Scott Pruitt, the “Originalist” at the E.P.A.
As the Attorney General of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt sued the Environmental Protection Agency fourteen times, claiming that the Obama Administration had overreached with policies intended to curtail clim...
23 Mar 201821min
A Homemade Museum in a Refugee Camp
Tens of thousands of refugees from the civil war in Yemen have fled across the narrow Mandeb Strait to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa. Nicolas Niarchos reported for The New Yorker from Djibouti, wher...
20 Mar 201822min
Armando Iannucci on “The Death of Stalin”
As the fourth season of “Veep” came to an end, director Armando Iannucci turned from chronicling the foibles of cynical western democracy to something darker still: life under dictatorship. He found ...
16 Mar 201834min
In Secret, a North Korean Writer Protests the Regime
Bandi is the pen name of a North Korean writer. He is believed to be a propaganda writer for the government who began to write, secretly, fiction and poems critical of the regime. (Details of his biog...
9 Mar 201835min
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Dossier
The dossier—a secret report alleging various corrupt dealings between Donald Trump, his campaign, and the government of Russia, made public after the 2016 election—is one of the most hotly debated doc...
6 Mar 201838min
Alone and on Foot in Antarctica
Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true...
6 Mar 201826min
Jennifer Lawrence on “Red Sparrow” and Times Up
Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for her first Oscar at twenty, and since then she has balanced the biggest of big-budget franchises, like the “Hunger Games” and the “X-Men” series, with smaller, prest...
2 Mar 201829min
The New Yorker presents “The Brodies”
Richard Brody hosts an alternative Oscars show — “The Brodies” — and recommends some of his favorite films from the past year, and the writer Chang-rae Lee takes us to a sprawling international super...
27 Feb 201819min
