Elaine Pagels on the Mysteries of Jesus
Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a profile of the religion professor Elaine Pagels—a scholar of early Christianity who had also, improbably, become a best-selling author....
1 Huhti 202526min
Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”
With congressional Republicans unwilling to put any checks on an Administration breaking norms and issuing illegal orders, the focus has shifted to the Democratic opposition—or the lack thereof. Demo...
28 Maalis 202524min
A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to as Greater Israel. The Trump Administration might not...
25 Maalis 202521min
Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job
Kaitlan Collins was only a couple years out of college when she became a White House correspondent for Tucker Carlson’s the Daily Caller. Collins stayed in the White House when she went over to CNN du...
21 Maalis 202528min
We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE; Plus, Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain”
Across the federal government, the number of federal workers fired under Donald Trump and DOGE currently stands at over a hundred thousand. Some of those workers have turned to a website called We the...
18 Maalis 202523min
Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”
Two weeks after the Inauguration of Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.” Musk was referring to the Agency for International Development, an agency...
14 Maalis 202527min
How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars
Recently, the former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to eleven years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and gold worth more than half a million dollars. He is the first person senten...
10 Maalis 202523min
What Trump Has Got Wrong—and Right—About the War in Ukraine
Since emerging on the national political scene a decade ago, Donald Trump has openly admired the dictatorial style of Vladimir Putin. Trump’s lean toward Russia was investigated, it was psychoanalyzed...
7 Maalis 202537min
