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The New Yorker
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PublisherNew York, NY
Since 1925.
389 Posts
The Peculiar Delights of the Enormous Cicada Emergence
As loud as leaf blowers, as miraculous as math, the insects are set to overtake the landscape. By Rivka Galchen Their parents passed away thirteen, or maybe seventeen, years ago. They grow up alone, hidden in tunnels of their own making, nursing from the rootlets of trees. In those The New Yorker Wins Two 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
The staff writer Sarah Stillman was honored for reporting on a draconian legal doctrine, and the first-time contributor Medar de la Cruz was recognized for an illustrated piece about Rikers Island. Two works published by The New Yorker received Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, placing t There Was a Model for Luka Dončić. Now He’s Broken It
For years, the Dallas Mavericks star was compared to James Harden, whose footsteps he seemed to follow. But Dončić plays with a different kind of freedom. By Louisa Thomas Six months ago, James Harden sat in front of reporters at a cramped press conference, his first since being tr What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying. By Eric Lach Imagine a trial scene at the end of a Mob movie, with a wood-panelled courtroom and a white-hai The English Apple Is Disappearing
As the country loses its local cultivars, an orchard owner and a group of biologists are working to record and map every variety of apple tree they can find in the West of England. By Sam Knight In June, 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, an English rector, collector of folk songs, and aut A Generation of Distrust
Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions. By Jay Caspian Kang The student-protest encampment at the University of California, Berkeley, sits on the steps of Sproul Hall. Sixt How to Defend or Prosecute Donald Trump
In the early days of the trial, lawyers on both sides have started to reveal their strategies. Will the jury believe that Trump’s sordid acquisition of the White House was political business as usual? By Eric Lach Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is about adultery, greed, How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans?
The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it. By Isaac Chotiner At the end of April, David Satterfield, the Biden Administration’s envoy for humanitarian aid in the Middle East, announced that the flow of food and medicine Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund?
The hybrid media-finance company wants to monetize investigative journalism in the public interest. Is it a visionary game changer or a cynical ploy? By Clare Malone Five days before the launch of Hunterbrook Media, one of its founders, Sam Koppelman, sat outside an East Village co The Surprising Rise of Latin American Evangelical Missionaries
A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries. By Graciela Mochkofsky The Brazilian journalist Adriana Carranca was on a reporting trip to Afghanistan in 2008, seven years after the U.S. invasion, when she heard about a married couple from her home c Elliott Abrams and the Contradictions of U.S. Human-Rights Policy
The longtime State Department official and Iran-Contra player on Israel’s war in Gaza and his own record in Latin America. By Isaac Chotiner For more than four decades, Elliott Abrams has been near the center of American foreign policy. Abrams was an Assistant Secretary of State in How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans
The congresswoman is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy? By David D. Kirkpatrick When Marjorie Taylor Greene first entered politics, she was hardly a natural at fund-raising. She was the owner of a CrossFit gym—and a construction company Does the “Hot Hand” Exist in Hockey?
Nearly every hockey fan and player will tell you that, when the playoffs arrive, you have to go with the goalie who’s on a roll. Are they right? By Louisa Thomas Last year, after the Boston Bruins lost to the Florida Panthers, 7–5, in Game Six of the first round of the Stanley Cup Could “Mind the Game” Change the Way Sports Are Covered?
The podcast, co-hosted by J. J. Redick and LeBron James, combines analytical commentary with an insider’s perspective—and bypasses traditional media. By Jay Caspian Kang There comes a time in every sportswriter’s career when they realize they have no idea what they’re talking about What Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means for Donald Trump’s Trial
The legal issue behind Weinstein’s successful appeal is also at the heart of the former President’s hush-money case. By Ronan Farrow On Thursday morning, a divided New York State Court of Appeals overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sex crimes and ordered a new trial. The Biden Administration’s Plan to Make American Homes More Efficient
New building codes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development are the latest addition to a long list of Earth Week environmental wins for the White House. By Bill McKibben In recent days, the Biden Administration has been on a remarkable roll when it comes to the environm Mastering the Art of Making a Cookbook
Working with Julia Child and a host of author-chefs, the editor Judith Jones transformed American kitchens. By Adam Gopnik “What is that you so beautifully do?” Henry James is said to have once asked someone, somewhere or other. And for no tribe of workers does the question make mo In Search of Lost Flavors in Flushing
Rediscovering the tastes of childhood in New York’s biggest Chinatown. By Jiayang Fan To get from Manhattan to Flushing by public transport, your best bet is the 7 train, though chances are it won’t be your only train. If you live downtown, like me, but hanker for candied hawthorn Donald Trump Is Being Ritually Humiliated in Court
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person. By Eric Lach It’s cold in the courtroom where Donald Trump is on trial. “Judge, is it possi The G.O.P.’s Election-Integrity Trap
Donald Trump has spent years arguing that mail-in voting is fraudulent and corrupt. Now the Republican National Committee, which sees mail-in voting as essential, must persuade his base to embrace it. By Antonia Hitchens Last week, while Trump sat in a courtroom in downtown Manhatt
