Dan Kaufman

Dan Kaufman is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics. He is currently a fellow of the Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri. (December 2025)

‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’

As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence.

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

by Paul Preston

December 4, 2025 issue

What Labor Could Lose

After four years under Jennifer Abruzzo, who fought to revitalize its mission, the National Labor Relations Board finds itself more threatened than ever.

January 19, 2025