When Betts was sixteen years old, he was sent to prison for his part in a carjacking. In solitary confinement, he discovered poetry.

A few months ago, Jonathan was released from prison. Our producer shadowed him to learn what emancipation feels like after two decades of being locked up.

In 2010, Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book spelled out how mass incarceration harms communities of color. Assessing its impact, she looks back, and forward, with David Remnick.

The reporter Eric Lach is in Iowa ahead of the next debate, as the candidates are honing their responses to the volatile situation with Iran.

An author who bought into the promises of Silicon Valley reflects on her gradual disenchantment, as reality intruded on the mystique.

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 celebrated interviewer opens up about finding her radio voice, and what she’s given up to host “Fresh Air.”

Previous Administrations had considered the Iranian military commander too dangerous to touch. Is the U.S. prepared for war with Iran?

A lifelong surfer reports on a machine-made wave that could finally make surfing a conventional sport—and potentially transform its spirit.