| The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.  Photograph by Dan Winters for The New Yorker A decade ago, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., did indeed transport a dead bear cub from upstate New York and dump it in Central Park, along with a bicycle, in what can most charitably be described as an unaccountable prank. But that story (along with a photo of the poor bear) isn’t the only startling revelation about the third-party Presidential candidate that emerges from the essential and already widely circulated reporting by Clare Malone, in this week’s issue of the magazine. “He has a very addictive nature, whatever it is—whether it’s drugs, whether it’s sex, whether it’s attention,” a longtime Kennedy friend explains to Malone, who tracks how a child of political royalty transformed from an environmental advocate to a leading national voice promoting fringe ideas about such topics as the C.I.A. and vaccines. Malone also tries to make sense of the campaign’s theory of Kennedy’s candidacy—and why he is running at all. One key is Donald Trump’s success as a candidate, which revealed the opportunities for a politician beset by scandal. As Kennedy says, “I think that it enlarged the notions of what’s possible.” Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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