What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
by David Owen
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
by David Owen
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
Letter from Iran
The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
by Azadeh Moaveni
From the start, women were at the center of the demonstrations that swept Iran last year. Schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy.
The Civil-Rights Showdown Nobody Remembers
by Louis Menand
Clinton High was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order. Why did reluctant acceptance turn to violence?
A Small-Town Paper Lands a Very Big Story
by Paige Williams
In Southeast Oklahoma, a father-son reporting duo’s series on the county sheriff led to an explosive revelation.
Big Heat and Big Oil
by Bill McKibben
A rapid end to burning fossil fuel would arrest the heating that has caused extreme damage in recent weeks; and that rapid end is possible.
After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox
by Alex Barasch
In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.
Letter from Chengdu
The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese School
by Peter Hessler
The President of China compared moral education to buttons on clothes. The girls’ buttons were wrong from the start, but they learned the more valuable lessons that two systems can impart.
Remembering Robert Gottlieb, Editor Extraordinaire
by David Remnick
At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment—someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too.
Letter from India
How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic
by Manvir Singh
Every year in India, many thousands are killed in marriage-payment disputes. Why does this war on women persist?
Letter from North Carolina
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
by Andrew Marantz
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?