Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, the attorney Jonathan Mitchell has become a crucial figure in the anti-abortion mov...
A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Wome...
Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun, Plus Bryan Washington
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun recently released her fourth album, called “Proof of Life.” R...
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dexter Filkins has reported on conflict situations around the world, and recently spent months repor...
From “On the Media”: Seditious Conspiracy
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On January 6th, 2021, “On the Media” reporter Micah Loewinger recorded the secret communications...
The New York Times’ Publisher on the Future of Journalism, and the Poet Paul Tran
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past several years, as more democratic institutions and norms have come under attack, many ...
A Gay Russian, Exiled in Ireland
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evgeny Shtorn and Alexander Kondakov were living together in St. Petersburg when Vladimir Putin bega...
Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, says that AI is a powerful tool that will streamli...
The Director Rob Marshall on Halle Bailey as “The Little Mermaid”
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The live-action remake of Disney’s classic “The Little Mermaid” is out this weekend. The perfo...
E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan on Defamatory Trump, and Dexter Filkins on Ron DeSantis
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, E Jean Carroll won an unprecedented legal victory: in a civil suit, Donald Trump...
Jill Lepore on the Joy of Gardening
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the time of year when many people feel an overpowering urge to dig—to plant their back yard...
Behind the Scenes with Tom Hanks
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Hanks has been a constant presence on the American movie screen for forty years. He has played a...
How Climate Change Is Impacting Our Mental Health
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit will go to trial in Montana. The case, Held v. Montana, centers...
Michael Schulman on the Writers’ Strike, and Samantha Irby with Doreen St. Félix
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike ...
Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A troubling question looms over the Kriegskinder, Germans who were children during the Second World ...
Have State Legislatures Gone Rogue? And Joshua Yaffa on Evan Gershkovich
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headli...
King Charles III Takes the Throne
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On May 6th, King Charles will become the oldest person to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom. H...
Harry Belafonte, the Pioneering Artist-Activist
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We take it for granted that entertainers can—and probably should—advocate for the causes they be...
The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—raili...
The Bipartisan Effort to Rein in Presidential Military Power
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President ...
Jane Mayer on Justice Clarence Thomas, and the Music Critic Hanif Abdurraqib on Concert Merch
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas—the island-h...
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse on “The Thanksgiving Play,” Broadway’s New Comedy of White Wokeness
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise...
What’s Behind the Bipartisan Attack on TikTok?
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gain...
The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for year...
Israel on the Brink: Understanding the Judicial Overhaul, and the Protests Against It
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed law changing the judiciary is described as a reform. ...
Brooke Shields on the Sexualization of Girls in Hollywood
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteen-seventies and into the eighties, Brooke Shields was one of the most famous and ...
Jon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a b...
Who Was H. G. Carrillo? D. T. Max on a Novelist Whose Fictions Went Too Far
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
H. G. Carrillo was a writer’s writer—not a household name, but esteemed in literary circles. He ...
Jia Tolentino on the Ozempic Weight-Loss Craze
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The prescription drug Ozempic was designed to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their disease,...
How the Culture Wars Came to the Catholic Church
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The pontificate of Pope Francis, which just reached its tenth year, has brought a greater willingnes...
What if the Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action?
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears like...
Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside th...
Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view ...
Introducing: “In The Dark”
09 Mar 2023
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“In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The N...
Chloe Bailey on Working Solo; and the Lost New Jersey Photos of Cartier-Bresson
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When they were just thirteen and eleven years old, sisters Chloe and Halle Bailey started posting vi...
The Russian Activist Maria Pevchikh on the Fate of Alexey Navalny, and the Future of Russia
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well before launching the horrifying campaign against Ukraine a year ago, Vladimir Putin had been un...
Stephanie Hsu on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; and the 2023 Brody Awards
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in a genre all its own, and is an extremely unlikely favo...
The Pandemic at Three: Who Got it Right?
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its fourth year, we can begin to gain some clarity on which coun...
Angela Bassett on Playing Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda of Wakanda
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been almost three decades since Angela Bassett emerged in Hollywood as a “totem of empowere...
A Year of the War in Ukraine
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the year since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians have shown incredible fortitude on the battlefield...
Martin McDonagh Talks with Patrick Radden Keefe
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin McDonagh burst onto the London theatre scene as a young playwright in the nineteen-nineties. ...
Chuck D on How Hip-Hop Changed the World
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago, Chuck D showed listeners how exciting, radical, and unpredictable hip-hop could be....
Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty-four years ago, the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling fo...
Bonnie Raitt Talks with David Remnick
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You couldn’t write a history of American music without a solid chapter on Bonnie Raitt. From her r...
The Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even withi...
What Exactly Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did It Become so Powerful?
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many on the right blame “wokeness” for all of America’s ills—everything from deadly mass sho...
Michael Schulman on Oscars History, and a Visit with “Annie” Composer Charles Strouse
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite years of controversy, the Academy Awards and the other awards shows remain must-watch televi...
A Local Paper First Sounded the Alarm on George Santos. Nobody Listened.
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
George Santos is hardly the first scammer elected to office—but his lies, David Remnick says, are ...
Deepti Kapoor Discusses “Age of Vice” with Parul Sehgal
17 Jan 2023
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Deepti Kapoor describes New Delhi, the setting of her novel “Age of Vice” as “extremely beauti...
In Politics, How Old Is Too Old?
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t so long ago that Ronald Reagan was considered over the hill, too old to govern. Now a si...
The Photographer Who Documented a Long-Forgotten Pan-African Festival
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forty-six years ago, a young photographer named Marilyn Nance got the opportunity of a lifetime. A s...
Bob Woodward on His Trump Tapes
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Woodward is not one to editorialize. But, during his interviews with Donald Trump at the time of...
“Giselle,” and What to Do with the Problematic Past – Part II
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the renowned choreographer Akram Khan was commissioned to update the classic “Giselle” for ...
What to Do with the Problematic Past, Part I
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We draw meaning and comfort from traditions, but when the world changes, traditions can stop reflect...
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate in 2017, at the beginning of the fierce partisan divide of th...
Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the guitarist for the Roots, the band for “The Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and...
An Audiobook Master on the Secrets of Her Craft
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve probably never heard of Robin Miles, but you may well have heard her—possibly at some len...
Ina Garten: Cooking Is Hard; Plus an Essay from Susan Orlean
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. A...
The poet John Lee Clark Translates the DeafBlind Experience to the Page
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of...
Politico’s Mathias Döpfner, and Sam Knight Reports from Qatar
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The staff writer Sam Knight was in Qatar recently, reporting on the World Cup, where, despite years ...
Is Our Democracy Safe?
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s midterm elections were widely seen as a victory for democracy in the United States. El...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Elections
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
J. Michael Luttig is a retired judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and a prominent legal mind in cons...
Why Christine Baranski Fought the Good Fight
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The veteran stage and screen actress Christine Baranski first became a household name thanks to her ...
Quinta Brunson, a “Child of the Internet,” Revives the Sitcom
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Quinta Brunson made a name for herself as a master of meme comedy and is a self-described “child o...
Unpacking the Latino Vote, and Susan Orlean on the Queen of Tigers
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections, many pundits expected Republicans to make signifi...
The Stories of #MeToo
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Five years ago, reporting on the film producer Harvey Weinstein’s history of assault and misconduc...
How Qatar Took the World Cup
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No self-respecting sports fan is naïve about the role that money plays in pro sports. But, by any s...
Safia Elhillo on Vulnerability and Anger in “Girls That Never Die”
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The poet Safia Elhillo first found her voice onstage, performing in youth poetry slams in Washington...
The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good hea...
Mike White on the New Season of “The White Lotus” in Sicily
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first season of “The White Lotus” won ten Emmy Awards and was a critics’ favorite. A dark ...
Russell Moore on Christian Nationalism
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Moore, a prominent figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, resigned over the church’s r...
Mayor Francis Suarez’s View from Miami
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, is popular in the city he governs, and increasingly p...
U2’s Bono Talks with David Remnick—Live
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, The New Yorker published a Personal History about growing up in Ireland during the ninet...
The Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh, Live at The New Yorker Festival
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s New Yorker Festival featured two conversations with renowned playwrights: Suzan-Lori P...
The Vulnerabilities of our Voting Machines, and How to Secure Them
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The security of voting has become a huge topic of concern. That’s especially true after 2020, when...
In Defense of the Comic Novel: Andrew Sean Greer Talks “Less is Lost”
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Less is a novelist—a “minor American novelist,” to be precise. He’s a man whose bigge...
Tom Stoppard on “Leopoldstadt,” and Geena Davis talks with Michael Schulman
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Stoppard has been a fixture on Broadway since his famous early play, “Rosencrantz and Guildens...
The New Abortion Underground
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the contributor Stephania Taladrid has been following a network o...
Major Decisions Ahead for the Supreme Court
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In its last term, the Supreme Court dropped bombshell after bombshell—marking major conservative a...
Joshua Yaffa on What’s Next for Ukraine
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The contributor Joshua Yaffa, who was based in Moscow for years and has been reporting from Ukraine ...
Billy Eichner on “Bros” and Joyce Carol Oates on “Blonde”
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the first queer rom-coms released in cinemas by a major studio, “Bros” is making movie hi...
Why Play Music: A Conversation with Questlove and Maggie Rogers
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, two acclaimed musicians—Questlove and Maggie Rogers—joined The New Yorker’...
Roger Federer on Retirement and His Evolution in Tennis
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Federer is playing the last professional tennis match of his career this week. It’s the end ...
Will Voter Suppression Become the Law?
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now seven weeks away, the midterms are often cast as a referendum on the President and his party. Bu...
Andy Borowitz, and the Hunt for Invasive Lionfish
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not only are we living in a time where people are proud of their ignorance, argues the writer and co...
How Sheryl Lee Ralph Is Reshaping Hollywood
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sheryl Lee Ralph has been a staple of Black entertainment for decades. She played Deena Jones in the...
Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools effectively ...
Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Q...
Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At The New Yorker Festival, Dave Grohl talked with Kelefa Sanneh about Grohl’s recent book, “The...
A New Civil War in America?
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the F.B.I. raid on former President Donald Trump’s home, Mar-A-Lago, the phrases “civil wa...
The Actor Jenifer Lewis: Mother, Activist, Hurricane
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jenifer Lewis is known as the “Mother of Black Hollywood” for good reason; her screen progeny ha...
What’s Driving Black Candidates to the Republican Party?
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Republican Party has recently attracted an almost unprecedented number of Black candidates to it...
Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Gaiman, one of the great fantasy writers of our time, first started writing his comic series “...
Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Electric cars, compared to cars with internal-combustion engines, are nearly silent, which can prese...
Elizabeth Kolbert on a Historic Climate Bill, Plus a Lesson from Kansas
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Inflation Reduction Act now before Congress is being celebrated as the most important piece of c...
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of the city of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty...
Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim captured national headlines. The young girl was f...
Notes from a Warming World
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the globe has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent heat waves that seem increasingly ...
Jamie Raskin on the Facts of January 6th, and the Danger Ahead
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, serves on Congress’s Select Committee to Investigate the J...
Jason Isbell on Songwriting While Sober
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Isbell got into the music business early; he had a publishing deal when he was twenty-one. But...