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?
The Civil-Rights Showdown Nobody Remembers
A Small-Town Paper Lands a Very Big Story
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
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
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.
The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese School
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
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.
How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic
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?
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy
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?
The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape
The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape
by Rachel Aviv
Anthony Broadwater spent sixteen years in prison and twenty-two more as a registered sex offender. For him and for the author of “The Lovely Bones,” justice is a difficult dream.
A Parting Glass for the Ritz-Carlton’s Norman Bukofzer
Sendoff Dept.
A Parting Glass for the Ritz-Carlton’s Norman Bukofzer
by Zach Helfand
One of the late, great barman’s best customers, Liam Neeson, presided from a “fecking” sickbed upstairs as drinkers toasted the guy who’d served Jodie Foster, Ralph Fiennes, Bono, Joe Torre, and Bette Davis.