Helen Rosner’s Summer Drinks, Plus an Anxious Future in Afghanistan
Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the co-founder of Afghanistan’s only all-girls boarding school, and she is anxiously waiting to see if the Taliban—which brutally opposes the education of girls and women—will ...
20 Jul 202134min
The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown, recently won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.” Chatelain looks at how McDonald’s leveraged the s...
16 Jul 202115min
Gillian Flynn, Akhil Sharma, and Alison Bechdel on Their Most Memorable Jobs
The U.S. economy seems to be showing real signs of life, and lots of people are finally returning to the labor force—eight hundred and fifty thousand in the month of June alone. At the same time, job ...
13 Jul 202116min
Bon Iver Live at the New Yorker Festival
In the winter of 2007, a songwriter by the name of Justin Vernon returned to the Wisconsin woods, not far from where he grew up. Just a few months later, he emerged with “For Emma, Forever Ago”—his fi...
9 Jul 202124min
Janet Mock Finds Her Voice
Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just moved back to Oahu, where she was born, from Texas...
6 Jul 202124min
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino Investigate 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...
3 Jul 202131min
A Family Divided Over the COVID-19 Vaccine
Across the country, COVID-19 vaccines are becoming available for teen-agers. But most states still require parental consent for minors to receive the shot. David Remnick spoke with a teen-ager who ask...
25 Jun 202120min
The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa
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...
22 Jun 202136min
