The crowd inside had been lined up for hours to hear from Abigail Spanberger, the former congresswoman running for governor, ...

The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth ...

You can play Shuffalo every day at NewYorker.com/Shuffalo. Really means a lot, and to everyone at home, maelstrom.

My son hadn’t even been born when I started secretly writing him a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, I ...

In most states, the highest-paid public employee is a football coach. Lately, more and more of them are getting money to go ...

The narrator is out walking the family’s dog when a man suddenly appears in her path. She realizes, with dread, that it’s a person who’s been stalking her. After initially becoming fixated on her, he ...

Rumors that Obama was Muslim swirled, becoming a significant aspect of the media coverage of his campaign. A group working with his opponent, John McCain, called people in swing states, planted doubts ...

The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: “Elevators!” The ...

She has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, playing a mother for the first time since becoming one, she has ...

The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his ...

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The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the ...