The Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg on Coming Out: “I Realized I Couldn’t Go On Like That Forever”
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During an exit interview with President Barack Obama in November, 2016, just weeks after the electio...
How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Radden Keefe has reported on the Sackler family and their control of Purdue Pharma, the make...
Has the Mueller Report Changed Anything?
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Mueller investigation has been a two-year obsession for nearly everyone who cares about politics...
U.K. Edges Closer to the Cliff of a No-Deal Brexit
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since the minute that British citizens voted, in a 2016 referendum, to leave the European Union, con...
Emilia Clarke on a Near-Death Experience Scarier than “Game of Thrones”
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia Clarke was an unknown young actor when she landed the part of Daenerys, of the House of Targa...
The Hot Fashion Trends in Silicon Valley, and the Top Chef Niki Nakayama
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being a place where young geniuses are too busy disrupting the w...
Getting Detained by ICE—on Purpose
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, two young activists from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance went on an undercover missio...
American Exiles in East Africa (Part 2)
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pete O’Neal was a street hustler and small-time pimp who gave up crime to fight oppression, found...
American Exiles in East Africa
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pete O’Neal was a street hustler and small-time pimp who gave up crime to struggle against oppress...
Jane Mayer on the Revolving Door Between Fox News and the White House
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has made no secret of his great admiration for Fox News -- which he praises by tweet ne...
A Moderate Republican Wants to Primary Donald Trump in 2020
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is launching what looks like a political suicide mission...
A Writer Solves a Mystery, and Ruth E. Carter Steps into the Spotlight
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Committed during a period filled with bombings, killings, and disappearances, the murder of Jean McC...
What Are We Talking About When We Talk about Socialism?
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With the election to the House of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, following up on the su...
Teju Cole on Blackface and Valeria Luiselli on the Border Crisis
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When depictions of Virginia politicians in blackface surfaced this month, the New Yorker contributor...
To Stop the Shooting, Lupe Cruz Gets Between the People with the Guns
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations about gun reform are often galvanized by catastrophic mass shootings. But gun violence...
Is the Tide Turning on Gun Reform?
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the House held hearings on gun violence, the first in eight years. In the 2018 elections,...
Marlon James Builds His Own Damn Universe
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When the cast of the film “The Hobbit” was first announced, Marlon James was dismayed—though h...
The Mueller Investigation: What We Know So Far
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Washington is abuzz with rumors that the Mueller report is coming soon, and both sides are trying to...
John Thompson vs. American Justice
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that it was because he had sold drug...
Jason Rezaian on Imprisonment in Iran
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rezaian was born in California to an Iranian father and an American mother. After a failed ef...
The Fall of a Chinese Pop Star, and Calvin Trillin’s Happy Marriage
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For some years, Denise Ho was one of the most popular singers in Asia. A Hong Kong native, she perfo...
The Producer dream hampton Talks with Jelani Cobb about “Surviving R. Kelly”
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, it’s been an open secret that R. Kelly has allegedly kept young women trapped in abus...
For a French Burglar, Stealing Masterpieces Is Easier Than Selling Them
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Vjeran Tomic has been stealing since he was a small child, when he used a ladder to break into a lib...
How “The Apprentice” Made Donald Trump, and a Boondoggle in Wisconsin
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe has reported on “The Apprentice” and its impact on Donald ...
The Director Boots Riley on “Sorry to Bother You”
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Boots Riley’s directorial début, “Sorry to Bother You,” blends a dark strain of comedy with a...
Live: Janet Mock and Chris Hayes
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside th...
Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth died in May at the age of eighty-five. In novels lik...
Christmas Music Reimagined with Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots
23 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kirk Douglas, the guitarist for the Roots, plays anything and everything as part of the “Tonight S...
2018 in Pop Culture
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The New Yorker staff writers Jia Tolentino, Doreen St. Félix, and Alexandra Schwartz all cover the ...
Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In December of 2015, a video appeared on the Internet that stunned surfers worldwide. Titled “Kell...
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As he set about adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage—the play opened this week on Br...
Robyn Talks with David Remnick
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the past twenty-five years, since she was a young teen-ager, the singer Robyn has been on the cu...
Helen Rosner Ferments at Home, Plus Dexter Filkins on Saudi Arabia
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hot trends in the food world is one of the oldest: fermentation. No longer just for beer ...
Voter Suppression in the Twenty-First Century
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the November midterm elections, Stacey Abrams, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, arrived at h...
Bridget Everett Talks with Michael Schulman
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Appearing at the New Yorker Festival, in conversation with Michael Schulman , Bridget Everett brough...
Jim Carrey Doesn’t Exist (According to Jim Carrey)
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a young boy, Jim Carrey got in trouble for staring in the mirror. He didn’t do it because he wa...
The Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, the Mexican government finally agreed to extradite the notorious drug kingpin El Chapo to...
The Countdown to Brexit, Plus Adam Gopnik’s Turkey Zen
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
More than two years after British voters approved a measure to withdraw their nation from the Europe...
After the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy Was Fracked Up
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act injected almost nine hundred billion dollars into the U.S...
The Financial Crash and the Climate Crisis
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years after the financial crash of 2008, the economy is humming along, with steady growth and ri...
Derek Smalls—Harry Shearer’s Character in “Spinal Tap”—Returns with His Solo Début
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Harry Shearer is known for doing many characters, including Mr. Burns and others from “The Simpson...
From Mexico, the Reality of the Migrant Caravan
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Blitzer spent a week in Mexico with the so-called caravan—a group of about five thousand ...
Janelle Monáe, from the Future to the Present
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Janelle Monáe is an unlikely pop star. Her music is rooted in soul and R. & B., but also in pop, pu...
Daniel Radcliffe Gets His Facts Straight, and Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Politics
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The actor Daniel Radcliffe is on Broadway in a new play called “The Lifespan of a Fact”—perhap...
Kelela Reinvents R. & B., and Sally Yates Gets Fired
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the acting Attorney General Sally Yates wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she ...
In the Midterms, White Supremacy Is Running for Office
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
While the big story going into the midterm elections has been the possibility of a “blue wave”—...
Joan Baez Is Still Protesting
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“You know, I think as I get older,” Joan Baez tells David Remnick, “someone will show me a pho...
Is Voting Safe?
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For democracy to function, we have to trust and accept the results of elections. But that trust is i...
The Long-Distance Con, Part 2
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can be heard here. On the day that Maggie Robinso...
Rebecca Traister Is Happy to Be Mad
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After the election of Donald Trump, the feminist journalist Rebecca Traister began channeling her an...
Joan Jett’s Reputation
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Jett cut a massive figure in rock and roll, starting in the nineteen-seventies and continuing w...
The Long-Distance Con, Part 1
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On the day that Maggie Robinson Katz learned that her father had only a few days to live, she also f...
Into the Woods with Scott Carrier
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a thirty-year lobbying effort, Congress designated the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail...
Lisa Brennan-Jobs on the Shadow of Steve Jobs, and Jill Lepore on the Long Sweep of American History
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir, “Small Fry,” shares a common theme with many memoirs: the absent p...
Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before she published “Silent Spring,” one of the most influential books of the last century, Rac...
Illeana Douglas Steps Forward
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The day after The New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s exposé about Harvey Weinstein, Farrow got a...
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Complications of Identity
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of leading thinkers on identity. A professor of philosophy and law at Ne...
Parenting While Deported
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Idalia and Arnold came to this country nearly two decades ago, from Honduras. They settled in a smal...
Rev. Franklin Graham Offers an Evangelist’s View of Donald Trump
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Like his father, Rev. Billy Graham, before him, Rev. Franklin Graham is one of the nation’s most p...
For a Palestinian Candidate, a Contested Election in Jerusalem
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ramadan Dabash is a civil engineer and a mukhtar—an Arab community leader—in his neighborhood o...
David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Simon is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in “The Deuce,” which will return to HB...
An N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Blows the Whistle on Quotas
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sergeant Edwin Raymond is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of New York City police o...
Three Actors Explain What It Means to be “Presidential”
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
During the lead-up to the 2016 election, three actors who have played fictional Presidents of the Un...
Seth Meyers Talks with Ariel Levy
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Meyers—a veteran of “Saturday Night Live” and the host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth...
David Remnick on Aretha Franklin
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Aretha Franklin brought Barack Obama to tears when she performed “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natur...
Weeding with Parker Posey
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Parker Posey has been a vivid presence in American film, especially indie film, for twenty-five year...
Lee Child, “Moby-Dick,” and Other Summer Reads
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We delve into the escapist joys of a great summer read. David Remnick talks with Lee Child, whose th...
William Finnegan Surfing, and Kristen Roupenian Among the Pilgrims
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
William Finnegan’s memoir, “Barbarian Days,” from 2015, holds the distinction of being the one...
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their to...
Tommy Orange and the Urban Native Experience
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tommy Orange had never read a book about what it means to be a Native American in a big city. In a c...
Helsinki Fallout
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent summit in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin proposed that, in exchange for letting Robert Muell...
Thomas McGuane and Callan Wink Go Fishing
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas McGuane, the acclaimed author of “The Sporting Club,” thinks fiction set in the American ...
Philip Roth’s American Portraits and American Prophecy
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth died in May at the age of eighty-five. In novels lik...
The Rezneck Riders
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Navajo Nation covers over twenty-seven thousand square miles in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico; i...
Brazil, Bruce Lee, and Black Lives in the Music of Kamasi Washington, and the Uncertain Future of the Democratic Party
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Wallace-Wells provides a survey of some key midterm races and considers what they tell us a...
Love, War, and the Magical Lamb-Brain Sandwiches of Aleppo, Syria
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Adam Davidson was a reporter in Baghdad during the Iraq War, he started dating a fellow-reporte...
Tina Brown on Vanity Fair, the Eighties, and Harvey Weinstein
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Brown is a legend in New York publishing. She was barely thirty years old when she was recruite...
Naomi Klein Interviewed by Jia Tolentino
03 Jul 2018
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The author of “No Logo” and “The Shock Doctrine,” Naomi Klein has become what Noam Chomsky w...
Hasan Minhaj Interviewed by Vinson Cunningham
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On a high-school speech-and-debate team, Hasan Minhaj learned the value of a joke: “If I made the ...
Molly Ringwald, Judd Apatow, and #MeToo
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The John Hughes films that made Molly Ringwald famous—“Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,”...
The Government Took Her Son. Will It Give Him Back?
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Border Patrol, which has forcibly separated families in border detention, has put some immigrant chi...
The Comedian Hannah Gadsby Goes Big Time, and Renounces Comedy
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Gadsby is a headlining comedian in Australia, a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and...
James Wood Is Done “Prosecuting Wars”
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Mayer explains why Charles and David Koch are willing to spend as much as thirty million dollar...
In the Civil Service, Loyalty Now Comes Before Expertise
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump came into office promising to make so many cuts to the government that “your head wil...
Another Fiasco for American Soccer, and Praying for Tangier
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 2018 World Cup begins this week in Russia, and America is taking a powder. The men’s team fail...
Anthony Bourdain’s Interview with David Remnick
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Bourdain—the chef turned author, food anthropologist, and television star—died this week...
Angélique Kidjo and David Byrne on “Remain in Light”
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When a young Amanda Petrusich, now a staff writer who covers music, first heard Talking Heads’ “...
Glenda Jackson Onstage, and Marco Rubio on “Modernizing” Conservatism
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Glenda Jackson, who has played both Queen Elizabeth and King Lear, served as a humble member of Parl...
Malcolm Gladwell on the Sociology of School Shooters
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Gladwell spoke with The New Yorker’s Dorothy Wickenden in 2015 about the social dynamics o...
Paul Schrader: Movies as Religion
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Schrader made an auspicious début as the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and the director of...
The Breeders on Sexism, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, the original members of the Breeders—indie-rock royalty—are back together, twenty-fiv...
Diplomacy on the Rocks in Iran and North Korea
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman...
Dunya Mikhail on the Lives Stolen by ISIS
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before she was placed on the list of Saddam Hussein’s enemies, the poet Dunya Mikhail worked as a ...
How to Contain the Threat of Russia
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Senator Mark Warner is the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is trying to ex...
Glenn Close Doesn’t Play Evil (with One Exception)
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Glenn Close was on Broadway as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” reprising a role ...
Robert Caro on the Fall of New York
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a career spanning more than forty years, the biographer Robert Caro has written about only two su...
Apocalypse Prepping, on a Budget
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, Patricia Marx ...
ICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a reporter looks at a rural town where the largest immigration raid in a decade has rippe...
Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer Day”
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Andrew Andrew Sean Greer's novel "Less" won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. "Less" ...
James Comey Makes His Case to America
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a long career in law enforcement, the former F.B.I. Director James Comey aimed to be above politi...