Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was already held in favorable regard by the American public before the Supreme Court nominee sat for Senate confirmation hearings. But her popularity grew even more after the hearings, thanks to a tag team of Republicans who sought to portray her as soft on child pornography criminals, uncertain about the definition…Continue Reading
The upcoming repeal of a Trump-era edict that has effectively barred asylum seekers from crossing the southern border was the first good news in a long time for President Joe Biden’s beleaguered allies in the immigrant-rights movement.But then the Biden administration announced plans to keep expelling people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border for nearly…Continue Reading
I started as the art editor for The New Yorker in 1993 and was fortunate enough to be mentored by Saul Steinberg. Although I was nominally his editor, the age difference (Saul was in his seventies at the time), combined with the fact that he was a wonderful conversationalist, turned our visits into enchanted afternoon-long…Continue Reading
This week’s story, “The Pub with No Beer,” is set in a pub, in the West of Ireland, that’s been shuttered by the pandemic. Was this a story that you started writing under lockdown?We were coming out of a long and intense lockdown, in late spring of last year, when I began the story. The…Continue Reading
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the cookbook author Olia Hercules was working on new springtime recipes and preparing to file her taxes. Hercules lives with her family in North London, but she grew up in Kakhovka, in southern Ukraine, about a two hours’ drive from the Crimean border. In her first cookbook, “Mamushka,” she collected…Continue Reading
Métis and Inuit leaders, who met the Pope at the Vatican last week, return home with a lot of work ahead to move reconciliation and justice forward with the Roman Catholic Church, especially in preparation for a papal visit to Canada that could happen as early as July.From left to right: First Nations N.W.T. Regional Chief…Continue Reading
Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Kevin Barry reads his story “The Pub with No Beer,” from the April 11, 2022, issue of…Continue Reading
The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government’s sanctions enforcement initiative to ‘seize and freeze’ giant boats and other pricey assets of Russian elites.A member of Spain’s Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in…Continue Reading
China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading outbreak in its largest city under its zero-COVID strategy.A medical worker collects sample swab sample from residents in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western…Continue Reading
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is introducing legislation to temporarily reduce gasoline and fuel taxes.In a news release issued Monday morning, the Ontario government said if passed, the gas tax would be reduced by 5.7 cents per litre and the fuel tax by 5.3 cents per litre for a period of six months beginning July 1. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian…Continue Reading
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