“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

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On Sunday, the Washington Commanders and the Indianapolis Colts—two football teams with low expectations and capable but wobbly quarterbacks, both already seeking a fresh wind of momentum only four weeks into the still budding N.F.L. season—played each other…

Nathan Fielder may well have the best deadpan shtick since Buster Keaton. But, whereas Keaton offers stoic innocence, Fielder clinically probes other people’s misconceptions and delusions, which makes him a perfect match for Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes, the…

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Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad.

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. In California, progressives have crafted a ballot initiative that calls for a wealth tax—a one-time, five-per-cent…

Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime. Season 2 of In the Dark examines the case against Flowers, who spent more than twenty years fighting for his life, as a white prosecutor tried just as hard to execute…

Among the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets in France on Tuesday were Paolina and Violette, eighteen and seventeen years old, arguing politely with a white-haired man sucking apple juice from a juice box. The two young women carried…

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The President’s self-dealing has been well documented. Do voters care—and will anyone ever pay?

Last year, my husband and I started looking for a studio or a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn that we could buy. To our surprise, we found a six-unit building in our neighborhood that was within our budget. It was rent-stabilized, partially occupied, and…

Richard Avedon was twenty-one years old, fresh out of the Merchant Marine, with only a handful of portraits of fellow-soldiers to show, when Alexey Brodovitch, the already legendary (and famously difficult) art director of Harper’s Bazaar, hired him, in 1944.…

Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom—and the worst consequences will extend far beyond next month’s midterms.

“Misty Green,” Chris Rock’s ferociously smart and darkly entrancing new movie, unfolds as a series of rude awakenings. One takes place in a hospital after a drunk-driving accident; another at a far-flung desert resort, in an ugly morning-after haze. But most…

If I went back in time and told my college self that, by middle age, we would consume comedy primarily in the form of podcasts, there would be a lot of questions, even after I explained what a podcast was. “So, basically, talk radio? Have we become politically…

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, faced an icy Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing last month, in which both parties pressed him on a string of blunders—taxpayer-funded travel, mishandling of the Epstein files, loosened hiring rules involving bestiality…

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