In the Air
The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.Illustration by Barry Blitt Nathan Myhrvold met Jack Horner on the set of the “Jurassic Park” sequel in 1996. Horner is an eminent paleontologist, and was a consultant on the movie. Myhrvold was there because he really likes dinosaurs. Between takes, the two men got to talking, and Horner asked Myhrvold if he was inte
Why America Is Rich, at Least for Now
Despite economic shifts, America is a rich country because of those things that both political parties share, national values and institutions.PHOTOGRAPH BY GRANT FAINT / GETTY The monthly U.S. jobs report, released by the Labor Department on Friday morning, struck an oddly cheery note at the near end of this ugly election season. A hundred and sixty-one thousand new jobs were created in October,
Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump’s America
Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. Donald Trump, with Governor Mike Pence, makes an address, at around 3 A.M. on November 9th, at the New York Hilton Midtown, after becoming the President-elect.Photographs by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker Four decades ago, Watergate revealed the potential of the modern Presi
Episode 59: The Koch Brothers, and the Boxing Champion Heather Hardy
Three epic battles: Jane Mayer recounts her experience investigating—and being investigated by—Koch Industries; the boxer Heather Hardy forfeits the prize money for a fight before setting foot in the ring, but wins anyway; and Junot Díaz is stripped of his honors by the government of the Dominican Republic. Plus, the astronomer who wrote “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming” lays out his e
Japan’s Pivot from Obama to Trump
Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in May.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / GETTY On Monday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he would visit Pearl Harbor with President Obama later this month, which will make him the first sitting Japanese leader to travel to the Navy base since Shigeru Yoshida went, in 1951, ten years after it was attacked by Japan's Imperial Army. A
Finding Poetry in a Note-Taking App
A writer’s private collection of stray thoughts, odd quotations, and pictures of a pregnant Garfield. When I was a child, I felt my own limits as the limits of my notebook. I could not seem to keep one, not properly. I chafed against my diaries’ flimsy locks, their too small dimensions. I wanted a notebook that functioned not as a body but as a mind, a notebook that collected, interposed, collaged
President Trump’s First Term
His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be. With the polls virtually tied, the possibility of a Trump victory is no longer the stuff of dark comedy or fan fiction. It is fair to ask: What would he actually be like as President?Photo Illustration by Ji Lee; Source: Pete Souza / White House (Office); Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / AP (Trump); Yvonne Hemsey / Getty;
How School Shootings Spread
In the years since Columbine, school shootings changed; they became ritualized.Illustration by Oliver Munday On the evening of April 29th last year, in the southern Minnesota town of Waseca, a woman was doing the dishes when she looked out her kitchen window and saw a young man walking through her back yard. He was wearing a backpack and carrying a fast-food bag and was headed in the direction of
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