In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at the border, hoping to claim asylum. Poland refused to process…
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Read more Living in Tracy Chapman’s HouseOn set, a young director named Victor Velle was rehearsing the train-station scene with the actors playing George and Uncle Jack. Velle, who wore a neck brace (Fourth…
Read more Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled MasterpieceNext, he brought out a stack of canary-yellow index cards, thick as a sandwich. It was covered in his scrawl. From the lined pages, he distills the material…
Read more Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long GameAfter a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up. Ben Taub Source link
Read more Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?Trump, for his part, was effusive in his praise of Weiss. “I think you have a great new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole…
Read more Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS NewsOn the new map, you can readily see where each train stops, but with less of a sense of where you are on the grid. Central Park, for…
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Read more The Mischievous Ex-Bankers Behind “Industry”As Sacks aged, he felt as if he were gazing at people from the outside. But he also noticed a new kind of affection for humans—“homo sap.” “They’re…
Read more Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?“He just bit me!” I said. The woman stood upright and pushed her hair away from her face. She was pretty except for her mouth, which was thin-lipped…
Read more And Your Little Dog, Too, by David SedarisFive of them died during the first winter. But the hunting was plentiful, and the settlement soon flourished, spreading among six locations, including Ittoqqortoormiit and two satellite villages,…
Read more One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing WorldIn late summer, Yoon learned that ICE had moved Jim to its Alexandria Staging Facility, in central Louisiana, from which detainees tend to get deported. Yoon contacted ICE…
Read more Disappeared to a Foreign Prison“What kind of power?” I asked. “All kinds of power,” he said and smiled. In June, when Trump announced that he had brought peace to eastern Congo, he…
Read more Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?McCurdy first met Mamdani in 2019 at at a party for Tiffany Cabán’s Queens District Attorney race. A few months later, she began volunteering on his 2020 state…
Read more An Exclusive Look Inside Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji’s Viral Clerk’s Office WeddingPatel had arrived in court wearing a borrowed, ill-fitting jacket, wrinkled khakis, and boat shoes. Hughes asked, “And where is your tie? Where is your suit?” The judge…
Read more Kash Patel’s Acts of ServiceLandsvirkjun, which had paid for most of the I.D.D.P. work, decided that it needed financial support to drill more exploratory wells. “We said, ‘We’re just a small energy…
Read more Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIn “More Fool Me,” Fry speculates that, had he entered Cambridge fifty years earlier, he might have been tapped as a spy. During that era, he writes, “an…
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