News & Culture
What Will Become of Pandemic Pets?
In a time of stress and isolation, we turned to them for comfort. Now it’s time to think about what owning animals really means.
By Nick Paumgarten
Lina Khan vs. the Tech Giants
A proponent of reining in Silicon Valley has a powerful new post.
By John Cassidy
The Man Who Controls the Senate
Will Joe Manchin’s search for common ground wreck the Democrats’ agenda?
By Evan Osnos
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Spotlight
Why So Many Politicians Want Paperboy Prince to Hit Them with a Pie
“Y’all haven’t seen what I do with confetti,” the candidate bent on upstaging the mayor’s race said.
By Eric Lach
Biden, Putin, and History’s Weight
At last week’s summit, Biden tried to reassert democratic values.
By David Remnick
Jean Smart Never Went Away
The star of “Hacks” and “Mare of Easttown” discusses loss, one-liners, and forty years onscreen.
By Rachel Syme
A Cop Campaigning Against the N.Y.P.D.
Edwin Raymond stumps in Brooklyn for a City Council post.
By Andrew Marantz
Inventing the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory
To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Janet Malcolm, Remembered by Writers
Notes on Malcolm’s legacy, from writers at and outside The New Yorker.
By The New Yorker
“Demon Slayer”: The Viral Blockbuster from Japan
How an anime franchise captured the world’s imagination.
By Matt Alt
In Focus
The Coronavirus Crisis
Coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the science of vaccines to the culture of quarantine.
Racial Injustice and Policing
Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.
Reopening and the Economy
The impact of the pandemic and the efforts at recovery.
Dept. of Returns
Stories of life after the vaccine.
From This Week’s Issue
Evan Osnos on Joe Manchin’s key vote, Margaret Talbot on the women who would be priests, Doreen St. Félix on Ziwe, and more.
Humor
How to Relearn How to Ride a Bike
Once you’re lurching forward, keep both eyes fixed on a spot directly ahead of your front tire.
By Emma Brewer
Mitch McConnell Warns That Voting Bill Would Bring U.S. to Brink of Democracy
“I will not sit idly by and watch a foreign form of government sneak across our border,” the Senate Minority Leader vowed.
By Andy Borowitz
Letter to a Future Son from a Meek Son
I offer this warning that you are the inheritor of nothing in particular.
By Ben Philippe
Attention, People of Earth!
Is the most powerful Thought Leader in your nation a human known as Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson? Really?
By Will Stephen
Fiction & Poetry
“Offside Constantly”
“I was afraid sometimes that there was nothing wrong with me—that I was just trying to get my parents’ minds off my brother.”
By Camille Bordas
Camille Bordas on Death and Doppelgängers
The author discusses her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
By Willing Davidson
“Bioluminescence”
“There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own / light.”
By Paul Tran