The New Yorker asked sixteen authors to share their thoughts on how the United States will function under a Donald Trump presidency. This group includes George Packer, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, Peter Hessler, Toni Morrison, Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Toobin, Mary Karr, Jill Lepore, Gary Shteyngart, Nicholas Lemann, Larry Wilmore, Jia Tolentino, Mark Singer, and Junot Díaz.
These authors discussed a number of different topics such as the future of the Affordable Care Act, climate change denial, the Supreme Court, bullying, and Wall Street. Here’s an excerpt from Shteyngart’s piece, “Dystopia“:
“My parents and grandparents never fully recovered from the strains of having lived in an authoritarian society. Daily compromise ground them down, even after they came to America. They left Russia, but Russia never left them. How do you read through a newspaper composed solely of lies? How do you walk into a store while being Jewish? How do you tell the truth to your children? How do you even know what the truth is?”