A Former Olympian Discusses the Tribulations of Tokyo 2020
The opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, is scheduled for Friday. With COVID{:.small}-19 cases spiking worldwide, and Japan under a state of emergency, many wonder whether the Olym...
22 Jul 202121min
Afghanistan’s Only All-Girls Boarding School Fears for the Return of the Taliban
Since the U.S. withdrawal began, Taliban forces have re-captured more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s districts. Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder of the country’s only all-girls boarding school,...
19 Jul 202117min
Tough Tests in Cuba and Haiti for Biden’s Foreign Policy
This week, protests erupted in cities and towns across Cuba as people responded to food and medicine shortages, and to a gutted economy made even worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Hait...
15 Jul 202126min
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino on Britney Spears’s Conservatorship
Britney Spears has been one of the world’s most prominent pop stars since her début, in the late nineteen-nineties. But, since 2008, she’s been under a court-ordered conservatorship—a form of legal gu...
12 Jul 202131min
The Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height
In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921, the Greenwood district was a thriving Black metropolis, a city within a city. Buoyed by money from Oklahoma’s oil boom, it was home to t...
5 Jul 202134min
The New Culture Wars Over American History
In September, 2020, the writer Christopher Rufo appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss the threat posed by “critical race theory.” Rufo had come across the term while looking into the origins...
2 Jul 202123min
The Unhoused House Sitters of Los Angeles
More than half a million people in America today lack housing. Some sixty-six thousand live in Los Angeles County alone. Among them is Augustus Evans, whose desire for steady work was thwarted by a fe...
28 Jun 202118min
Stonewall Manchin
Over the first five months of Biden's presidency, with the Democrats holding the slimmest possible majority in the Senate, President Biden has consistently run into the resistance of one man: Senator ...
24 Jun 202124min
