Jon Lee Anderson on 11/24/2025 J Jon Lee Anderson
Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?
The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex.
Sarah Stillman on 11/24/2025 S Sarah Stillman
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.
Ben Taub on 11/24/2025 B Ben Taub
One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World
In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.
Alex Ross on 11/24/2025 A Alex Ross
In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
Zach Helfand on 11/24/2025 Z Zach Helfand
The Airport-Lounge Wars
When you’re waiting for a flight, what’s the difference between out there and in here?
Adam Iscoe on 11/24/2025 A Adam Iscoe
Big Apple Jackpot
Inside the fight to bring casinos to New York City.
Kristen Martin on 11/23/2025 K Kristen Martin
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
Ruth Marcus on 11/23/2025 R Ruth Marcus
The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files
Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating.
Elizabeth Kolbert on 11/20/2025 E Elizabeth Kolbert
A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun
The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.
Isaac Chotiner on 11/18/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
How M.B.S. Won Back Washington
After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.
Isaac Chotiner on 11/18/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe
After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
Isaac Chotiner on 11/05/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond
The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.
Isaac Chotiner on 10/27/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party
Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
Louisa Thomas on 11/23/2025 L Louisa Thomas
The Odd, Shifting Role of the N.F.L. Punter
He is the vestigial organ of a football team, a remnant of the time before the forward pass. And yet, now and again, he can be vitally important.
Jay Caspian Kang on 11/18/2025 J Jay Caspian Kang
Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman
The rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does.
John Cassidy on 11/17/2025 J John Cassidy
Donald Trump Can’t Dodge the Costly K-Shaped Economy
John Cassidy writes that, after Trump insisted that his tariffs weren’t raising prices, he has virtually admitted the opposite by moving to scrap the duties on certain foodstuffs.
Louisa Thomas on 11/16/2025 L Louisa Thomas
The New New England Patriots
The team lately seems to have found that elusive balance of confidence and calm, accountability and community. Where did it come from?
Susan B. Glasser on 11/21/2025 S Susan B. Glasser
Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye
On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging.
Taran Dugal on 11/19/2025 T Taran Dugal
The Sikh-Separatist Assassination Plot
A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West.
Sam Knight on 11/19/2025 S Sam Knight
A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind
Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.
T. M. Brown on 11/18/2025 T T. M. Brown
The Most Dangerous Genre
Our obsession with deadly game shows—from “The Running Man” and “Squid Game” to MrBeast’s real-life reënactments—reflects a shift in the national mood to something increasingly zero-sum.
Jessica Winter on 11/17/2025 J Jessica Winter
The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails
Donald Trump occupies a kind of negative space in the available files, which run an enervating gamut from the inane to the depraved.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on 11/16/2025 B Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons
The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.
Margaret Talbot on 11/15/2025 M Margaret Talbot
The Mystery of the Political Assassin
Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.