Triage,” Claudia Rankine’s new book, opens at a scene of inquisition. At a podium, under a spotlight, a theorist is asked a ...

In the second decade of the twentieth century—a period that became known as la Matanza—the killing of residents of Mexican descent was commonplace along the United States’ southern border. People were ...

You’re reading our Flash Fiction series, very short stories posted weekly during the summer. God alone knows why I limp. My right leg is considerably shorter than ...

In March, I accompanied an international team of scientists on an expedition to one of the deepest places that humans have ever visited, a few hours outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Before sunrise, ...

Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.

Francesca Hong’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.

In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and ...

You live in one of the most violent parts of Britain, encompassing seven of England’s ten most deprived neighborhoods. It’s a place where twenty-five in every thousand people use crack cocaine or ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The journalist Michelle Lhooq joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her reporting on ibogaine, a psychedelic ...

Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer, has been contributing investigative reporting to The New Yorker since 2006. His coverage of crime and corruption has ranged from the mystery of a teen’s drowning ...

If you’re after further dissections of Lone Star State mythology: Carmen Boullosa’s historical fiction “ Texas: the Great Theft ,” from 2014, is a sprawling tale of nineteenth-century land theft in ...

Last week, Perez Hilton went live on TikTok and self-harmed. Brady Brickner-Wood writes about our live-streaming nightmare.