On August 1st, after her first-round loss at the Citi Open, in Washington, which was her second straight defeat after coming back from a foot injury that had sidelined her for nearly a year, Sloane Stephens sat in front of Read More …
Join us on Facebook tonight for “Public Forum: 100 Days,” the third event in our “Well-Ordered Nation” series on the Trump Presidency, which is co-produced by the Public Theatre and The New Yorker. Watch the livestream at 7:30 P.M. E.S.T. Read More …
Momentous times. As Hurricane Maria, right on the heels of Irma, smashed its way past Dominica and toward Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean, on Tuesday, the inhabitants of Mexico City were reeling from the terrifying shock of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …