How to take a compliment without inviting misfortune.
A hundred years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful. His interventions marked a turning point whose effects are still being felt.
An altercation over a secret tunnel in a Brooklyn Lubavitcher shul raised a question: Why do so many Chabad buildings look as if they belong in Tudor England?
Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.
A NASA report recommended crowdsourcing possible U.F.O. sightings. The founder of Enigma Labs explains how they’re already sorting and rating them according to plausibility.
Afterward, talking of that night, she can’t remember how she found her way, with the darkness complete and the crow no longer visible in upper branches.
New cartoons from the magazine.
From Romulus and Remus to Mary-Kate and Ashley, multiples loom large in our cultural and historical imaginations.
The skate icon hits a half-pipe in Riverside Park and considers his last-ever video part.
How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.
Walking and talking with my friend Dawn.
There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.”
After his heart attack in 2019, the Vermont senator’s presidential bid was in dire need of a boost from a young star. (“We were circling the drain,” says one staffer.) But, as Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen recount in an excerpt of The Truce, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had some serious hang-ups.
When New York State opened its borders to individuals seeking abortions—three years before the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision on January 22, 1973—it radically expanded access in America. But as The New Yorker documents in its film Deciding Vote, it wouldn’t have happened without the vote of one lawmaker.
Tumult in Trumpland: PB vs. West Palm, entrenched elites vs. Gen X newbies, Everglades Club vs. Carriage House.
Staring down the barrel of a tough reelection fight, the White House still has not selected a nominee to lead the Department of Interior office charged with cleaning up this country’s festering stock of toxic old coal mines. The decidedly unsexy sounding Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, or OSMRE, has not had a director since the Trump administration. Its job is only getting bigger. For example: In 2021, auditors working for the Republican-controlled West Virginia state legislature... Читать дальше...
The common denominator of the best ghost stories, from the canon to the campfire, is closure. Or a lack thereof; as Salman Rushdie asked in The Satanic Verses, what is a spirit but unfinished business? The voices that whisper in the night, whether they’re in the walls or in our heads, are trying to tell us something, even—and sometimes especially—if it’s too late.
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I know that you come here for my honeyed prose and can’t bear the idea of turning away, but I have to recommend that you watch the video below. It’s a clip of Donald Trump speaking in Concord, New Hampshire, last Friday night. He’s laying into Nikki Haley. That’s nothing new; he’s been doing a lot of that. What’s new is the topic. He’s criticizing Haley for her failure to act on January 6.
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Sources claim Billy Joel has made it his mission to help ex-wife Christie Brinkley find love again after her split from John Mellencamp.
In a shocking incident that has left the community in Burgas reeling, 24-year-old Georgi Gendjov has been charged by the prosecutor's office for the particularly cruel murder of his mother, Radka Gesheva. Described as the epitome of cruelty by investigators, the murder unfolded in a cold-blooded and purposeful manner, devoid of any semblance of remorse on the part of the accused. The victim, a teacher, Radka Gesheva, endured more than 40 cuts inflicted by two knives, one of which broke during the horrific attack. Читать дальше...
Today is the 51st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Now Americans in 21 states face dangerous decisions about abortion and health care.
Chicagoans who use wheelchairs and mobility aids say it’s challenging to navigate the city’s sidewalks when extreme weather grips the region.
Julia Battern of Mankato East High School was recently honored with a state conservation award for her work teaching students to tackle environmental issues.
