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[ad_1] Every public library is an exception. The world outside is costly and cordoned off, but here no one is charged, and no one is turned away. People browse for books and go online. They learn English, meet with friends, dawdle, nap, and play. For children, the public library is a place to build an…
[ad_1] My mother had two issues with the ballroom-dance scene in the San Gabriel Valley. Some of the men who frequented the dance studios, she complained, had bad hygiene, were out of shape, and held her too tightly on purpose—even the ones who had wives at home. The other reason she didn’t like ballroom dancing…
[ad_1] Last month, when Donald Trump was indicted in New York City, the House Republican Conference was already in a state of predictable disarray. To secure his job as Speaker, Kevin McCarthy had made contradictory promises to the moderate and far-right factions, and the Party’s plans were sputtering. In late January, an extreme immigration and border…
[ad_1] Not long ago, I told a sad story of something that had happened half a century earlier in my home town of Lexington, Massachusetts. In the late nineteen-sixties, spurred by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lexington had formed a Suburban Responsibility Commission, which undertook to figure out how to integrate the…
[ad_1] A little before 4 P.M. on Tuesday, Judge Eric Davis uttered six words that brought an audible gasp to the courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware, where opening statements were set to begin in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News: “The parties have resolved the case.” Minutes later, one of Dominion’s lead attorneys,…
[ad_1] For the past three weeks, members of the Biden Administration have been crisscrossing the country, highlighting their efforts to promote green jobs and high-tech manufacturing. With everything else that has been going on—unremitting gun violence, the indictment of Donald Trump, a leak of classified documents about the war in Ukraine—this White House initiative hasn’t…
[ad_1] The private building that’s closest to the U.S. Capitol—indeed, the only nongovernmental building on Capitol Hill proper—belongs to the United Methodist Church. The corner lot—near where the Supreme Court now resides—was a muddy hole when the Reverend Clarence True Wilson spotted it, in 1917, and decided it would be the ideal location for the…
[ad_1] Downtown Wilmington was already lousy with reporters when the news broke, on Sunday evening, that the Dominion v. Fox trial would be delayed by a day. That afternoon, in an office building across from the courthouse, I caught a glimpse of Michael Wolff—“journalist enfant terrible and New York media scenester”—who is rumored to be…
[ad_1] [soft music] I wanna feel more confident. I wanna feel better. I wanna look better. I want a cute little bath suits in the summertime. I wanna like myself more, more than I really like myself, ’cause I absolutely love myself, I just want more. Growing up I felt like I was the ugly…
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Ten months after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, access to abortion is once again before the United States Supreme Court, in a case that targets not only abortion…