have all of you at the table this afternoon.

We have a situation where it's time to dox the Arkansas senator so we can make sure golfers have more sunlight.

With that, one more reminder to read this incredible book, because, again, it'll help you make sense of a lot of weird things going on in this country right now.

Brad Onishi, Paula Ramos, Jelani Cobb, Jason Selvig, thank you all so much for a great edition of The Assignment Desk.

And thank you all for joining me for this edition of The Assignment.

And that was Jill Lepore's feature article on AI and the law in the September 28th issue of The New Yorker.

Turning to online content, Jelani Cobb offers a comment on the president versus the press.

Donald Trump's decision on September eighteenth to summarily revoke White House access from three major news outlets, CNN, Politico, and MS Now, is consistent with the mercurial, paranoid, and inscrutable style that has defined his political career but has been particularly prominent in his second term.

Since Trump returned to the presidency, his administration has tended to justify its most belligerent actions by claiming national security concerns or by couching said actions as an attempt to root out fraud.