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After more than seventy years, the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings cannot simply be dismissed. Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what’s changed, and why. (article)
After more than seventy years, the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings can no longer be dismissed. Plus, Dorothy Wickenden on three revolutionary women. (episode)
After more than seventy years, the government is publicly acknowledging that mysterious sightings cannot simply be dismissed. Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains what’s changed, and why.
The story of three small-town neighbors who fought for both abolition and women’s rights in the nineteenth century—a time when women weren’t supposed to fight for anything.
Nearly a century ago, hundreds of children were sent from war-torn Spain to a Mexican orphanage. The granddaughter of one of those children tells her story. (article)
The staff writer, who covered George Floyd’s killing and the protests that followed, on whether the verdict will lead to greater police accountability. (article)
Nearly a century ago, five hundred Spanish children were sent away from violence and hunger for a new life in Mexico. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the conviction of Derek Chauvin. (episode)
The staff writer, who covered George Floyd’s killing and the protests that followed, on whether the verdict will lead to greater police accountability.
Nearly a century ago, hundreds of children were sent from war-torn Spain to a Mexican orphanage. The granddaughter of one of those children tells her family’s story.
The Biden Administration seems poorly prepared for the surge in numbers of people arriving at the border; it didn’t need to be that way, our immigration reporter says.
The largest civilian internment since the Holocaust is taking place in China, where Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up in vast numbers. What can the world do about it? (article)
The largest civilian internment since the Holocaust is taking place in China, where Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up in vast numbers. What can the world do about it? (episode)
The staff writer Raffi Khatchadourian explains how Xi Jinping’s government used an obsession with “stability” to justify a genocide against ethnic Uyghurs and Kazhaks.
Accounts from a camp survivor and a woman who fled detainment show how life in the Chinese region came to resemble a prison, even outside the walls of the camps.
The State Department has determined that genocide is taking place in China against ethnic minorities. The 2022 Winter Olympics are in Beijing. What should the world do about Xinjiang?
A Kazakh woman imprisoned for more than a year without explanation reads the poem she wrote about a lonely night looking through the barbed wire.
The pop star’s new memoir explores the joys and the chaos of a life of travelling, which started when she was not far into her teens. She reads as a modern Huck Finn. (article)
A New Yorker critic awards the best films of 2020, according to him. Plus, the cultural historian talks about America’s postwar flowering. (article)
The songwriter talks about her chaotic early life and her inability to settle down. Plus, in our annual tradition, the critic Richard Brody gives out his own slate of film awards. (episode)
A New Yorker critic picks 2020’s best films and performances, according to him.
The pop star’s new memoir explores the joys and the chaos of a life of travelling, which started when she was not far into her teens. She reads as a modern Huck Finn.
The staff writer and leading cultural historian on his new work about the postwar years, when the cultural power of the United States emerged alongside its military might.