The New YorkerJoe Biden What to Expect in the Democratic DebatesThe New Yorker - John CassidyWith the 2020 Iowa caucuses more than seven months away, it may seem absurd to say that the stakes are very high for Wednesday’s and Thursday’s televised Democratic debates, but it’s true. So far, the
The New YorkerAlzheimer's Disease Your New Generalized-Anxiety Home-Security SystemThe New Yorker - Riane KoncHello, and thank you for your recent purchase of a Generalized-Anxiety Home-Security System. The Generalized-Anxiety Home-Security System is one of the most popular products on the market, with forty customers
The New YorkerPolitics What Should Democrats Do to Help Children at the Border?The New Yorker - Isaac ChotinerOn Tuesday, as the Trump Administration returned a hundred children to dangerously neglectful conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, and announced the resignation of the acting head of
The New YorkerBooks The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay CrimeThe New Yorker - Caleb CrainFifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law. In the bad old days, newspapers rarely mentioned gay men except in a certain kind of true-crime
The New YorkerU.S. Border Patrol Children Remain in Dangerous Conditions on the Texas BorderThe New Yorker - Isaac ChotinerOn Monday, after reports that hundreds of children were being held in horrific conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, the federal government announced that most of the children were being
The New YorkerZion Williamson The Evolution of N.B.A.-Draft FashionThe New Yorker - Troy PattersonLast week, Zion Williamson, turning himself out for the occasion of his selection, by the New Orleans Pelicans, as the top pick in the N.B.A. draft, made an auspicious professional début as a man of style.
The New YorkerIvana Trump E. Jean Carroll’s Accusation Against Donald Trump, and the Raising, and Lowering, of the BarThe New Yorker - Jia TolentinoOne of the things I have feared most since the night of the 2016 election is the inevitable hardening of my own heart—and what such hardening might lead to, especially if it were experienced by many other
The New YorkerFBI The Espionage Act and a Growing Threat to Press FreedomThe New Yorker - Jameel JafferThe Justice Department’s recent indictment of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has alarmed press-freedom advocates, with even some of Assange’s fiercest critics warning that the government has
The New YorkerBette Midler Bette Midler Looks Back on Her Autobiographical, Fantastical Children’s Book, “The Saga of Baby Divine”The New Yorker - Rachel SymeFor Bette Midler, the early nineteen-eighties was a period of searching. Her début studio album, “The Divine Miss M,” from 1972, had catapulted her from cult lounge singer to national star, and the record’s
The New YorkerSwimwear Proper Uses for a One-Piece Swimsuit with the Stomach Cut OutThe New Yorker - Ginny HoganIf you wear a one-piece swimsuit with the stomach cut out, someone may make fun of you, in which case you will punch them, and you will break your arm. Fortunately, your swimsuit doubles as a sling! The
The New YorkerJudith Krantz Revisiting Judith Krantz’s “Scruples,” a Novel with a Passion for ClothesThe New Yorker - Rachel SymeJudith Krantz always wanted to write fiction, but it was not until she was approaching fifty, in the late nineteen-seventies, that her husband, Steve, persuaded her to finally attempt a novel. Her career
The New YorkerThe Beatles Coming Up on the Beatles NetworkThe New Yorker - Glenn EichlerWelcome to the Beatles experience you’ve been waiting for, with the largest collection of Beatles recordings ever assembled.—SiriusXM.com, the Beatles Channel home page Thank you for being a loyal fan
The New YorkerPodcasting Emma Cline Reads “Son of Friedman”The New Yorker - Deborah TreismanEmma Cline reads her story from the July 1, 2019, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” was published in 2016. She is a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and was named one
The New YorkerCongo The Death of Simaro Lutumba Closes a Chapter of Congolese MusicThe New Yorker - Nicolas NiarchosWhen the Congolese musician Franco died of an illness believed to be AIDS, in October of 1989, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko declared four days of national mourning. Many of the members of Franco’s wildly
The New YorkerSupreme Leader of Iran Trump Sanctions Iran’s Supreme Leader, but to What End?The New Yorker - Robin WrightWith the flourish of his pen on Monday, President Trump imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as everyone in Khameini’s office or appointed by him. It was
The New YorkerTrump Administration ICE Agents Are Losing Patience with Trump’s Chaotic Immigration PolicyThe New Yorker - Jonathan BlitzerLast Monday, when President Trump tweeted that his Administration would stage nationwide immigration raids the following week, with the goal of deporting “millions of illegal aliens,” agents at Immigration
The New YorkerMarta Vieira da Silva World Cup 2019: There’s Not Going to Be a Marta ForeverThe New Yorker - Louisa ThomasDuring the 2015 Women’s World Cup, Marco Aurélio Cunha, then the women’s coördinator for the Confederation of Brazilian Football, gave an astonishing interview to Canada’s Globe and Mail. As the lead-up
The New YorkerRobin Wright BelligerenceThe New Yorker In “Belligerence,” Robin Wright delves into Donald Trump’s four options to rectify a crisis of his own making in Iran.
The New YorkerLil Nas X Lil Nas X Is the Sound of the Internet, SomehowThe New Yorker - Amanda Petrusich“Old Town Road,” a rap-influenced country song—or a country-influenced rap song, depending on your particular tilt—is presently en route to becoming the most significant commercial release of the decade.
The New YorkerHuman Trafficking The Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Victims of Human TraffickingThe New Yorker - Dorothy WickendenThe New Yorker contributor Jenna Krajeski recently met with a woman who calls herself Esperanza. In her home country, Esperanza was coerced and threatened into prostitution, and later was trafficked into
The New YorkerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez The Hills Have Eyes: Nü BeginningsThe New Yorker - Heather LoaseLetter from the U.K.Will Boris Johnson’s “Late-Night Altercation” Sink His Bid to Become Prime Minister? That Johnson is undisciplined, careless, and entitled could not be better known. That these qualities
The New YorkerPrinceton University The Threat of War Brings New Fears to an American Hostage in IranThe New Yorker - Laura DeanIn late August, 2016, three weeks after her husband, Xiyue Wang, disappeared in Iran, Hua Qu received a telephone call. She heard a prerecorded announcement in Farsi: “Dear caller, this is a phone call
The New YorkerMadonna Sandra Bernhard on Leaving Bitchy BehindThe New Yorker - Ariel LevyThe “Pose” actress and queer-TV trailblazer was embraced by the drag demimonde in her ferocious days but has a gentle vibe in person. “I miss seeing you on television!” an elderly woman named Renee squawked
The New YorkerEast Village Rent-Stabilized and Nervous in the East VillageThe New Yorker - Paige WilliamsTenants don’t mind Susan Schiffman seeing dust mops or sex toys when she photographs their spaces—just don’t ask what they pay in rent. Susan Schiffman, a photographer, grew up in Westchester, in a house
The New YorkerTyler Perry The Ecstatic Doubling of “A Strange Loop”The New Yorker - Vinson CunninghamMichael R. Jackson’s musical—in which a queer black musical-theatre writer is writing a musical about a queer black musical-theatre writer—can be harsh, but its lyrical cleverness helps it maintain an
The New YorkerS'Mores Singin’ in the Acid RainThe New Yorker - Patricia MarxWhat an exciting year 2058 has been for our third-grade class. Summer is just about to begin, and already we’ve seen a hundred and forty-eight days of rain and a lightning bolt that spelled “Wear a hat.”
