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Kristen Wiig plays a bride whose idea for her wedding hair is out of control. And the Reverend William Barber tells David Remnick that politics needs to get religion again. (episode)
William J. Barber II, a pastor and political activist, wants our politics to get religion again. But conservative Christians, he thinks, are deeply confused about Christ’s teachings.
Psychiatry’s professional code forbids the diagnosis of public figures (like Presidents) from afar. Some doctors would like to scrap that rule.
Kristen Wiig plays a bride with a very, very specific idea of how she wants her hair to look.
In “Mother Land,” the travel writer Paul Theroux describes a small nation under despotic rule: his family.
A David Bowie-like song by the indie rock group Shearwater is a recent favorite of The New Yorker’s Emily Greenhouse.