
The Fiftieth Anniversary of “Feliz Navidad,” the Simplest Song Ever Written
by Michael Schulman
José Feliciano looks back on the nineteen-word Christmas song, which he wrote in ten minutes and recorded in a single take.
The Fiftieth Anniversary of “Feliz Navidad,” the Simplest Song Ever Written
by Michael Schulman
José Feliciano looks back on the nineteen-word Christmas song, which he wrote in ten minutes and recorded in a single take.
Dept. of Wormholes
A Tale of Two Harveys
Stranger than fiction! One of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers represented a man who, in 1993, kidnapped another Harvey Weinstein and kept him captive for twelve days in a pit next to the West Side Highway.
by Bruce Handy
Dept. of Dissent
Justice Stevens’s Dissenting Shakespeare Theory
Among the late Supreme Court Justice’s controversial opinions: a belief that the Bard’s works were actually written by Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
by Tyler Foggatt
Dept. of Labor
Is the Gig Economy Working?
Many liberals have embraced the sharing economy. But can they survive it?
by Nathan Heller
Dept. of Higher Education
Out and Up
Formerly incarcerated undergrads started a group on campus to offer mentoring, support, and advocacy to other onetime inmates.
by Larissa MacFarquhar
Dept. of Social Studies
Starting Over
Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?
by Malcolm Gladwell
Dept. of Justice
To Have and to Hold
Reproduction, marriage, and the Constitution.
by Jill Lepore
DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE
A New Kind of Spy
How China obtains American technological secrets.
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
by Patrick Radden Keefe
DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Interview
Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?
by Douglas Starr