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The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson and the contributor Andy Kroll have been named 2025 winners of Polk Awards, among the highest honors in journalism. Anderson…
Read more The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 Reporting“Yes, that’s me, it’s my bedroom,” she said. “I never sleep like that.” She was struck by how floppy her cheek was. She told Perret, “I don’t know…
Read more The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her FamilyIt wasn’t exactly a house or, I guess, it was less than a house. Specifically, it was half of a house, three stories, divided top to bottom, clapboarded,…
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Read more Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long GameFrey drove to the state Senate building, across the Mississippi River in St. Paul, where Democratic members of Congress were hosting a shadow hearing about ICE activity in…
Read more The Mayor of an Occupied CityOn 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…
Read more What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?That 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 AmericaAs 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?On a Friday evening in October, 2021, the Justice Department launched into damage-control mode. The Attorney General, Merrick Garland, the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, and other senior…
Read more The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein FilesMcCurdy 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…
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Read more The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star“No maga left behind,” Martin tweeted. He seems to mean it: Trump granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year…
Read more The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential PardonsIn Jonathan Demme’s film “Stop Making Sense,” Byrne wore an oversized suit while performing “Girlfriend Is Better.”Photograph from Collection Christophel / Alamy In subsequent years, the influence of…
Read more David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation“I’d love to talk to you sometime,” Curran said. “I’ll give you my contact.” He pressed a Secret Service commemorative coin into her palm. Loomer has described her…
Read more Laura Loomer’s Endless PaybackAre you an Android user who is constantly looking at Apple Watch owners with envy? You’re in luck, as the Pixel Watch 3 is marked down to just…
Read more The Pixel Watch 3 Is $100 OffLawrence liked Scorsese’s idea, and put together an adaptation of “Die, My Love” with her production company. (Scorsese is credited as a producer on the film; next year,…
Read more Jennifer Lawrence Goes DarkThe surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House—soon to be replaced…
Read more Why Trump Tore Down the East WingPresident Donald Trump arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning, October 13th, just as Hamas was releasing the last surviving Israeli hostages after two years of cruel…
Read more A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to AchieveCandidly. The past, the sensations of the past. Now!in cuneiform, of umbrella satrap square-carts with hotdogsand onions of red syrup blended, of sand bejewelling the prepucein tank suits,…
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