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Vinson Cunningham’s City Hall Wedding

If he had ever thought about his wedding day, Vinson Cunningham would have assumed it would be in a church. But when the time came to get married, Cunningham and his fiancée, Renée Chung, didn’t want...

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William Barber on Faith and Politics

In January, 2021, the Reverend William J. Barber II of the Greenleaf Christian Church delivered the homily for the inaugural prayer service. His appearance, speaking to, and for, the new...

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Susan Orlean Gets a Lesson in Origami

Susan Orlean likes to joke that her beat at The New Yorker is “maniacs.” Ten years ago, she wrote about a former laser physicist who had given up a successful career to become an origami artist. In...

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Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family

All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking development....

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Dexter Filkins on the Ruthlessness of Mohammed bin Salman

When the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, first took power, he was widely hailed as a reformer. Bin Salman promised to overhaul the oil-dependent economy, to usher in cultural reform,...

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Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Complications of Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of leading thinkers on identity. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah also writes the New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist column, answering...

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Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family

All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking development....

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Vinson Cunningham’s City Hall Wedding

If he had ever thought about his wedding day, Vinson Cunningham would have assumed it would be in a church. But when the time came to get married, Cunningham and his fiancée, Renée Chung, didn’t want...

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Tommy Orange and the Urban Native Experience

Tommy Orange had never read a book about what it means to be a Native American living in a big city. In a conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor Deborah Treisman, Orange says that urban...

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Would Everybody Please Stop?

Jenny Allen has something she’d like to say to you—or, rather, some things she’d like you to stop saying. “Would Everybody Please Stop?,” a litany of cutesy phrases and figures of speech that bug the...

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James Wood Is Done “Prosecuting Wars”

When James Wood joined The New Yorker as a literary critic, he promised that he wouldn’t “go soft”: he was well known at The New Republic for battles with prominent writers whose styles he found...

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From Beach Reads to Searing Memoirs: What to Read This Summer

Summer (unofficially) kicked off last weekend, but if you haven't found the perfect book to dig into yet, The Takeaway has you covered. Mythili Rao, producer for The New Yorker Radio Hour, brought her...

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Another Fiasco for American Soccer

The 2018 World Cup begins this week in Russia, and America is taking a powder. The men’s team failed to qualify for the tournament after a stunning upset loss to Trinidad and Tobago, which is...

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In the Civil Service, Loyalty Now Comes Before Expertise

Donald Trump came into office promising to make so many cuts to the government that “your head will spin.” Evan Osnos has been reporting from Washington on how the Administration is radically changing...

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Marco Rubio: “Modernizing” Conservatism

Not so long ago, Senator Marco Rubio was seen as the shining future of the G.O.P.: a staunch, national-security-minded conservative who was young, charismatic, and a popular Latino politician in a...

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An Architect of the Iran Deal Sees Her Work Crumbling

Susan B. Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Washington, speaks with Wendy Sherman about the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as...

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Dunya Mikhail on the Lives Stolen by ISIS

Before she was placed on the list of Saddam Hussein’s enemies, the poet Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer. When threats against her became frequent, Mikhail left the...

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ICE Comes to a Small Town in Tennessee

Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted its largest workplace raid in a decade, in the tiny town of Bean Station, Tennessee. The owner of a meat-packing plant was being...

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Stacey Abrams Runs to Make History in Georgia

A groundswell of women are seeking congressional seats this year, as Margaret Talbot recently reported, and an all-time high of seventy-eight women are expected to run for governor. Among them is...

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Ross Douthat on the Trumpian Side of Pope Francis

As a conservative columnist at the New York Times, Ross Douthat fills the post once held by no less a figure than William Kristol.  A devout Catholic, Douthat opposes the progressive direction in which...

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