A Trans Woman Finds Her True Face Through Surgery
The staff writer Rebecca Mead recently observed the seven-hour surgery of woman she calls Abby. (To protect her privacy, Abby’s real name was not used, and her voice has been altered in the audio of ...
17 Apr 201825min
Pope Francis the Disruptor
As a conservative columnist at the New York Times, Ross Douthat fills the post once held by no less a figure than William Kristol. A devout Catholic, Douthat opposes the progressive direction in whic...
13 Apr 201831min
Frank Oz on Miss Piggy’s Secret Backstory and Jim Henson’s Legacy
Frank Oz was a teenager when he started working with Jim Henson, the puppeteer and filmmaker behind the Muppets. Oz went on to create characters like Bert, Cookie Monster, Miss Piggy, and Yoda from “...
10 Apr 201824min
Emma González at Home, and a Crown Prince Abroad
Emma González is a survivor of the Parkland attack, and a leader of the #NeverAgain movement. She talks with David Remnick about the ways her life has changed since the shooting, and why activism come...
6 Apr 201832min
How Not to Write a Caption
Every week, a New Yorker cartoon is posted online and printed in the magazine without a caption, and thousands of people write in with their suggestions. Readers vote on a winner, and the top pick is...
3 Apr 201821min
John Thompson vs. American Justice
When police showed up to question John Thompson, he was worried that it was because he had sold drugs to an undercover cop. When he realized they were investigating a murder, he could only laugh: “Sh...
30 Mar 201855min
The American Bombs Falling on Yemen
Abdulqader Hilal Al-Dabab was the mayor of Sana’a, a politician with a long record of mediating disputes in a notoriously fractious and dangerous country. Earlier in his career, he accepted a position...
27 Mar 201835min
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
