The Countdown to Brexit, Plus Adam Gopnik’s Turkey Zen
More than two years after British voters approved a measure to withdraw their nation from the European Union—a gigantic undertaking with no roadmap of any sort —Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled a p...
16 Nov 201832min
After the 2008 Financial Crisis, the Economy Was Fracked Up
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act injected almost nine hundred billion dollars into the U.S. economy to help the nation recover from the 2008 financial crisis. Ninety billion dollars went to ...
13 Nov 201819min
The Financial Crash and the Climate Crisis
Ten years after the financial crash of 2008, the economy is humming along, with steady growth and rising employment. Yet that crisis continues to shape our world, particularly through the rise of righ...
9 Nov 201836min
Derek Smalls—Harry Shearer’s Character in “Spinal Tap”—Returns with His Solo Début
Harry Shearer is known for doing many characters, including Mr. Burns and others from “The Simpsons,” but the most famous is Derek Smalls, the saturnine, epically muttonchopped bassist in the movie “T...
6 Nov 201823min
From Mexico, the Reality of the Migrant Caravan
Jonathan Blitzer spent a week in Mexico with the so-called caravan—a group of about five thousand migrants, most of them from Honduras, who are making a dangerous journey on foot to the U.S. border. D...
2 Nov 201830min
Janelle Monáe, from the Future to the Present
Janelle Monáe is an unlikely pop star. Her music is rooted in soul and R. & B., but also in pop, punk, and New Wave; her early releases were science-fiction concept albums, influenced by Fritz Lang’s ...
30 Okt 201830min
Daniel Radcliffe Gets His Facts Straight, and Pennsylvania’s Pipeline Politics
The actor Daniel Radcliffe is on Broadway in a new play called “The Lifespan of a Fact”—perhaps the first-ever work of theatre in which a fact checker is a starring role. Radcliffe’s character is obse...
26 Okt 201825min
Kelela Reinvents R. & B., and Sally Yates Gets Fired
When the acting Attorney General Sally Yates wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she was promptly sacked—“before it was fashionable to be fired” in the Trump Administration, Jeffrey Toobi...
23 Okt 201842min
