Senator Chris Van Hollen on the Epstein Files, and the Leadership Crisis in Washington
Both major parties are experiencing a crisis of leadership in Washington. President Trump’s flip-flopping on the Epstein files acknowledges that, on this issue, at least, he has lost control of MAGA. ...
21 Nov 202527min
Rewriting Art History at the Studio Museum in Harlem
The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City’s cultural life, having mounted era-defining exhibitions such as “Black Male” and “Freestyle” early on in her career. Golden is the Ford ...
18 Nov 202516min
Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025
When President Donald Trump began his tariff rollout, the business world predicted that his unprecedented attempt to reshape the economy would lead to a major recession, if Trump went through with it ...
14 Nov 202534min
Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses”
Patti Smith’s album “Horses” came out fifty years ago, on November 10, 1975, launching her to stardom almost overnight. An anniversary reissue came out this year, to rapturous reviews. Yet being a roc...
11 Nov 202540min
What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker
Few Democratic officials have been more outspoken in opposition to the Trump Administration than J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. He seems almost to relish antagonizing Trump, who has suggest...
7 Nov 202527min
From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives”
The New Yorker contributing writer Heidi Blake has been investigating a new story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark. This season is about one of the most notorious crimes in modern Br...
4 Nov 202544min
Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump
Jon Stewart has been a leading figure in political comedy since before the turn of the millennium. But compared to his early years on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”—when Stewart was merciless in hi...
31 Okt 202546min
It’s Not Just You: The Internet Is Actually Getting Worse
“Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment,” the columnist Kyle Chayk...
28 Okt 202521min
