Manvir Singh on 12/23/2024 M Manvir Singh
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.
Rachel Aviv on 12/23/2024 R Rachel Aviv
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
Rachel Syme on 12/23/2024 R Rachel Syme
The Hollywood Slog That Led Adam Scott to “Severance”
TV’s preëminent office guy has never worked a “regular nine-to-five,” but his years as a struggling actor taught him what it’s like to toil anonymously.
Chang Che on 12/21/2024 C Chang Che
The Father of Chinese Authoritarianism Has a Message for America
Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.
Anthony Lane on 12/16/2024 A Anthony Lane
The Secret History of Risotto
The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent.
Adam Gopnik on 12/22/2024 A Adam Gopnik
As if Times Weren’t Unsettling Enough, Saturn Is Losing Its Rings
The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this moment.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on 12/21/2024 B Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The G.O.P.’s Elon Musk Problem
The tech billionaire derailed a government-funding deal and made a shutdown more likely. His intervention signals the growing sway of wealth in politics, and its risks.
Antonia Hitchens on 12/20/2024 A Antonia Hitchens
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Go to Washington
What does parading nominees around Capitol Hill before their confirmation hearings actually accomplish?
David D. Kirkpatrick on 12/19/2024 D David D. Kirkpatrick
How the U.S. Can Learn from Its Policy Failures During the Arab Spring
The American Ambassador to Syria at the start of the uprising believes that the U.S. could still help give the Syrians a fighting chance at stable self-governance.
Isaac Chotiner on 12/09/2024 I Isaac Chotiner
How Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Crumbled
Iran’s weakness, a faltering economy, and new political fissures led to the stunning end of a dynasty.
Isaac Chotiner on 12/08/2024 I Isaac Chotiner
Are Blanket Pardons for Officials on Donald Trump’s Target List a Good Idea?
As the Biden Administration considers granting clemency to officials singled out by Trump, a legal scholar explains the advantages and pitfalls of extending such protections.
Isaac Chotiner on 12/03/2024 I Isaac Chotiner
How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime
A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army.
Isaac Chotiner on 11/19/2024 I Isaac Chotiner
How Trump Could Change the Trajectory of the War in Ukraine
Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out.
John Cassidy on 12/23/2024 J John Cassidy
The Lonely Skepticism of a Bull-Market Skeptic
Investors’ enthusiasm for A.I. has converted some longtime Wall Street bears into optimists. Jeremy Grantham is still waiting for the bubble to pop.
Louisa Thomas on 12/22/2024 L Louisa Thomas
Why Watch the Los Angeles Lakers?
The dawn of J. J. Redick’s coaching career and the dusk of Lebron James’s playing years converge in an erratic season, while the N.B.A.’s ratings are tanking.
John Cassidy on 12/16/2024 J John Cassidy
How Did We End Up with Such an Opaque and Costly Health-Care System?
The murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. and the reaction it provoked have revived some long-standing debates about health care in the U.S.
Louisa Thomas on 12/15/2024 L Louisa Thomas
The Resurrection of Bill Belichick
After failing to land another job in the N.F.L., the former New England Patriots coach is headed to the University of North Carolina. Will it work?
Rachel Monroe on 12/20/2024 R Rachel Monroe
How the Far Right Reports on the Border
Wid Lyman, who tries to document crossings on the southern border, is one of a growing number of citizen journalists who portray immigrants with a sense of menace.
Robin Wright on 12/19/2024 R Robin Wright
The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances
The Islamic Republic is weaker—on multiple fronts—than it’s been in nearly half a century.
Eliza Griswold on 12/17/2024 E Eliza Griswold
Reasons to Leave Syria—and to Return
In one border town, some Syrians were fleeing to Lebanon, as others celebrated Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, or returned from exile in search of the missing.
E. Tammy Kim on 12/15/2024 E E. Tammy Kim
In South Korea, a Blueprint for Resisting Autocracy?
After President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered martial law, the legislature voted to impeach him. But it could take months to remove him from office, and uncertainties remain.
Elizabeth Kolbert on 12/14/2024 E Elizabeth Kolbert
The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change
Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague.
Jessica Winter on 12/13/2024 J Jessica Winter
Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero
The support for the alleged shooter is rooted in an American tradition of exalting the outlaw.
Susan B. Glasser on 12/12/2024 S Susan B. Glasser
Donald Trump Is Picking Fights. Will Anyone Hit Back?
On Chris Wray’s self-defenestration and the dilemma of being on the pugilistic President-elect’s target list.