The President has signed a new executive order that could cut aid to many of the world’s poorest countries—and, as in the U.S., women have been particularly targeted.
For people inside and outside the White House, pinpointing exactly what might sway the President has been a daunting task.
After twenty years of activism, the author of “The God of Small Things” delivers a scarring novel of India’s modern history.
For May, who was already facing criticism for running a lackluster campaign, Trump’s ghastly criticisms of the London mayor were the last thing she needed.
At the actor’s criminal trial for sexual assault, his show-biz reputation and the numerous allegations by other women hover over the proceedings.
The members of the Trump Administration seem eager to disregard the rules that they themselves created.
“Let the Sunshine In,” a song first sung at the Public fifty years ago, was freshly relevant on Monday evening at the Delacorte Theatre, as…
“Listen, if it’s good for the Koch brothers, it’s good for America.”
In a mysterious epidemic that has spread rapidly, millions of Americans will be too sick to report to work on Thursday morning.
We will need to schedule seven appointments to make little holes in your wall for no reason, but then never actually show up.
In ”Dear Cyborgs,” resonances begin to emerge as everything, from radical art to political protest, gets absorbed into the rhythms of everyday life.
I escorted her to rock-and-roll clubs, and she made me a writer.
Attending a conference in Phoenix.
No matter how worldly we are, stories of fictional foreboding return us to innocence.
The comedian’s latest Netflix special, “Homecoming King,” mines the gap between him and his immigrant parents.
The Grim Reaper—that black-coated, scythe-carrying personification of death—has appeared in over a hundred and four cartoons in The New Yorker since 1937. But where was he prior to that?
After earning a reputation as an innovator at Pujol and Cosme, the chef has opened a café that serves both Arctic-char tostadas and avocado toast.
What to make of our new literature of radical pessimism.
The actor, who is in Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant,” evaluates the scare tactics of the Jekyll & Hyde Club.
The President can’t stop himself from making political capital out of tragedy—and offending the British, who have borne the weight of recent terrorist attacks.
Angela Merkel seems to have had it with Trump, his flashy contempt for the climate deal, and his disrespect of his fellow-leaders.
“Earth is a terrible, very bad planet,” he said. “It’s maybe the worst planet in the solar system, and it’s far from the biggest.”
The NPR podcast’s hosts faced a predicament for Season 3: How do you make a show about norms when normal goes out the window?
The special election confirmed that political partisanship seems impossible to shake.
It fulfills the heroic and mythic demands of the superhero genre, but it also shares, with sincere intimacy, a story of ruefulness and loss.
“One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan.”
When Sabelo Mlangeni first arrived in South Africa’s largest city, he relied on his camera to overcome his feelings of fear.
