A new film about Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a rare window into a relationship that usually goes undocumented. | Continue reading
Regardless of the legal obstacles to convicting the former President, Hutchinson’s testimony reconfirmed that he must never again be allowed anywhere near power. | Continue reading
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Pauline Kael’s 1982 review of Ridley Scott’s futuristic thriller “Blade Runner,” starring Harrison Ford. | Continue reading
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Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of the Google Maps guessing game. | Continue reading
"we are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy" # | Continue reading
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Privacy rights protect personal autonomy and shield survivors of abuse. They also conceal abuse and safeguard the powerful. Is the concept coherent? | Continue reading
On June 21st, the Pulitzer Prize winner discusses technology, memory, and her work, including her latest novel, with The New Yorker’s fiction editor. The conversation will be part of The New Yorker Live Summer Series, exclusively for subscribers. | Continue reading
He fought for liberties, undaunted by his persecutors—and took liberties, unconcerned for his victims. Can we make sense of the Enlightenment libertine? | Continue reading
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A chaotic Twitter account has become one of America’s most incisive ongoing works of social criticism. | Continue reading
Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct? | Continue reading
Tartine, a beloved San Francisco bakery, wanted to grow. Partnering with a developer was one way to rise. | Continue reading
Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created a masterpiece of conceptual art. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? | Continue reading
The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists. | Continue reading
His new autobiography adds another title to his enormous stack, but does it deepen the plot? | Continue reading
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Nonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them? | Continue reading
Days after the city bid farewell to its “last pay phone” with much hoopla, one sleuth reported on several remaining phone booths—by making calls from said phone booths. | Continue reading
Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed by the landed, and the age of private property was born. | Continue reading
In a bubble of time-gone-by that hadn’t yet burst, a beaten-down beatnik tried his luck at bookselling. | Continue reading
Threat assessment aims to prevent attacks like the Uvalde school shooting. Studies suggest that it’s effective in other ways. | Continue reading
We’ve supersized our capacity to ship stuff across the seas. As our global supply chains grow, what can we gather from the junk that washes up on shore? | Continue reading
The story behind “The Manchurian Candidate” and its Cold War-centric focus on brainwashing. | Continue reading
From 2007: Oliver Sacks on Clive Wearing, an English musician struck by a devastating brain infection that left him with retrograde amnesia and a memory span of only seconds. | Continue reading
A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? | Continue reading
What’s the difference between true love and delusion? That we believe in it? This question comes to a head in the show’s fourth-season finale. | Continue reading
The new express train is four years late, wildly over budget, and beautiful as hell. | Continue reading
Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom. | Continue reading
On an evening seven years ago this month, a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist named Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel A.M.E. Church on Calhoun Street, in Charleston, South Carolina, pulled a semi-automatic handgun, and murdered nine Black congregants, in the midst of their Bibl … | Continue reading
There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. | Continue reading
Whistle-blowers say that a group called the Banditos functions as a shadow government within local law enforcement. The sheriff says there is no such gang in his department. | Continue reading
On the trail of cyberextortionists. | Continue reading
A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond. | Continue reading
From the velocipede to the ten-speed, biking innovations brought riders freedom. But in a world built for cars, life behind handlebars is both charmed and dangerous. | Continue reading
For decades, the effects of automation have been fiercely debated. Are we missing the bigger picture? | Continue reading
Some thoughts on the art of the newspaper lede. | Continue reading
Critics say that big-time donors wield too much power over their fellow-citizens and perpetuate social inequality. But don’t cancel Lady Bountiful just yet. | Continue reading
I am one hundred years old and first voted in the Presidential election of 1944, while stationed with the Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific. I did this by mail, of course, and recall that this privilege was heavily shared by my fellow-G.I.s.(newyorker.com) | Continue reading
A new report suggests that the money Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell. | Continue reading
“I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.” | Continue reading
CLAIM: Running very fast in circles around my legs while we are waiting for your mother by the baggage claim will hurry her arrival and pass the time. … | Continue reading
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/coffeezilla-the-youtuber-exposing-crypto-scams Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31377405 Points: 69 # Comments: 10 | Continue reading
Edward Snowden is being hailed in some quarters as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in … | Continue reading
Will Wright changed the concept of video games with the Sims. Can he do it again with Spore? | Continue reading