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When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis describ...
From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night”
Tue, 20 May 2025
This special episode comes from “On the Media” ’s Peabody-winning series “The Divided Dial,”...
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up
Fri, 16 May 2025
Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tappe...
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Tue, 13 May 2025
A year ago, Percival Everett published his twenty-fourth novel, “James,” and it became a literar...
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
Fri, 9 May 2025
When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Dem...
How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism
Tue, 6 May 2025
For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that w...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk
Fri, 2 May 2025
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trus...
A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
In recent years, there’s been a stark uptick in the level of violence and hate crimes that Asian A...
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic instit...
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game
Tue, 22 Apr 2025
In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed new life into the well-worn comedic fo...
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
Elon Musk, who’s chainsawing the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometim...
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the sto...
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Fri, 11 Apr 2025
Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after its C.E.O. killed an editorial she wrote that wa...
The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition”
Tue, 8 Apr 2025
Katie Kitamura’s fifth novel is “Audition,” and it focusses on a middle-aged actress and her a...
Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I Seriously
Fri, 4 Apr 2025
The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qua...
Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus
Tue, 1 Apr 2025
Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a profile of the religion profess...
Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and i...
A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
Tue, 25 Mar 2025
The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing ...
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent f...
We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE curre...
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Fri, 14 Mar 2025
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding...
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for acc...
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
Fri, 7 Mar 2025
Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dic...
Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television
Tue, 4 Mar 2025
When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actor...
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and ...
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
David Remnick is joined by Alexandra Schwartz, the co-host of the podcast Critics at Large, and The ...
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Since the election, Senator John Fetterman—once a great hope of progressives—has conspicuously b...
Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
Staff writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable w...
The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
Fri, 14 Feb 2025
In Donald Trump’s first term in office, the American Civil Liberties Union filed four hundred and ...
“No Other Land”: The Collective Behind the Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. I...
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple weeks of the new Trump Administr...
The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
Tue, 4 Feb 2025
David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Trei...
Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was the best known of a new breed: the tech mogul—...
Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a...
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, t...
The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—di...
Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
As President Biden took office in 2021, he aimed to rebuild alliances that Donald Trump had threaten...
One Environmental Journalist Thinks that the U.S. Needs More Mining
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
Donald Trump loves mining, and he would like to expand that effort in the U.S. At least one environm...
Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And ...
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
Tue, 7 Jan 2025
Sara Bareilles broke out as a pop-music star in the late two-thousands. But she’s gone on to have ...
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Fri, 3 Jan 2025
Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner ...
Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman...
The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. A...
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Willem Dafoe has one of the most distinctive faces and most distinctive voices in movies, deployed t...
From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yor...
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Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Annie Clark, known as St. Vincent, launched her career as a guitar virtuoso—a real shredder—in i...
From the Archive: Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Reco...
From Critics at Large: After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
The American musical is in a state of flux. Today’s Broadway offerings are mostly jukebox musicals...
Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Power dynamics in the Middle East shifted dramatically this year. In Lebanon, Israel dealt a severe ...
Audra McDonald on Stephen Sondheim, “Gypsy,” and Being Black on Broadway
Mon, 9 Dec 2024
“Gypsy,” a work by Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, and Arthur Laurents, is often called the greate...
Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans
Fri, 6 Dec 2024
Immigration has been the cornerstone of Donald Trump’s political career, and in his second success...
Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season
Tue, 3 Dec 2024
If “Wicked, Part I” and “Gladiator II” are not getting you into the theatre this weekend, Ju...
A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving; Plus, Ayelet Waldman on Quilting to Stay Sane
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise...
Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Sarah McBride just became the first transgender person elected to the United States Congress. A Demo...
Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Since the founding of the nation, just 116 people have served as Supreme Court Justices; the 116th i...
Danielle Deadwyler on August Wilson and Denzel Washington
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
Danielle Deadwyler, who first grabbed the spotlight for her performance as Emmett Till’s mother in...
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims. It’s hardly the...
Sam Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet” Is Shakespeare for the Youth
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Sam Gold has directed five Shakespeare tragedies, but his latest, “Romeo + Juliet,” is something...
Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future
Fri, 8 Nov 2024
In the end, Donald Trump’s rhetoric of another stolen election, and his opponents’ warnings that...
Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now
Mon, 4 Nov 2024
It made news when the retired general John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, s...
Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos
Fri, 1 Nov 2024
In recent weeks and months, dozens of prominent security and military officials and Republican polit...
How Alpha Kappa Alpha Shaped Kamala Harris; Plus, Bill T. Jones
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
One aspect of the Vice-President’s background that’s relatively overlooked, and yet critical to ...
Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats
Fri, 25 Oct 2024
In these final days of the Presidential campaign, Vice-President Kamala Harris has been getting in f...
The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
If Vice-President Kamala Harris wins in November, it will likely be on the strength of the pro-choic...
With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story
Fri, 18 Oct 2024
Since the blockbuster success of his musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda has been busy: actin...
Bon Iver on “SABLE,” His First New Record in Five Years
Wed, 16 Oct 2024
Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon, who holds an unusual place in music as both a singer-songwri...
The Astonishing Rise—and Uncertain Odds—of Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
Since July 21st, when Joe Biden endorsed her in the Presidential race, all eyes have been on Vice-Pr...
Brian Jordan Alvarez on “English Teacher”
Tue, 8 Oct 2024
Between book bans, the movement for parental rights, the fight over cellphones, and budgets being sl...
Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term
Fri, 4 Oct 2024
Long before Donald Trump got serious about politics, Newt Gingrich saw himself as the revolutionary ...
Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?
Tue, 1 Oct 2024
In Michigan, many voters—particularly Arab American and Muslim voters—remain deeply upset by the...
Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Actors and comedians have usually played Donald Trump as larger than life, almost as a cartoon. In t...
Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Since the war in Ukraine began, the historian Timothy Snyder has made several trips to Ukraine, and ...
Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
The political strategist Sarah Longwell has dedicated the last seven years to understanding why so m...
Lake Street Dive Performs in the Studio
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
Lake Street Dive recorded their first album with money that their bassist won in a songwriting conte...
Josh Shapiro on How Kamala Harris Can Win Pennsylvania
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
In 2024, all eyes are on Pennsylvania: its nineteen electoral votes make it the largest swing state,...
A Legend on Broadway, Patti LuPone Makes Her Début in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
Patti LuPone has been a mainstay on Broadway for half a century. She’s appeared in some 30 Broadwa...
Preparing For Trump’s Next “Big Lie,” with the Election Lawyer Marc Elias
Fri, 6 Sep 2024
Of the sixty-five lawsuits that Donald Trump’s team filed in the 2020 election, Democrats won sixt...
Ian Frazier’s Tour of “Paradise Bronx”
Tue, 3 Sep 2024
“I like to look at places that people aren’t seeing,” says Ian Frazier, the author of “Great...
The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial Identity in America
Fri, 30 Aug 2024
In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the experience of being biracial in a ...
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Take on Finance
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
In honor of what is for many people the final days of summer, the New Yorker Radio Hour team present...
From In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha?
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
This program is drawn from a new season of the award-winning investigative podcast In the Dark. On a...
For Republicans, the End of Abortion Rights Was a Dangerous Victory
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
At the Republican National Convention in July, a platform plank in place for decades that called for...
Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?
Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains e...
R.F.K., Jr., and the Central Park Bear, with Clare Malone
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone’s Profile, What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Wan...
Nancy Pelosi, the Power Broker
Thu, 8 Aug 2024
Nancy Pelosi, who represents California’s Eleventh Congressional District, led the Democratic Part...
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 2)
Tue, 6 Aug 2024
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, ...
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict (Part 1)
Fri, 2 Aug 2024
Israel has occupied the West Bank of the Jordan River since 1967, after the third Arab-Israeli war, ...
Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics
Mon, 29 Jul 2024
One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would no...
What Kamala Harris Needs to Win the Presidency, from a Veteran of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Fri, 26 Jul 2024
Kamala Harris will face barriers as a woman running for the Presidency. “Women constantly have to ...
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina,” the Tale of an Undocumented Student at Harvard
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Catalina Ituralde is the protagonist of the novel that bears her name, “Catalina.” In the summer...
The Presidential Race Is in Uncharted Territory, but It’s Clear Who’s Winning
Fri, 19 Jul 2024
The movement to persuade President Biden—long after the primaries—to drop out of the Presidentia...
Jane Mayer, David Grann, and Patrick Radden Keefe on the Importance of a Good Villain.
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
During the 2023 New Yorker Festival, three legendary staff writers got together to discuss the craft...
Julián Castro on the Biden Problem, and What the Democratic Party Got Wrong
Fri, 12 Jul 2024
The panic that gripped Democrats during and after President Biden’s performance in the June debate...
Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road
Tue, 9 Jul 2024
Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. F...
Robert Caro on the Making of “The Power Broker”
Fri, 5 Jul 2024
Fifty years ago, in July, 1974, The New Yorker began publishing a lengthy excerpt of Robert Caro’s...
The New Yorker’s Political Writers Answer Your Election Questions
Tue, 2 Jul 2024
At the beginning of 2021, it seemed like America might be turning a new page; instead, the election ...
John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel
Fri, 28 Jun 2024
Many Democrats saw John Fetterman as a progressive beacon: a Rust Belt Bernie Sanders who – with h...
Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV
Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum—who received a Pulitzer Prize, ...
Kevin Costner on “Yellowstone,” “Horizon,” and Why the Western Endures
Fri, 21 Jun 2024
Kevin Costner has been a leading man for more than forty years and has starred in all different genr...
Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies
Tue, 18 Jun 2024
Paul Scheer is a noted actor and comedian, and the author of the new memoir “Joyful Recollections ...
Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
Fri, 14 Jun 2024
On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will g...
After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
Tue, 11 Jun 2024
For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David War...
Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
Fri, 7 Jun 2024
When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a ...
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Tue, 4 Jun 2024
In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Mi...
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
Fri, 31 May 2024
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis describ...
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
Tue, 28 May 2024
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and...
Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic
Fri, 24 May 2024
On the reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” the most watched original series in Netflix his...
Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause
Tue, 21 May 2024
Some time in her forties, something shifted in Miranda July. She started having “this new, grim fe...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away
Fri, 17 May 2024
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has never held elected office but is related to many people who have, is...
How a Tech Executive Lobbied Lawmakers for the TikTok Ban
Tue, 14 May 2024
David Remnick talks with a proponent of the TikTok ban that just passed in Washington. Jacob Helberg...
Wired’s Katie Drummond: The TikTok Ban Is “Rooted in Hypocrisy”; Plus, Hannah Goldfield on Culinary TikTok
Fri, 10 May 2024
David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Could Swing the Election. Who Should Be More Worried—Biden or Trump?
Tue, 7 May 2024
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appeared on this show back in July, it was early in his run for Preside...
Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 3 May 2024
From Cambridge to Los Angeles and at dozens of schools in between, campuses are roiled by protest ag...
Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, Who Refused to “Find” Votes for Donald Trump, Prepares for Another Election
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Brad Raffensperger, who holds the usually low-profile office of secretary of state in Georgia, becam...
Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts)
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
Jerry Seinfeld used to have a comedy bit about the invention of the Pop-Tart, but when his friend Sp...
Judi Dench on Bond and Shakespeare
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
Probably far more people have now seen Judi Dench as M—the intelligence chief who’s the boss of ...
Jonathan Haidt on the Plague of Anxiety Affecting Young People
Fri, 19 Apr 2024
Both anecdotally and in research, anxiety and depression among young people—often associated with ...
Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out,” and Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
At a band rehearsal in Brooklyn, Rachel Syme talks to Maya Hawke about switching gears between actin...
How a Republican and a Democrat Carved out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban
Fri, 12 Apr 2024
Texas has multiple abortion laws, with both criminal and civil penalties for providers. They contain...
The Film Critic Justin Chang on What to See in 2024
Mon, 8 Apr 2024
The New Yorker’s newest staff member, Justin Chang, shares three films that he’s excited to see ...
The Attack on Black History, with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb
Fri, 5 Apr 2024
Across much of the country, Republican officials are reaching into K-12 classrooms and universities ...
Rhiannon Giddens, Americana’s Queen, on Cultivating the Black Roots of Country Music
Tue, 2 Apr 2024
By the standards of any musician, Rhiannon Giddens has taken a twisting and complex path. She was tr...
Alicia Keys Returns to Her Roots with Her New Musical, “Hell’s Kitchen”
Fri, 29 Mar 2024
Alicia Keys’ new musical is opening on Broadway about a ten-minute walk from where she grew up in ...
Percival Everett and the Reinvention of Mark Twain’s Jim
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
In a new novel, Percival Everett offers a radically different perspective on the classic story “Th...
Trump’s Authoritarian Pronouncements Recall a Dark History
Fri, 22 Mar 2024
In 2016, before most people imagined that Donald Trump would become a serious contender for the Pres...
March Madness 2024: College Basketball at a Crossroads
Tue, 19 Mar 2024
As this year’s annual March Madness tournament kicks off, there’s a sense of malaise around men’...
Judith Butler Can’t “Take Credit or Blame” for Gender Furor
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
A legal assault on trans rights by conservative groups and the Republican Party is escalating, the j...
In “Great Expectations,” Vinson Cunningham Watches Barack Obama’s Rise Up Close
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
Like most Americans, Vinson Cunningham first became aware of Barack Obama in 2004, when he gave a br...
Bradley Cooper Contends for Best Actor in “Maestro”
Fri, 8 Mar 2024
“Maestro,” about the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, is nominated for seven ...
What Biden Is Thinking About the 2024 Election
Sat, 2 Mar 2024
Despite hand-wringing among Democrats about Joe Biden’s age and his discouraging poll numbers, the...
Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
Fri, 1 Mar 2024
Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She wou...
Lily Gladstone on Holding the Door Open for More Native Actors in Hollywood. Plus, the Brody Awards
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
Lily Gladstone had been in several films, but unknown to most moviegoers, when she got a call for Ma...
Ty Cobb on Trump, Putin, and the Death of Alexey Navalny
Fri, 23 Feb 2024
Ty Cobb represented the Trump White House during the height of the Mueller-Russia probe, so he has a...
For Brontez Purnell, “Memoir Is Fiction—I Don’t Care What Anyone Says”
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
Brontez Purnell is a Renaissance man. He’s a musician, a dancer, a filmmaker, and the author of a ...
“Pod Save America” ’s Jon Lovett on Trump: “The Threat of Jail Time Sharpens the Mind”
Fri, 16 Feb 2024
Jon Lovett had been deep inside politics, as a speechwriter in the Obama Administration, before he j...
Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got”
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
The comedian Jacqueline Novak wasn’t well known before her Netflix début “Get on Your Knees.”...
Can Memes Swing the 2024 Election? Plus, Michelle Zauner on “Crying in H Mart”
Fri, 9 Feb 2024
In a Presidential race with two leading candidates who are broadly unpopular, any small perceived ed...
Sheila Heti Talks with Parul Sehgal About “Alphabetical Diaries”
Tue, 6 Feb 2024
The writer Sheila Heti is known for unusual approaches, but her latest work is decidedly experimenta...
Jonathan Blitzer on the Battle over Immigration; and Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick
Fri, 2 Feb 2024
In the shadow of another election year, Democrats and Republicans are at a bitter crossroads over im...
From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheik...
For Journalists, “Gaza Is Unprecedented,” and Deadly
Mon, 29 Jan 2024
Journalism has often been a dangerous business, and many reporters have lost their lives reporting t...
The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is so “Fertile” for Comedy
Fri, 26 Jan 2024
The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with his first feature film, “American Fict...
Pramila Jayapal: Biden’s “Coalition Has Fractured”
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic representative and leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has...
E. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”
Fri, 19 Jan 2024
After winning the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin, Donald Trump made his way to a courtroom in Ne...
Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle in “The Color Purple”
Tue, 16 Jan 2024
“I think of ‘The Color Purple’ as the epic of our time,” Doreen St. Félix said in a convers...
How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024
This time last year, Republicans were reeling from a poorer-than-expected performance in the 2022 mi...
From “Talk Easy”: Sam Fragoso Interviews David Remnick
Wed, 10 Jan 2024
As host of The New Yorker Radio Hour, David Remnick asks a lot of questions, and recently he had to ...
Ava DuVernay Wants Her Film “Origin” to Influence the 2024 Election
Mon, 8 Jan 2024
The filmmaker Ava DuVernay has a reputation for tackling challenging material about America’s trou...
How the Journalist John Nichols Became Another January 6th Conspiracy-Theory Target
Fri, 5 Jan 2024
The veteran political reporter John Nichols was taking his daughter to the orthodontist on January 6...
The Poet John Lee Clark’s “How to Communicate” Brings DeafBlind Experience to the Page
Tue, 2 Jan 2024
Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of...
Dexter Filkins Reports on the Border Crisis
Fri, 29 Dec 2023
Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months repor...