My son hadn’t even been born when I started secretly writing him a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, I ...

In most states, the highest-paid public employee is a football coach. Lately, more and more of them are getting money to go ...

The narrator is out walking the family’s dog when a man suddenly appears in her path. She realizes, with dread, that it’s a person who’s been stalking her. After initially becoming fixated on her, he ...

The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: “Elevators!” The ...

The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause.

The crowd inside had been lined up for hours to hear from Abigail Spanberger, the former congresswoman running for governor, and Pete Buttigieg, her star surrogate for the night. But the Science Guy, ...

Alex Barasch A culture editor and horror-movie aficionado.

The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his ...

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, his apartment, his allowance, his shining boots, and, most profoundly, his ...

The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to ...

Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly ...

The “Daily Show” host talks with David Remnick about his contract with Paramount Skydance, the government’s attack on political satire, and how our institutions got so weak.