The New Yorker Radio Hour

It’s the time of year when many people feel an overpowering urge to dig—to plant their back yard or

Tom Hanks has been a constant presence on the American movie screen for forty years. He has played a

In June, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit will go to trial in Montana. The case, Held v. Montana, centers

The last time the Writers Guild of America hit the picket line was fifteen years ago, with a strike

A troubling question looms over the Kriegskinder, Germans who were children during the Second World

Just a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headli

On May 6th, King Charles will become the oldest person to ascend the throne of the United Kingdom. H

We take it for granted that entertainers can—and probably should—advocate for the causes they believ

Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—railing

Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President

The cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas—the island-hop

“The Thanksgiving Play” is a play about the making of a play. Four performers struggle to devise a T

A ban of the Chinese social-media app TikTok, first floated by the Trump Administration, is now gain

Margo Price moved to Nashville from rural Illinois at the age of nineteen. After struggling for year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed law changing the judiciary is described as a reform. To

In the late nineteen-seventies and into the eighties, Brooke Shields was one of the most famous and

In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a b

H. G. Carrillo was a writer’s writer—not a household name, but esteemed in literary circles. He bega

The prescription drug Ozempic was designed to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their disease,

The pontificate of Pope Francis, which just reached its tenth year, has brought a greater willingnes