On Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court issued an order removing oral arguments in Trump v. Hawaii and Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project—the travel-ban cases—from its calendar, until further notice. The arguments, which had been consolidated, were scheduled to be Read More …
How does a news organization decide if a place is safe to travel? At The New Yorker, we asked ourselves that question a lot as I tried to gain access to North Korea, in order to report a story about Read More …
Soon after the #MeToo movement formed in the United States, in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, #balancetonporc (“expose your pig”) erupted in France. The effect has been an unprecedented blow to what Sabrina Kassa has described, in Mediapart, as Read More …
The epithet has the upper hand. While the highest stage of celebrity may be recognition by first name, the epithet has achieved a new standard: recognition by first letter. Pity nefarious, nephritic, nihilist, nepotistic, nascent, and neophyte, all useful N-words, Read More …
Click:polymer clay dog figurine The Congressional Baseball Game takes place every June, and legislators prepare for it diligently. For weeks leading up to the game, they attend regular early-morning practices before heading to their day jobs. The game itself, Republicans Read More …
Frank Ramsey lived as if he knew he would die young—and he did, just shy of twenty-seven. Born in 1903, he spent his shortened twenties in something of a fury, hurtling around Europe and engaging with the most exciting intellectuals Read More …
Earlier this year, when people started talking about a possible boxing match between Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Conor McGregor, experts agreed that McGregor had virtually no chance. After all, Mayweather is a boxing virtuoso; McGregor is a mixed-martial-arts champion but Read More …
Like most sports, tennis clings to its rules and traditions, its mores and peculiarities—proudly, you might say, even stubbornly. And why not? The game has been embraced worldwide, by men and by women. An estimated fourteen million people in China Read More …
Donald Trump is not, by all accounts, a great reader. But he's memorized the Roy Cohn playbook, and in his first Cabinet meeting, on Monday, he consulted a page from it: the one on ritualized flattery. Trump was a regular Read More …
Donald Trump is the first President in history to have a Cabinet meeting go viral. If you haven’t seen it yet, you must watch the video of Trump going around the table on Monday morning and eliciting gushing testimonials and expressions of Read More …