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In this episode, a gun blogger critiques the N.R.A., and a Presbyterian minister rewrites old hymns for new crises. (episode)
The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos talks to Mike Weisser about guns, the N.R.A., and his unusual stance on firearms.
Carolyn Gillette, a hymn writer and Presbyterian minister, crafts lyrics that reflect our contemporary struggles.
The writer Mary Karr has a fetish for high-heeled shoes. She just can’t wear them anymore.
Anita Sarkeesian used free speech to critique video games. Others used hate speech to threaten her life. But they couldn’t silence her.
Suggestions from Jack Handey to make your Fourth of July celebration truly the bomb.
A prominent gun blogger and lifelong NRA member explains how the organization uses fear to get its way. (article)
In this episode, Samantha Bee talks about her response to the Orlando shooting, and we speculate about the empty ninth seat on the Supreme Court. (episode)
When Samantha Bee went on air a day after the Orlando shooting, she didn’t try to contain her grief and rage.
Do you have what it takes to fill the Supreme Court’s ninth seat? Take this quiz to find out!
What would a Supreme Court with judges appointed by Hillary Clinton mean for America?
Was the Web doomed to be a “giant manipulation service,” or did we do something wrong?
Bob Bozic, a Serbian bartender and raconteur, quits New York to reclaim his father’s mansion, in Belgrade.
In this episode, three recordings from The New Yorker Festival, including conversations with the late architect Zaha Hadid and the actor Damian Lewis, plus a debate over cats and dogs. (episode)
A debate as old as human society—which makes a better pet, cats or dogs?—will be settled once and for all by New Yorker staff writers.
The British actor Damian Lewis, who starred in “Homeland” and now in “Billions,” talks about his lifelong embrace of American culture.
The late architect Zaha Hadid discusses growing up in liberal, cosmopolitan Baghdad.
In this episode, Kalief Browder talks about the years he spent in solitary without being convicted; we consider “Hamilton” and immigration; plus, what dog owners are really thinking. (episode)
Small talk between strangers with dogs can be excruciating. But it also has its rewards.
David Remnick talks with Oskar Eustis, of New York’s Public Theatre, about theatre’s role in promoting social change.
Michelle Williams tells the New Yorker theatre critic Hilton Als why every performance of “Blackbird” feels death-defying.
The New Yorker staffer Jennifer Gonnerman revisits her interviews with Kalief Browder, whose suicide last year called attention to the excessive use of solitary confinement in prisons.
An Italo Calvino novel it’s not too late to read, and a great new way to spend even more time online.
The composer Michael Friedman puts a college student’s anxiety about the election to music.