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Back to SearchPercival Everett’s “James” Wins a Pulitzer
A year ago, Percival Everett published his twenty-fourth novel, “James,” and it became a literary phenomenon. It won the National Book Award, and, ju…
8 months ago
Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”
When Elissa Slotkin narrowly won her Senate seat in Michigan last fall, she was one of only four Democratic senators to claim victory in a state that…
8 months ago
How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism
For a long time, Republicans and many Democrats espoused some version of free-trade economics that would have been familiar to Adam Smith. But Donald…
8 months, 1 week ago
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been undermining public trust in vaccines and overseeing crippling cuts to re…
8 months, 1 week ago
A Historical Epic of the Chinese in America
In recent years, there’s been a stark uptick in the level of violence and hate crimes that Asian Americans have experienced, but the “precarity of th…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Cory Booker: “America Needs Moral Leadership, and Not Political Leadership”
As Donald Trump continues to launch unprecedented and innovative attacks on immigrants, civic institutions, and the rule of law, the Democratic respo…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game
In the past few years, the comedian Nikki Glaser has breathed new life into the well-worn comedic form of the roast. Last year, she performed a roast…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE
Elon Musk, who’s chainsawing the federal government, is not merely a chaos agent, as he is sometimes described. Jill Lepore, the best-selling author …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners”
Ryan Coogler began his career in film as a realist with “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the story of a true-to-life tragedy about a police killing i…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?
Ruth Marcus resigned from the Washington Post after its C.E.O. killed an editorial she wrote that was critical of the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. She …
9 months ago