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What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a…

Oct 16, 2018

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Oct 16, 2018

Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits

The most lurid corner of the Internet is not a new dating app or a fetish site. It’s a column in which anonymous young professional women…

Oct 8, 2018

Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits

Oct 8, 2018

My Last Conversation with My Father

My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. As his firstborn, I…

Oct 4, 2018

My Last Conversation with My Father

Oct 4, 2018

When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig

I wonder how far along the scale of moral degeneration Zweig would judge America to be in its current state

Oct 2, 2018

When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig

Oct 2, 2018

My Mother and Her Scammer

She was fooled by a group of expert criminals. The rest of us were fooled by her.

Aug 23, 2018

My Mother and Her Scammer

Aug 23, 2018

Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds.

Aug 20, 2018

Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Aug 20, 2018

Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment

By Jia Tolentino

Aug 8, 2018

Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment

Aug 8, 2018

A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

By Katy Waldman

Aug 8, 2018

A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

Aug 8, 2018

Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.

Jul 30, 2018

Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

Jul 30, 2018

The Rage of the Incels

Incels aren’t really looking for sex. They’re looking for absolute male supremacy.

Jul 18, 2018

The Rage of the Incels

Jul 18, 2018

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The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting of politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism.

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