The filmmaker and writer discusses her abusive relationship with New York’s former attorney general, and the harassment allegations against the current governor.

The former President is positioning himself and his audience as the only true Americans.

After pressure from families, Pennsylvania has launched studies into whether fracking can be linked to local illnesses.

Twelve months after Seattle suffered the first reported coronavirus death in the U.S., city leaders reflect on what has worked—and what remains agonizingly broken.

The U.S. gave the Saudi Crown Prince a pass for the murder of the Washington Post columnist, which autocrats may see as a green light for abuse.

Arrested for jaywalking, a DACA recipient spent the pandemic in ICE detention because of what New York City officials admit was an “operational error.” He could be deported as soon as next week.

In the nineteen-seventies, social workers in several states placed queer teen-agers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.

Police chiefs have tended to dismiss the political activities of their officers as their First Amendment right to express themselves.

For decades, the Soviet regime suppressed public discussion of the bloody Novocherkassk protests, which are now dramatized in Russia’s Oscars entry.

Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.

Were Americans too unruly, or did elected officials expect too little of them?

BlackRock’s C.E.O. says divestment from fossil-fuel stocks would be “greenwashing.”

The Russian regime has used both its vast media infrastructure and its judicial system to vilify its opponents.

The residence staff, many of whom have worked there for decades, balance their service of the First Family with their long-term loyalty to the house itself.

Evidence about sanctions’ poor track record has been around for years, yet Presidents often seem at a loss to do anything else.

A veteran war correspondent, Mogelson won the National Reporting prize for his coverage of unrest in America in 2020.

Ted Cruz’s arrogance is hard to match, but he was not the only Republican whose questioning was, to put it generously, lacking in perspective.

Mackey discusses his book “Conscious Leadership,” the labor issues that arose at Whole Foods during the pandemic, his business philosophy, and running a company as part of Amazon.

In principle, the U.S. is again committed to inclusive international diplomacy. In practice, Trump so rattled the global order that the damage endures after he has gone.

The new number—half a million Americans dead—is only an approximation of the pandemic’s real effects.

In the face of climate change, some environmentalists are fighting not to close power plants but to save them.

Long before Donald Trump arrived, there was reason to be skeptical of impeachment’s power.

In Native communities where tribal health organizations are in charge of distributing the vaccine, herd immunity is on the horizon.

Assemblyman Ron Kim was bathing his children when he got an unexpected call from the governor.

The New Yorker staff writer assesses the vaccination campaign so far, new mutations, and when it might be possible to enter public spaces safely without a mask.