Weird Weird Animals That I’m Upset I Didn’t Know About SoonerThe New Yorker - Mariah-Rose MarieThe SNL performers Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen, Kristen Wiig and others talk to David Remnick about their auditions. An illustrated guide to East Coast, West Coast, and Southern reactions, from nonchalance
Christopher Columbus Sunday Reading: The Remarkable Journeys of ExplorersThe New YorkerThere’s something compelling about journeying into the unknown. The promise of a new quest or an incredible expedition has inspired some of the world’s most famous explorers. This week, we’re bringing
Filmmaking An Extraordinary Performance at Metrograph: Zia Anger’s “My First Film”The New Yorker - Richard BrodyThere’s an extraordinary movie event taking place this weekend at Metrograph: “My First Film,” a blend of film and performance by the filmmaker Zia Anger. I attended it Friday night; the second and third
Rudy Giuliani In Major Shakeup, One of the Voices in Rudy Giuliani’s Head ResignsThe New Yorker - Andy BorowitzWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a shakeup that White House insiders said was a long time coming, one of the voices in Rudy Giuliani’s head has resigned. The resignation, which was officially tendered
Bugaboo Playtime SurveyThe New Yorker - Bruce LeddyHello, friend! Once upon a time, you were a frequent player on the Bugaboo Playtime™ Web site or gaming console, but now—congratulations!—you’re all grown up. To help us understand our impact on young
California Trump’s War on California and the ClimateThe New Yorker - Dana GoodyearIf Donald Trump had come to California earlier this week, and found smog conditions similar to those that prevailed here only a few decades ago, it’s easy to imagine what he would have done: tweeted about
Climate New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global MovementThe New Yorker - Carolyn KormannOn Friday morning, Alexandria Villaseñor, who, at fourteen years old, is one of the youngest organizers of the global climate strike, took the subway from Grand Central to Foley Square, in downtown Manhattan.
Donald Trump Can President Trump Be Held Accountable for the Whistle-Blower Complaint?The New Yorker - Isaac ChotinerThis week, a whistle-blower complaint from a current or former U.S. intelligence official about President Trump developed into a major political controversy. The complaint reportedly concerned Trump’s
Teens New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers MarchThe New Yorker - Alexandra SchwartzEach generation inherits the messes made by its predecessors, and their mythologies, too. Like many nineties kids, I grew up on stories and photographs of anti-Vietnam protests: young people in flared
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg Leads the World Climate StrikeThe New YorkerIn 2018, the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg started skipping class on Fridays to demand action on the climate crisis, triggering the international “Fridays for Future” movement. Three days before the
Rihanna Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Super-Fun Face on End-Stage CapitalismThe New Yorker - Troy Patterson“Savage X Fenty Show,” on Amazon Prime Video, is an infomercial for an underpants brand. It is also a charming diversion and an estimable pseudo-event—a see-now-buy-now spectacular for the society of It
Cannabis The Green RushThe New Yorker - David RemnickIt was just seven years ago that Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Today the drug is legal in eleven states and counting, with polls showing
Photography The Faces of Young Protesters at New York City’s Climate StrikeThe New Yorker - Doreen St. FélixIn Stockholm, last year, a ninth-grade environmental activist started a school strike to call attention to the global climate crisis. On the steps of the Swedish parliament, initially alone, she protested
The Princess Bride Remake Everything—Particularly “The Princess Bride”The New Yorker - Richard BrodyJudging by the outcry from Hollywood stars over a Sony executive’s vaguely floated notion this week of remaking “The Princess Bride,” you’d think that the idea wasn’t to make a new film but to alter or
Madonna Madonna’s New Pirate LookThe New Yorker - Tracey K. Berglund New reports have illuminated the battle between Congress and the White House over access to a whistle-blower’s complaint about the President’s call with a foreign leader.
Lyrics The Controversial Use of Rap Lyrics as EvidenceThe New Yorker - Briana YoungerThis week, in a New York district court, one of music’s least sympathetic characters, the Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, took the stand to testify against alleged members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods,
Poetry Eliza Griswold Discusses “First Person”The New Yorker - Kevin YoungEliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence “First Person,” featured on newyorker.com. Griswold is a poet and a journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker since 2003. She is author
Climate The Global Climate Walkout and Environmentalism in The New YorkerThe New Yorker - Erin OverbeyLast month, the sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York after crossing the Atlantic in an emission-free sailboat to attend the Climate Action Summit, at the United Nations.
Politics Did Trump Try to Extort the President of Ukraine Into Investigating Joe Biden?The New Yorker - John CassidyJust when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes a Trump development to trump them all—or most of them. On Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that a complaint from an anonymous intelligence
Cartoons Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 20thThe New Yorker - Avi SteinbergInternet sensations and co-authors of “The Hidden Power of F*cking Up,” the Try Guys, split up to take a stab at their biggest challenge yet, our cartoon-caption contest. “Mom, can we skip this charade
Climate Watch Live: Greta Thunberg Leads the N.Y.C. Climate-Change ProtestThe New YorkerSince crossing the Atlantic on an emission-free sailboat, earlier this month, Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old climate activist from Sweden, has met with former President Barack Obama, appeared on
Books The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: FictionThe New YorkerThis week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. This morning, we present the ten contenders in the category of Fiction. Earlier this week, we published longlists
New Tools from the Society of Advanced Baseball PhilosophyThe New Yorker - Jonathan ZellerBARSQS: Batting Average with Runners in Scoring Quantum Superposition A runner is only in scoring position if he eventually scores. More precisely, he is both in scoring position and not, and in different
Tom Steyer Can Tom Steyer Disrupt the Democratic Primary?The New Yorker - Eren OrbeyThis past week, Tom Steyer visited the Hamburg Inn No. 2, a family diner in Iowa City that has drawn the likes of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, not to mention the fictional congressman
Iran Iran Entrenches Its “Axis of Resistance” Across the Middle EastThe New Yorker - Robin WrightSpy Mountain, the moniker for Mt. Avital, rises high on the biblical Golan Heights. Surveillance antennas are conspicuous atop a heavily fortified installation. It’s Israel’s forward observation post into
Donald Trump “It Won’t End Well”: Trump and His Obscure New National-Security ChiefThe New Yorker - Susan B. GlasserFlattery will get you everywhere with Donald Trump. The President demonstrated this powerfully on Wednesday, when he named the State Department’s little-known hostage negotiator, Robert O’Brien, to be
Iran How Will the Brinkmanship Between the U.S. and Iran Be Resolved?The New Yorker - Dorothy WickendenThis past Saturday, a series of air strikes in Saudi Arabia damaged more than a dozen oil installations, including one of the most critical oil-production facilities in the world. The attack threw global
