News & Politics
One Family’s Perilous Escape from Gaza City
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his extended family. “The world is closing in on us,” he wrote on WhatsApp.
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Argentina’s Javier Milei and His Free-Market Fundamentalism
The President-elect, a right-wing populist with authoritarian instincts, has been compared to Donald Trump, but his radical views on the economy set him apart.
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The Next Power Plant Is on the Roof and in the Basement
A Department of Energy report promotes a new system that could remake the energy grid.
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Should People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?
Those who want to curtail freedom of speech do not log the debits and credits of censorship, nor do they care about the balance of norms—they act when they have power.
The Road to Dubai
The latest round of international climate negotiations is being held in a petrostate. What could go wrong?
Bradley Cooper: Conducting Is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”
Bradley Cooper tells David Remnick that he has spent his life preparing for his role in “Maestro” as the iconic conductor Leonard Bernstein—and it shows.
Should U.S. Aid to Israel Be Contingent on Human Rights?
Senator Ben Cardin, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argues that humanitarian concerns should not hold up funding for Israel’s war effort.
Features
The Fall of My Teen-Age Self
This particular April, I’d sworn to my mother I wasn’t smoking. Therefore: stolen cigarettes. Therefore: windowsill.
Piecing Together My Father’s Murder
I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.
The Violence of the Rams
I know you can’t hold animals to human standards. That said, rams are assholes.
Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless Search for a Self
In more than a hundred works of fiction, Oates has investigated the question of personality.
Video
“Parker”: One Black Family’s Quest to Reclaim Their Name
A Kansas City family reunites to do something that countless African Americans before them could not do—choose their own last name.
Podcasts
A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt talks about antisemitism “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says, but the stability of democracies.