Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’s flip-f...
Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City’s cultural life, having mounted era...
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When President Donald Trump began his tariff rollout, the business world predicted that his unpreced...
Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to ...
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administration than J. ...
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer P...
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. B...
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it be...
Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been...
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Linklater is one of the most admired directors working today, and yet moviegoers may admire ...
How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on highe...
John Carpenter Picks Three Favorite Film Scores
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker John Carpenter has a whole shelf of cult classics: “They Live,” “The Thing,” “...
Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Next month, New York City may elect as its next mayor a man who was pretty much unknown to the broad...
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lionel Richie has been making music for fifty years. He has sold more than a hundred million albums,...
A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert P. George is not a passive observer of the proverbial culture wars; he’s been a very active...
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Political Scene’s Washington Roundtable—the staff writers Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser, and Eva...
Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the pol...
The Cartoonist Liana Finck Picks Three Favorite Children’s Books
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liana Finck is a cartoonist and an illustrator who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2015. She...
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” t...
Kevin Young on His Book “Night Watch,” Inspired by Death and Dante
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Young is the poetry editor for The New Yorker, and the author of many books of his own poetry....
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel woul...
Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override”
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Tweedy is best known as the front man of Wilco, the rock band he formed in Chicago in 1994. In ...
Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation, analysis, and commentary circulated all summer, after the announcement, in June, that A...
Fred Armisen on “100 Sound Effects”
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound. He’s a former punk musician and a master of accen...
Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The term “culture wars” is most often associated with issues of sexuality, race, religion, and g...
How Extreme Heat Affects the Body
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Korey Stringer Institute, at the University of Connecticut, is named after an N.F.L. player who ...
How Big Tech Sets the Agenda in Trump’s America
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is the most tech-friendly President in American history. He enlisted social media to wi...
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mohammed R. Mhawish was living in Gaza City during Israel’s invasion, in the immediate aftermath o...
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on a Reunion Making “Highest 2 Lowest”
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington first worked together on “Mo’ Better Blues,” released in 1990....
Richard Brody Picks Three Favorite Clint Eastwood Films
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With seven decades in film and television, Clint Eastwood is undeniably a Hollywood institution. Eme...
Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies...
Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together”
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jamaica Kincaid began writing for The New Yorker in 1974, reporting about life in the magazine’s h...
John Brennan, Former C.I.A. Director, on Being Targeted by Trump
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Donald Trump’s first term, he was furious that people were investigating his connections to Rus...
Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the end of the Cold War, most Americans have taken U.S. military supremacy for granted. We can...
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share i...
Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is go...
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt Over Jeffrey Epstein
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash fr...
Carrie Brownstein on Cat Power. Plus, “Materialists,” “Too Much,” and the Modern Rom-Com.
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For The New Yorker’s series Takes, Carrie Brownstein—the co-creator of Sleater-Kinney and “Por...
Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy. Plus, Susan B. Glasser on Why “We Are the Boiled Frog.”
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conservative economics, cuts to social services are often seen as necessary to shrink the expandi...
Kalief Browder: A Decade Later
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kalief Browder was jailed at Rikers Island at the age of sixteen; he spent three years locked up wit...
U2’s Bono on the Power of Music
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, The New Yorker published a personal history about growing up in Ireland during the nineteen...
“Super Gay Poems”
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, Harvard University offered a course on Taylor Swift. It was popular, to say the least. That...
Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between Fox News and Donald Trump is not just close; it can be profoundly influenti...
America’s Oligarch Problem
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A mega-donor to the Republican Presidential campaign, Elon Musk got something no other titan of indu...
Why Israel Struck Iran First
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ayatollahs who have ruled Iran since 1979 have long promised to destroy the Jewish state, and ev...
The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker recently published a report from Sudan, headlined “Escape from Khartoum.” The con...
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barbra Streisand has been a huge presence in American entertainment—music, film, and stage—for m...
John Seabrook on the Destructive Family Battles of “The Spinach King”
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Seabrook’s new book is about a family business—not a mom-and-pop store, but a huge operatio...
What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Donald Trump made an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he brought vaccine skepticism and th...
Brian Eno Knows “What Art Does”
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the music business, Brian Eno is a name to conjure with. He’s been the producer of tremendous h...
Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lesley Stahl, a linchpin of CBS News, began at the network in 1971, covering major events such as Wa...
Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game; Plus, Remembering the Composer of “Annie”
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In honor of The New Yorker’s centennial this year, the magazine’s staff writers are pulling out ...
Cécile McLorin Salvant Performs Live In-Studio
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nearly a year ago, a Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, moderated by Jake Tappe...
Percival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trus...
A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic instit...
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Elon Musk, who’s chainsawing the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometim...
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the sto...
Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and i...
A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding...
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Emily Nussbaum introduced Alan Cumming at the New Yorker Festival, she said, “Plenty of actor...
Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Democrats in Washington have seemed almost paralyzed by the onslaught of far-right appointments and ...
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Staff writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable w...
The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The film “No Other Land” has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. I...
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The staff writer Dana Goodyear has reported on California extensively: the entertainment industry; a...
How “Saturday Night Live” Reinvented Television, Fifty Years Ago
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“Saturday Night Live” turns fifty this year. Profiling its executive producer, Lorne Michaels, t...
The Political Scene: Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Washington Roundtable—with the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos—di...
Antony Blinken’s Exit Interview
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Representative Ro Khanna of California is in the Democrats’ Congressional Progressive Caucus. And ...
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Introducing Julianne Moore at the New Yorker Festival, in October, the staff writer Michael Schulman...
The Art of Cooking with Ina Garten
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. A...
Christmas in Tehran During the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1979, as Christmas approached, the United States Embassy in Tehran held more than fifty American ...
Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu”
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
James Taylor’s songs are so familiar that they seem to have always existed. Onstage at the New Yor...
From the Archive: St. Vincent’s Seduction
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Reco...