Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?
On July 4th—while the U.S. celebrates its break from Britain—voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls and, according to all predictions, oust the current government. The Conservative Party ha...
14 Juni 202436min
After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names
For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 1987, Smokes and Warren were convicted of second-degr...
11 Juni 202428min
Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
When Raphael Warnock was elected to the Senate from Georgia in the 2020 election, he made history a couple of times over. He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South. ...
7 Juni 202422min
The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s spor...
4 Juni 202419min
Cécile McLorin Salvant Finds “the Gems That Haven’t Been Sung and Sung”
When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton Marsalis described her as the kind of talent who comes along only “once in a generation or two.” Salvant’s work is ro...
31 Maj 202431min
Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
In their breakout comedy series, “Broad City,” Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson played raucous and raunchy best friends who were the glue in each other’s lives. In “Babes,” the new movie co-written by G...
28 Maj 202423min
Love Is Blind, and Allegedly Toxic
On the reality-TV dating show “Love Is Blind,” the most watched original series in Netflix history, contestants are alone in windowless, octagonal pods with no access to their phones or the Internet....
24 Maj 202427min
Miranda July’s New Novel Takes on Marriage, Desire, and Perimenopause
Some time in her forties, something shifted in Miranda July. She started having “this new, grim feeling about the future, which was weird, because I’m, like, a very excited, hopeful person,” she tells...
21 Maj 202420min
