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Master of Make-Believe
A struggling actor struck it rich in Hollywood—then the F.B.I. showed up.
By Evan Osnos
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Onward and Upward with the Arts
Behind the Scenes of a Short-Lived Broadway Musical
The theatre director Rachel Chavkin is known for unconventional hits such as “Hadestown.” Why did her latest Broadway project fail to catch on?
By Rachel Syme
Personal History
The Detroit Pistons Were My Father’s Second Family
Jack McCloskey built a championship team that was both loved and loathed. I only began to appreciate who he was years later.
By Molly McCloskey
Letter from Berlin
Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi
After the Berlin Wall fell, agents of East Germany’s secret police frantically tore apart their records. Archivists have spent the past thirty years trying to restore them.
By Burkhard Bilger
A Reporter at Large
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
By Sharon Lerner
Commentary
Daily Comment
Vermont Moves to Hold Fossil-Fuel Companies Liable for Climate-Change Damage
A new constituency is willing to stand up to Big Oil (and Gas and Coal): state government.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Comment
Ukraine Faces a Crucial Moment in the War
Two years after Russia launched its invasion, the fighting is shifting in its favor.
By Joshua Yaffa
Daily Comment
The Pope Goes Prime-Time
Pope Francis’s appearance on “60 Minutes” is a first. What does it say about the papacy?
By Paul Elie
Daily Comment
What Raisi’s Death Means for the Future of Iran
For a country facing deep challenges, and with an aging Supreme Leader, the President’s demise has spawned an existential question: Who can sustain the revolution?
By Robin Wright
Conversations
Q. & A.
Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?
Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
The Biden Administration’s Have-It-Both-Ways Report on Gaza
A new assessment, produced by the State Department, found that Israel has likely violated international law—though it doesn’t find a reason to cut off military aid.
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
Does Biden Understand Netanyahu’s Aims in Gaza?
Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East negotiator, on the competing interests stymieing a hostage deal—and a possible end to the war.
By Isaac Chotiner
Q. & A.
Gaza’s Unexploded-Bomb Crisis
Clearing the territory of ordnance and rubble could pose a challenge unseen since the Second World War.
By Isaac Chotiner
From Our Columnists
Letter from Biden’s Washington
There Is Literally Nothing Trump Can Say That Will Stop Republicans from Voting for Him
On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.
By Susan B. Glasser
Letter from Biden’s Washington
On Trump and the Elusive Fantasy of a 2024 Election Game Changer
With a general-election debate and the ex-President’s criminal verdict looming, can anything move the immovable American electorate?
By Susan B. Glasser
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The New Yorker Radio Hour
“Love Is Blind,” and Allegedly Toxic
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit. Plus, Ilana Glazer’s buddy movie tackles the realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship.
With David Remnick
Our Local Correspondents
In the Bronx, Donald Trump Goes to His Hateful, Happy Place
“Like it or not, this is a rally,” the former President said, seemingly a little embarrassed by the unremarkable size of the crowd.
By Eric Lach
Fault Lines
Summer Camp and Parenting Panics
Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.
By Jay Caspian Kang
U.S. Journal
Not Your Childhood Library
An ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space.
By Paige Williams
The Political Scene
Lara Trump’s R.N.C. Sets Its Sights on—California?
In a state that could decide the fate of the House, Republican efforts may not be as futile as they seem.
By Antonia Hitchens
Dispatch
In Saudi Arabia, a Championship Fight Is Enjoyed with 7 UP
The kingdom has taken control of boxing, and watching Tyson Fury’s bout with Oleksander Usyk, in Riyadh, was a curious experience.
By Ed Caesar
Dispatch
Nova Scotia’s Billion-Dollar Lobster Wars
How Indigenous fishermen are defending their rights—and corporate profits—in the most lucrative fishery in North America.
By Abe Streep
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump and Michael Cohen Deserve Each Other
At the former President’s hush-money trial, Trump’s ex-lawyer is using his old boss’s playbook to help the prosecution.
By Eric Lach