2021: NEW YORKER (357)

JANUARY

Is Substack The Media Future We Want?

Can Democrats Win Georgia – and the Senate?

The Push To Make Child Care Pivotal In Georgia

Trump’s Authoritarian Moment Is Here

Trump’s Alarming Call To Battle In Georgia

A Violent Insurrection Is What Trump Wanted

How Social Media Made The Trump Insurrection A Reality

An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached The Senate

The Inciter-In-Chief

The Case For Removing Donald Trump

Trump Can’t Be Allowed To Escape Justice Again

What We Could Learn From A Second Impeachment Trial

The House Impeaches Trump Again

How El Anatsui Broke The Seal On Contemporary Art

Among The Insurrectionists

The Georgia Dad Who Said That He Wanted To Kill Nancy Pelosi

A Reporter’s Video From Inside The Capitol Siege

The Long Prologue To The Capitol Hill Riot

Obituary For A Failed Presidency

Have We Already Been Visited By Aliens?

The Week The Trump Supporters Disappeared

Why Mitch McConnell Dumped Donald Trump

Navalny’s Long-Running Battle With Putin Enters A New Phase

Biden’s Vital But Fraught Battle Against Domestic Terrorism

Making Sense of Scents

Biden’s Pandemic Plan Might Just Work

Did Trump And His Supporters Commit Treason?

Chronicles Of A Bubble-Tea Addict

How Black Lives Matter Came To The Academy

A New Day For The Climate

FEBRUARY

A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path To Insurrection

The Sputnik V Vaccine and Russia’s Race to Immunity

Biden Is Playing It Cool With Netanyahu

The Uncertain Future Of A Casino Worker In Atlantic City

The Risks Of Trump’s Impeachment Trial

The Next CyberAttack Is Already Under Way

What’s At Stake In Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial

The Worst-Hit County In The Worst-Hit State In The Worst-Hit Country

What’s at Stake In The Fight Over Reopening Schools

Trump’s Lawyers Refuse To Seriously Engage With Impeachment

What The Impeachment Trial Tells Us About The Biden Administration

Inside The Making Of Facebook’s Supreme Court

History Will Find Trump Guilty

The Fight For Fifteen At An Orlando McDonald’s

A Survival Center Tries To Survive The Pandemic

The Voice That Gets Lost Online

The Age Of Peak Advice

The Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power

The Sound And The Fury Of Cuomo

The Awful Uncertainty Of The Coronavirus Death Toll

Why Is the Pandemic Hitting Some Countries Harder?

Republicans Act As If They, Not Merrick Garland, Were Unfairly Treated

The Secret Life Of The White House

Seeking The True Story Of The Comfort Women

Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State

Anthony Hopkins Remembers It All

A Deportation Nightmare In The Bronx

MARCH

A Year In America’s First COVID Epicenter

When The Kids Started Getting Sick

How To Practice

The Wasting Of The Evangelical Mind

The Vaccine Resisters

The Best Movie Performances Of The Century So Far

What the Coronavirus Variants Mean For The Pandemic’s End

The Rise Of Made-In-China Diplomacy

L.A.’s Disorganized Vaccine Rollout

The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation

Cancel Culture Is Not A Movement

Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump?

A Kansas Bookshop Fights Amazon Over More Than Books

The Most Economically Liberal Legislation In Decades

Behind The Scenes At A Five-Star Hotel

How Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms

The Making Of The New Left

The Pastry A.I. That Learned To Fight Cancer

The Atlanta Shooting And The Dehumanizing Of Asian Women

A Brief Anatomy Of Outdoor Dining

The High Cost Of Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Bills

How Beeple Crashed The Art World

Should Gig Work Be Government-Run?

How Do Plague Stories End?

The Amazon Union Drive And The Changing Politics Of Labor

The Revolution in Classic Tetris

The Rise Of Therapy-Speak

Biden And The Blame Game At The Border

Why Was Maria Gonzalez Detained After The Atlanta Shooting?

Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter

How Bellingcat Unmasked Putin’s Assassins

APRIL

Why Animals Don’t Get Lost

The Rise Of The Athlete Podcaster

The Politics Of Stopping Pandemics

Eddie Huang Has Come Down From The Mountain

Surviving The Xinjiang Crackdown

Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment

The Messy Art Of Life

Changing The Story, In Court And Onstage

Why It’s So Hard For America To End Its Wars

A Cautionary Tale Of Harassment In The Cuomo Administration

The Limits Of Political Debate

When A Vaccine Last Saved America

The Naming Of New York

Daunte Wright’s Shooting And The Meaning Of George Floyd’s Death

The Lessons Of America’s Longest War

Andrew Cuomo, Matt Gaetz, And “Never Resign” Politics

My Grandfather Fled The Nazis. I Moved To His Old Neighborhood

North Korea’s Hacking Army

A Doctor’s Dark Year

The Role Of Bystanders In Derek Chauvin’s Conviction

E-Scooters Come To New York

Getting The Shot

The Killing Of Adam Toledo And Chicago’s Cycles Of Violence

Peter Singer Is Committed To Controversial Ideas

Did Home Economics Empower Women?

“What’s The Time, Mr. Wolf?”

A New Translation Of The Gospels

The Lonely Work Of Medical Interpretation

How The Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously

MAY

Kathryn Garcia Doesn’t Want Andrew Yang’s Praise

John Swartzwelder, Sage Of “The Simpsons”

Does Your Wine Really Taste Like Rocks?

Inside India’s Covid-19 Surge

Separated From Her Children By Trump, A Mother Comes Home

On The Border, Two Versions Of One Immigration Reality

The Movement For Police And Prison Abolition

Don’t Panic Over One Weaker-Than-Expected Jobs Report

The Politics Behind India’s COVID Crisis

Robinhood’s Big Gamble

Solving An Old Soviet Mystery

Who Gets To Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”?

Hamas and Netanyahu’s Dangerous Gamble

The Rise Of The Thielists

Can Horse Racing Survive?

Saying Her Name

Burnout: Modern Affliction Or Human Condition?

Learnedleague And The Spirit Of Trivia

The Promise And Perils Of Fertility Entrepreneurs

The G.O.P. Looks For New Ways To Ignore January 6th

Even With A Ceasefire, Israel Must Face A Changed Reality

Eric Adams Wants To Compstat New York City

The Struggle To Vaccinate New York’s Latinos

The Price Of A New York City Cop

Approaching The End Of The American Pandemic

What Robots Can Do For The Old

The Sudden Rise Of The Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory

Trying To Speak With The Dead

How Did Rights Take Over Politics?

The Dangers Of The Supreme Court’s Decision To Hear A Mississippi Abortion Case

Negotiating With Hackers

JUNE

The Business Of Basketball

Battling Over Big Business

The Age of Reopening Anxiety

Chaos In The Andes

Is There Time Left For Maya Wiley?

What Gets Lost As Little Leagues Get Smaller

How A City Comes Back To Life

Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic

The Dark, Democratizing Power Of The Social-Media Stock Market

Fighting For The Heart Of The Southern Baptist Convention

What Did Covid Do To Friendship?

The Big Stakes And Deep Weirdness Of The Last Days Of New York City’s Mayoral Race

The Formidable Charm Of Omar Sy

The Rise Of Black Homeschooling

Does Tech Need A New Narrative?

Iran Moves Toward A One-Party State

Can Trump’s Damage To The State Department Be Reversed?

Inventing The Conflict Over Critical Race Theory

What Is Going On At Yale Law School?

Why So Many N.Y.C. Politicians Are Courting Paperboy Prince

The Man Who Controls The Senate

Four Stories From The Arctic

The Delta Variant Presents A Grave Danger

The Promise And Peril Of A High-Priced Sleep Trainer

After The Lost Cause

The Unexplained Phenomena Of The U.F.O. Report

The Supreme Court’s Surprising Term

Joe Biden’s Mighty Ambitions

Lina Hidalgo’s Political Rise

What Deadlines Do To Lifetimes

JULY

Can Infrastructure Spending Save Ogdensburg, New York?

New York City’s Needless Election Fiasco

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare

Derek Chauvin’s Trial And George Floyd’s City

Why Did The Police Shoot Matthew Zadok Williams?

The Hockey Sister

Eric Adams’s Victory

Being In Time

Biden’s Invisible Ideology

“Unread Messages”

My Pandemic Pregnancy

When The Masks Came Off

Jenny Erpenbeck Is Keeping Time

President Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold press conference

Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hotspot

Mike White On Money, Status, and Appearing On “Survivor”

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children With Pedophiles

Does Crossfit Have A Future?

Lyubov Sobol’s Hope For Russia

Are Americans More Trusting Than They Seem?

The Exuberance Of Ivo Dimchev

The Case For Masking Up Again Indoors In N.Y.C.

Aly Raisman Still Wants Answers

Can Affirmative Action Survive?

Waiting For Chess’s First Woman World Champion

The Secret Source Who Helped Fuel Trump’s Big Lie

The Trial of Chesa Boudin

The Art Of The Hollywood Memoir

What Should Hang On The Walls Of A Hospital?

AUGUST

The Pandemic Enters An Uncertain New Phase

Happy-Go-Lucky

The Epic Style Of Kerry James Marshall

The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?

Iran Inaugurates A President Tied To A Massacre

Vaccinating Springfield, Missouri

Takeaways From July’s Jobs Report

Michael Stipe Wants To Make Mistakes

Finding A Way Back From Suicide

Cuomo’s War Against A Federal Prosecutor

A Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell

How Will The Coronavirus Evolve?

The Vindication Of Andrew Cuomo’s Accusers

The Return Of The Taliban

The Great Retreat From Afghanistan

Exposing the Human Costs Of Incarceration

Is It Time To Break Up Big AG?

The Skycoin Saga

Chasing The Lava Flow In Iceland

David Petraeus On American Mistakes In Afghanistan

After The Earthquake, A Mayor In Haiti Tries To Console His Town

Have You Already Had A Breakthrough Covid Infection?

Watch The New Yorker Live: The Return Of Broadway

Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s The Secret?

The Real C.E.O. Of “Succession”

Should The Government Impose A Vaccination Mandate?

The Mayoral Candidate With A Mouth That Roars

U.S. Retaliation For The Kabul Bombing Won’t Stop ISIS Or End Terrorism

Martin Short Plays Bit By Bit

Why We Wanted To Believe Martha Stewart’s Promises

Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal From Afghanistan Is Complete

SEPTEMBER

The Red Warning Light On Richard Branson’s Space Flight

The Big business Of Library E-Books

Forgetting My First Language

It’s Still The Coronavirus Economy

The Manifold Threats Of The Texas Abortion Law

The Other Afghan Women

Convincing Progressives That Genetics Matters

Gavin Newsom And The Golden State’s Recall Fever

Who Lost The Sex Wars?

Honoring United Flight 93

What The 9/11 Museum Remembers And Forgets

Carmelo Anthony Still Feels Like He’s Proving Himself

A Syrian War Criminal And Double Agent’s Disappearance

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

Growing Uncertainty In The Central Valley

Talking About Climate Across The Political Divide

The Most Important Statistics Of Biden’s Presidency

The Promise Of Carbon-Neutral Steel

Rick Steves Says Hold On To Your Travel Dreams

Inside Purdue Pharma’s Bankruptcy

Defining Long Covid

An Architectural Vanishing Act

My Family Was A Covid Cluster

On The Internet, We’re Always Famous

The U.S.’s History Of Mistreating Haitian Migrants

Trapped In Afghanistan

R. Kelly Is Found Guilty, Twenty-Five Years Too Late

A Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Woman

Trump Still Faces A Reckoning

How Bad Is Biden’s Slump?

OCTOBER

The Democratic Civil War Has A Winner: Donald Trump

Britain’s Lost Opposition Party

The Mysterious Alchemy Of Sketch Comedy

Biden And The Democrats Need To Make Hard Spending Choices

Fatty Arbuckle And The Birth Of The Celebrity Scandal

A Botched Circumcision

The Inconsistency Of American Feminism In The Muslim World

Facebook’s Moral Bankruptcy

Courts And The Crisis At Rikers Island

Diane Williams Will Never Be Dutiful

Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want To Stop The Show

The Mysterious Lab-Leak Theory

The Great Bridge Boycott

Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties For Fake Crimes

The Trump Presidency Is Still An Active Crime Scene

Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Problem

Edlie Falco knows How To Let Go

A Chicago High School Reopens

A Syrian Seed Bank’s Fight To Survive

How An Adoption Broker Cashed In On Prospective Parents’ Dreams

A Black Communist’s Disappearance In Stalin’s Russia

Reckoning With Monuments In The American North

The Power Of Dave Chappelle’s Comedy

How Patrick Soon-Shiong Made His Fortune Before Buying The L.A. Times

When A Witness Recants

What Is It About Peter Thiel?

The Arab-Israeli Power Broker In The Knesset

Another Buffalo Is Possible

Would N.Y.C. Employees Rather Lose A Paycheck Than Get Vaccinated?

Stanley Tucci Is Savoring It All

NOVEMBER

The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters

Energy, And How To Get It

The Most Ambitious Diary In History

Uncovering The Secret Offshore Accounts Of The Global Elite

A Strong Jobs Report Gives Democrats A Reason To Hope

The Most Ambitious Diary in History

Running Out Of Time At The U.N. Climate Conference

Inside The Democrats’ Battle To Build Back Better

The Great Organic-Food Fraud

What it’s Like To Fight A Megafire

Deer Wars And Death Threats

Richard Rusczyk’s Worldwide Math Camp

How Britney Spears Got Free, And What Comes Next

Lin-Manuel Miranda Goes In Search Of Lost Time

Your Family Tree Could Catch A Killer

What Happened To Gun Culture

Can Russia’s Press Ever Be Free?

Davone Tines Is Changing What It Means To Be A Classical Singer

“Wokeness” Is Not The Problem

The Outsized Meaning Of The Rittenhouse Verdict

How Will The Covid Pills Change The Pandemic?

A Luxury Vacation In The Middle Of Nowhere

The Uncertain Fate Of An Alpine Mountain Lodge

How The World’s Foremost Maze-Maker Leads People Astray

Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets

The Best Music Of 2021

Stephen Sondheim Taught Me How To Be A Person

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out Of Europe

Lina Khan’s Battle To Rein In Big Tech

DECEMBER

The Science Of Mind Reading

Trump’s Covid Coverup

The First Wave Of Digital Nostalgia

Will The Omicron Travel Restrictions Work?

The Year In Vibes

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, The Accidental Revolutionary

The Year In New Yorker Photography

The 1619 Project And The Demands Of Public History

Creating A Better Leaf

The Secret History Of The U.S. Diplomatic Failure In Afghanistan

Paul Thomas Anderson On What Makes A Movie Great

The Best Books We Read This Year

Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change The Way We Write?

The Secret History Of The U.S. Diplomatic Failure In Afghanistan

An Education While Incarcerated

A Political Philosopher Is Hopeful About The Democrats

The Rio Grande Valley’s Abortion Desert

Mark Meadows And the G.O.P. Response To The January 6th Investigation

How To Think About The Risks Of Omicron

What COVID Burnout Is Doing To New York City’s Schools

Escaping Into The Crossword Puzzle

Why Biden Refused To Pay Restitution To Families Separated At The Border

Joan Didon And The Opposite Of Magical Thinking

“Greetings, Frends!”

What Lois Lowry Remembers

Dan Bongino And The Big Business Of Returning Trump To Power

China’s Reform Generation Adapts To Live In The Middle Class

The Looming Threat Of A Nuclear Crisis With Iran

Bridget Everett Is Larger Than Life

Joe Biden’s Year Of Hoping Dangerously

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