Adam Gopnik on 01/04/2026 A Adam Gopnik
What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?
Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.
Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.
Can undocumented parents elude ICE capture for one more year, until their youngest turns eighteen?
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up.
The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.
What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela?
A meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump may determine whether the agreement advances—or hardens into a permanent order.
The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago.
The new President of Chile joins a new class of leaders trying to seize the future by rewriting the past.
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
A Palestinian businessman on the persistent humanitarian crisis in the territory, and what he hopes might change.
A conversation about the country’s unique Jewish community and rising levels of antisemitism.
A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.
The President has made clear he wants to exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserves; history suggests that it won’t be easy.
The ability of the National Women’s Soccer League to retain Trinity Rodman, one of its biggest stars, could determine its future.
Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place.
Many analysts are predicting an election-year upturn, but they aren’t accounting for the President’s ability to cause more chaos.
As mayors, the socialist and the plutocrat each embody outsized ideas of the city—and distinct forms of capital.
A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature.
A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts.
On Donald Trump’s insaaaane holiday message to the nation.
Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists.
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