The U.K.’s “Funkapolitan” Conservative Party Struggles with the Effects of Brexit and the Pandemic
The United Kingdom officially withdrew from the European Union on January 31, 2020. On that day, the first cases of COVID-19 were officially confirmed in Britain. Like every other country, the U.K. ha...
14 Okt 202120min
Attorney General Merrick Garland, Interviewed by Jane Mayer
At the 2021 New Yorker Festival, the investigative journalist Jane Mayer sat down for a conversation with Merrick Garland, the longtime federal judge now serving as President Biden’s Attorney General....
11 Okt 202116min
How Many Scandals Can Facebook Survive?
Last month, the Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of reports called “The Facebook Files.” Based on leaked internal documents, the series highlights how Facebook has stoked fear, anger, and...
7 Okt 202120min
Jonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick About “Crossroads”
Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the Hildebrand family is at a crossroads itself, just as the America of that moment seemed poised to ...
4 Okt 202126min
Recurring Nightmares on Rikers Island
The first jail on Rikers Island opened in 1932, and the complex has since expanded to include ten jails holding thousands of inmates every day. Violence among Rikers inmates is common, and there are a...
30 Sep 202121min
Andreas Malm on the Environmental Movement and “Intelligent Sabotage”
Andreas Malm, a climate activist and senior lecturer at Lund University, in Sweden, studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism. With the United Nations climate meeting in Glasgow r...
27 Sep 202121min
Biden’s Big Economic Gamble
Even before his election, Joe Biden described the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to reform the American economy. Now, after months of negotiations, Biden’s trillion-doll...
23 Sep 202126min
Jelani Cobb on the Kerner Report, an Unheeded Warning about the Consequences of Racism
In 1967, in the wake of a violent uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to investigate what had happened. This seemed futile: a...
20 Sep 202118min
