Bernie Sanders Ascends, and a High School Simulates the Election
Bernie Sanders’s win in New Hampshire has established him as the Democratic Presidential front-runner. Centrist Democrats regard him not as a challenge but more like an existential threat: they assume...
14 Feb 202038min
Louis C.K.’s Return to the Stage
Louis C.K. is touring comedy clubs for the first time since accusations of sexual misconduct seemed to end his career, in 2017. Several women charged that C.K. had exposed himself and masturbated in f...
7 Feb 202025min
The Black Vote in 2020
The last time a Democrat won the White House, he had enormous support from black voters; lower support from black voters was one of many reasons Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Marcus Ferrell, a politic...
7 Feb 202024min
A Tumultuous Week in Impeachment, and Jill Lepore on Democracy in Peril
The Washington correspondent Susan Glasser has been covering the scene in the Capitol as Republicans rush to contain the damage of the John Bolton manuscript leak. Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Del...
31 Jan 202034min
N. K. Jemisin on H. P. Lovecraft
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated authors in science fiction’s history; the novels of her “Broken Earth” trilogy won the Hugo Award for three consecutive years, a unique achievement. Yet her...
31 Jan 202015min
An Alternative Oscars Ceremony, and Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized
It’s time for the most anticipated of all awards shows: the Brodys, in which The New Yorker’s Richard Brody shares the best films of the year, according to Richard Brody. And the political commentator...
24 Jan 202028min
What Would a World Without Prisons Be Like?
Mass incarceration is now widely regarded as a prejudiced and deeply harmful set of policies. Bipartisan support exists for some degree of criminal-justice reform, and, in some circles, the idea of pr...
24 Jan 202022min
Mass Incarceration, Then and Now
The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world; although the country makes up about five per cent of the global population, it holds nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners. David Remni...
17 Jan 202049min
