Anthony Hopkins on “The Father,” and Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At an age when many actors are slowing down or long retired, Anthony Hopkins has kept up a feverish ...
Atul Gawande on the COVID Vaccine, and Daniel Kaluuya on “Judas and the Black Messiah”
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Atul Gawande, the staff writer and public-health expert, talks with David Remnick about the progress...
Congressman Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy Raskin, a twenty-five-year-old law student, took his own life on New Year’s Eve, after a lon...
The People Who Will Decide Donald Trump's Fate on Facebook
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook created the Oversight Board to adjudicate high-level claims about what can and can’t be p...
The Supreme Court of Facebook
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook is at the center of the hottest controversies over freedom of speech, and its opaque, unacc...
Amanda Petrusich Talks with the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Petrusich describes herself as a “diehard fan” of folk music, but not when it feels preci...
Trump Closed the U.S. to Asylum Seekers. Will Biden Reopen It?
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Immediately after Inauguration, the Biden Administration began trying to unwind some of Donald Trump...
Kurt Vile Talks with Amanda Petrusich
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Vile—that’s his real name—helped found the rock band the War on Drugs. But he left that b...
William Barber, and the Question of Faith and Politics
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The North Carolina pastor William Barber, who spoke at the inaugural prayer service at the start of ...
Unearthing Entombed
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era, the early days of modern computers are growin...
Jane Mayer and Evan Osnos on the Balance of Power at the Start of the Biden Administration
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Donald Trump rated the least popular President in the span of modern polling, President Biden m...
How Far Has the F.B.I. Gone to Protect White Supremacy?
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s work on civil rights is celebrated as bringing about one of the ...
Donald Trump’s American Carnage Comes to Washington
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Mogelson and Susan B. Glasser report on the convulsions of Donald Trump’s final days in offic...
Questions about the Variant Virus, and Posthumous Albums by Pop Smoke and others
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is making its way around the world; in the U.S., it has been found in a...
Democrats Take the Senate, and a Mob Storms the Capitol
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 6th, pro-Trump fanatics stormed the Capitol, galvanized by the President’s claims that ...
Bruce Springsteen Talks with David Remnick
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Springsteen, an American music legend for more than four decades, published his autobiography,...
Atul Gawande and Andrew Bird Discuss the Art and Science of Cancer
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Atul Gawande is a New Yorker staff writer, a practicing surgeon, and an indie-music fan, and he love...
Lawrence Wright on How the Pandemic Response Went So Wrong
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine mark what we hope will be the beginning of the end of the gl...
Looking Back at an Unimaginable Year
25 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a cliché now, but by no means an overstatement, that the past twelve months have been unimag...
Bryant Terry “Blackifies” Fennel, and Ian Frazier Says Goodbye to 2020, in Verse
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bryant Terry is a chef, educator, food-justice activist, and cookbook author. He joined Helen Rosner...
The Republican Rift in Georgia, and the Protests Sweeping Nigeria
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the past month, a fracture has opened up in the G.O.P. between those who grudgingly accept Joe Bi...
The “Times Square Two” Fight to Clear Their Names
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As teens, in the nineteen-eighties, Eric Smokes and David Warren were arrested for the robbery and m...
Ayanna Pressley and Abigail Spanberger on the Rift in the Democratic Party
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In November, when the Democratic Party lost seats in the House and a hoped-for victory in the Senate...
Steve McQueen Comes Home
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steve McQueen is the director of four feature films, including the Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave...
Atul Gawande on Taming the Coronavirus
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can a vaccine be distributed fairly? What will be the impact if a large number of people don’t tak...
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other...
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past year in lockdown. He has ...
A Novel About a Secret Family, and Adam Gopnik on Being Old
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sanaë Lemoine’s début novel, “The Margot Affair,” is about a seventeen-year-old high-school ...
The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bil...
Steve Martin and Jerry Seinfeld, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Between the two of them, Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Martin have nearly a century of experience in the ...
Jane Mayer on the G.O.P.’s Post-Trump Game
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The President’s fantastical allegations about “illegal ballots” are being indulged by quite a ...
Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril, Then and Now
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the nineteen-thirties, authoritarian regimes were on the rise around the world—as they are agai...
A Chaotic Election Ends—Maybe?
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No matter the vote count, legal challenges and resistance in Washington continue to make this electi...
Trump in Review
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Presidency of Donald Trump has been unlike any other in America’s history. While many of his c...
Driving Through the Pandemic
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like a lifetime since the coronavirus pandemic transformed Americans’ daily lives, seven ...
The Future of Trumpism
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Lemann’s “The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump” explores what will happen to th...
Elvis Costello Talks with David Remnick
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elvis Costello’s thirty-first studio album, “Hey Clockface,” will be released this month. Reco...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen...
The Battle Over Portland
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the Presidential debate in September, Donald Trump was asked to denounce the white supremacis...
Anthony Fauci Then and Now, and the Writer-Director Radha Blank
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the moment that Donald Trump was leaving Walter Reed Hospital, not yet recovered from a case of C...
Marilynne Robinson on Faith, Love, and Politics
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Jack,” is the fourth to be set among the world and people of ...
The Election, as Seen from Swing States
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden leads the Presidential race in Pennsylvania by around ten per cent, according to most poll...
Keith Knight of “Woke,” and Jia Tolentino Picks Three
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Woke,” a new comedy on Hulu, is inspired by the life of its creator, Keith Knight. The show, wh...
Can a Newcomer Unseat Lindsey Graham? Plus, Carlos Lozada on “What Were We Thinking”
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jaime Harrison may seem like a long shot to become a South Carolina senator: he is a Black Democrat ...
Miranda July’s Uncomfortable Comedies, and a Toast to Roger Angell
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda July’s third feature film is “Kajillionaire,” a heist movie centered on a dysfunctiona...
An Election in Peril
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Presidential race is a battle for the soul and the future of the country—on this much, both p...
The Composer Richard Wagner and the Birth of the Movies
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The German composer Richard Wagner had an enormous influence not only on modern music but on artists...
What to Do with a Confederate Monument?
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Across the South and well beyond, cities and states have been removing their Confederate monuments, ...
N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft, and Jill Lepore on the End of a Pandemic
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
N. K. Jemisin has faced down a racist backlash to her success in the science-fiction community. But ...
Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This segment contains adult language. In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New...
Rick Perlstein on Goldwater, Reagan, and Trump
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Reaganland” is the new volume in Rick Perlstein’s long chronicle of the American conservative...
Everyone Knew Who Shot Ahmaud Arbery. Why Did the Killers Walk Free?
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It has been six months since Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, was shot by three white men while he ...
Will This Be Joe Biden’s F.D.R. Moment?
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos got the chance to...
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on HBO’s “Watchmen”
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HBO’s “Watchmen” was nominated for twenty-six Emmy Awards—more than any other show this ye...
Sarah Paulson, the Star of Netflix’s “Ratched”
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The actor Sarah Paulson has appeared in “12 Years a Slave,” “The People v. O. J. Simpson,” a...
Samantha’s Journey into the Alt-Right, and Back
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet ...
Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like interse...
The Documentary ICE Doesn’t Want You to See
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been given a broad mandate to round up undocumented immigra...
Isabel Wilkerson on America’s Caste System
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this moment of historical reckoning, many Americans are being introduced to concepts like interse...
Jeffrey Toobin Explores Donald Trump’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors”
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Mueller Report documented enough crimes and scandals in Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign a...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Violence in Chicago, and William Finnegan on the Power of Police Unions
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before she became the mayor of Chicago, last year, Lori Lightfoot spent nearly a decade working on p...
Black Italians Fight to Be Italian
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, most of us take it for granted that every person born on American soil is gran...
Emily Oster on Whether and How to Reopen Schools
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The decision about whether to reopen schools may determine children’s futures, the survival of tea...
Podcast Extra: André Holland on Shakespeare’s “Richard II”
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This summer, the Public Theatre, in New York, is putting on Shakespeare’s history play “Richard ...
The Perils Prison Reform, and the Vision of a Visually Impaired Artist
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, there has been a growing bipartisan demand to reduce the extraordinarily high...
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My generation was taught that the civil-rights movement ended in the sixties, and that the Civil Rig...
Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a ...
The State of the Biden Campaign
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden all but locked up the Democratic Presidential nomination just as the coronavirius crisis b...
Laura Marling, a Briton in Los Angeles
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The thirty-year-old British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has produced seven albums of dense but d...
Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2019 New Yorker Festival was the twentieth edition of the annual event, and it was particularly ...
Keeping Released Prisoners Safe and Sane
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starting this spring, many states began releasing some inmates from prisons and jails to try to redu...
Hilton Als’s Homecoming and the March for Queer Liberation
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1967, a young black boy in Brooklyn was shot in the back by a police officer. The w...
Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other...
Live at Home Part I: John Legend
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like everyone in the United States, John Legend has spent much of the past three months in lockdown....
The Supreme Court Weighs the End of DACA
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case with enormous repercussions: the Trump Ad...
Getting White People to Talk About Racism
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Floyd’s killing has prompted a national outcry and a wide reassessment of the ways in which...
Josephine Decker’s “Shirley”
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The film critic Richard Brody regards Josephine Decker as one of the best directors of her generatio...
Can Police Violence Be Curbed?
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep,” James Baldw...
Mark Cuban Wants to Save Capitalism from Itself
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Cuban identifies as a capitalist, but the billionaire investor, “Shark Tank” star, and Dall...
Life After Lockdown, and the Politics of Blaming China
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he...
Reading “The Plague” During a Plague, and Memorial Day by the Pool
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When schools were closed owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the English teacher Petria May did the m...
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-...
Perfume Genius Talks with Jia Tolentino, and Anthony Lane Examines Outbreaks in the Movies
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino has been following the artist Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume ...
Jill Lepore on How a Pandemic Ends
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Lepore discusses the “stay at home” campaigns that ran on radio stations during the polio y...
The Pandemic and Little Haiti, Plus Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more than fifteen years, the fiction writer Edwidge Danticat has called Miami’s Little Haiti h...
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, but it has the third-largest number of COVID-19 d...
The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc in America’s Prisons and Jails
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three months ago, Kai Wright, the host of WNYC’s the United States of Anxiety, joined David Remnic...
The Economic Fallout of COVID-19; plus Mike Birbiglia, and Chika
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As of the end of April, thirty million people have filed for unemployment as a result of the coronav...
Bonus Episode: Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As black people die from COVID-19 at disproportionate rates, the disease is highlighting health disp...
A City at the Peak of Crisis
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Experts predicted that Wednesday, April 15th would be a peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York Ci...
Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rac...
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert join David Remnick to talk about the twin crises of our time: th...
War and Peace and Pandemic, and Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contributor Yiyun Li is a fiction writer who also teaches creative writing at Princeton Univer...
Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Remnick on the hope and catharsis that he finds in New York City’s daily mass cheer, which c...
Exploitation in the Amazon
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, ignored the advice of his own health minister, a...
Why We Underestimated COVID-19, and DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the warnings of politicians and health-care professionals, many have failed to treat the cor...
Alcoholics Anonymous Goes Remote, and Jia Tolentino on Quarantine
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An old Alcoholics Anonymous slogan goes, “Seven days without an A.A. meeting makes one weak.” Bu...
E.R. Doctors on the COVID-19 Crisis, and the Politics of a Pandemic
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Across the country, doctors and nurses are being forced to care for an increasing number of COVID pa...
The Shock Wave of COVID-19
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the country to a standstill, David Remnick and New Yorker writers...
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their to...