It was supposed to be her honeymoon. In 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was twenty-four years old, and she and her new husband had travelled all the way to London from upstate New York to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention, the first global meeting of…

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Will Donald Trump sustain Benjamin Netanyahu’s preëmptive wars?

Zhao, a previous Oscar winner, for Best Director, discusses her acclaimed film with Michael Schulman.

Two years ago, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book about the dangers of social-media became a best-seller—and the subject of some critical eye-rolling. Now, for many, it’s become essential.

Christian nationalism was once a fringe ideology in America. The Secretary of War has ushered it into the heart of U.S. military force.

“Everything that surrounds my meeting with him has the color of shame”: so begins Susan Sontag’s story “Pilgrimage,” which appeared in this magazine in 1987. The meeting is with the exiled German novelist Thomas Mann, at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los…

In the summer of 2024, I was contacted by the casting director Jennifer Venditti, who asked if I was interested in auditioning for a small part in “Marty Supreme,” a forthcoming early-fifties period film directed by Josh Safdie. The role that she had in mind…

As Donald Trump offers U.S. asylum to Afrikaners, thousands are already working in the country on agricultural visas.

The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.

In 2025, the A.I. frontier lab Anthropic mustered Claude, its large language model, for national service. Although the military-industrial complex is newly fashionable, Anthropic was not a natural fit. The firm had been founded, in 2021, by seven OpenAI defectors…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Han Ong reads his story “My Balenciaga,” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. Ong is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and…

Noma, the “world’s best restaurant,” has been rocked—again—by revelations of the chef René Redzepi’s abusive behavior. Will anything change?

Fresh from Silicon Valley.

For those in Donald Trump’s orbit, great power often comes with great dispensability. Take Kristi Noem, who, as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, was in charge of the President’s top domestic priority of carrying out mass deportations, until…

The author discusses his story “My Balenciaga.”

On a Sunday morning in February, about a thousand people filled the high-ceilinged sanctuary at Mercy Culture, a nondenominational evangelical megachurch in Fort Worth, Texas. The senior lead pastor, Landon Schott, gave a sermon that was mostly about the…

It could have been an experiment by the master. An early draft. A failed caprice.