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In this episode, Andy Borowitz explains how the D.N.C. is like a Phil Collins music video from the eighties, and Patricia Marx practices archery at home. (episode)
John Cassidy explains how political resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is about more than just economics.
Jelani Cobb discusses the Obama Presidency’s effect on the Democratic Party.
A writer of satire thinks that the D.N.C. represents the audacity of cheesiness.
Jake Halpern investigates a legend about a Nazi train filled with treasure, hidden deep underground.
Patricia Marx missed the Olympic qualifying meets in archery, so she stayed home and practiced the sport in her living room. She wasn’t expecting to draw blood.
In this episode, the ghostwriter behind “The Art of the Deal” tells all, and Andy Borowitz reviews highlights of the Republican National Convention. (episode)
At the R.N.C. in Cleveland, Evan Osnos got a Chinese reporter’s take on the rise of Trump.
A satirical news columnist who makes up almost everything reviews an event stranger than fiction.
Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal,” finally speaks out after thirty years, and he’s full of regret.
The novelist Gary Shteyngart recommends a few of his favorite cultural things, including a cartoon series about a horse and the rapper Ice Cube.
For the poet Max Ritvo, writing poetry is a “safe space” during a losing battle with cancer.
Tony Schwartz spent more than a year with Trump back in 1986, ghostwriting his memoir. He hasn’t ever talked publicly about the experience of working with Trump—until now. (article)
The founder of Gawker on the “karmic justice” of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit; George Saunders on what makes Trump supporters tick; and Parker Posey on a camper from hell. (episode)
Elliot is really a sweet kid—it’s just that he bites. Hard. Parker Posey reads a short story by Demetri Martin.
After years of outing C.E.O.s, publishing sex tapes, and shaking up American journalism, Gawker finds itself in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
One of the great fiction writers of our time investigates who supports Donald Trump and why.
The composer Michael Friedman is travelling the country, setting voters’ deepest thoughts about the election to music.
As a kid, Slava Epstein dreamed of studying space; instead, he found uncharted territory in the vast realm of bacteria.
In this episode, John McPhee reflects on a lifetime of writing; we explore the future of Brexit; and a reporter nearly loses everything after forgetting his iPod passcode. (episode)
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, in the park, to inadvertently witness the dramatic breakup of these two people we have never met.
The “yes” vote on Brexit seems to have shocked even its proponents, and the turmoil in Britain now actually strengthens the cause of E.U. integration.
John McPhee was eight years old when he decided to become a writer; seventy-seven years later, he looks back on his singular career with his former student David Remnick.
A reporter stored crucial materials from an African reporting trip on an iPod Touch. Now he’s forgotten the passcode—and has only two tries left before the material is wiped out.
A Manhattan bartender decided to reclaim his father’s mansion in Belgrade. When he went to move in, things got complicated.
Fiction writer George Saunders takes to the Trump campaign trail, and a new understanding of America emerges. (article)
In this episode, Patrick Radden Keefe on the drug dealers who may help bring El Chapo to justice, and David Remnick talks to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza. (episode)
Before Sean Penn caught up with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Flores twins helped lead authorities to the drug kingpin. Here's how that bust went down.
David Remnick talks to Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, about the aspirations of the organization and why she won't support Hillary Clinton.
Acclaimed fiction writer Nathan Englander has always worked around the clock, but now he is trying the notoriously grueling CrossFit.
Larry Wood has won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption contest seven times. He shares his tricks with The New Yorker's Susan Morrison.
Santa Fe’s cowboy past and its New Age present collide in these short sketches from Jack Handey.