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?Neff agreed with other AutoAdmit commenters who argued that Michael Brown deserved to be killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, complaining that “the violent criminals are…
Read more Tucker Carlson’s Nationalist CrusadeTrump, 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 NewsI was in a yellow cab in high summer when I saw it. Twenty-three at the time, I sometimes skimmed articles about politics on my clunky BlackBerry while…
Read more Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt’s Obama “Fist Bump” CoverWe spent Christmas Eve driving around Caracas, revisiting familiar places, such as San Agustín del Norte, the neighborhood where my grandfather grew up, and Bellas Artes, the picturesque…
Read more The Lights Are Still On in VenezuelaWhen the King visited Greenland in April—looking jaunty and at ease while cruising on a fjord with the Prime Minister, and taking a coffee-and-cake break with locals at…
Read more Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by TrumpIn Peru every August, throngs of Catholics set out on foot from the remote northern town of Motupe, bound for a cliffside chapel that houses the Cross of…
Read more The Making of the First American PopeIn 1995, after a couple of years in Mexico, her mother heard that one of Rosalinda’s brothers was getting into trouble in the States and decided that she…
Read more A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids BehindThat phrase is at the heart of the free-trade lexicon. Free trade in goods or services, unencumbered by tariffs or other barriers, is likely to lead to greater…
Read more Peter Navarro, Trump’s Ultimate Yes-Man“That’s his living room,” Nelson’s lighting director, Budrock Prewitt, told me on the road to Camden. He meant the stage—specifically, a twelve-by-thirty-two-foot maroon rug that Nelson’s crew rolls…
Read more How Willie Nelson Sees AmericaAll founders have an origin story involving some intractable problem that they simply could not accept. For Rodgers, it was paper. Her mother was a matrimonial attorney, and…
Read more Why Millennials Love PrenupsSometimes the axon highways almost seem to pave themselves. My daughter, Laura, began to read all of a sudden, the summer before kindergarten. (“It’s hard to believe that…
Read more Dyslexia and the Reading WarsDuring the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Long, the less famous younger brother of Senator Huey Long, “went off his rocker,” as the tickled…
Read more Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State”The godmother of “Industry” is Jane Tranter, a powerful executive producer who has worked in both the U.K. and Hollywood. In the early twenty-tens, Tranter had the idea…
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?