Margaret Talbot

Margaret Talbot appears in the following:

No Mercy

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Another migrant child has died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a system where the quality of mercy is under extreme strain.

No Rules

Monday, May 06, 2019

Serving as Trump’s Attorney General—and keeping the job—seems to mean treating anything that does not serve his interests as an urgent threat.

Not Working

Monday, February 04, 2019

In “Not Working,” Margaret Talbot writes about President Trump’s state of disunion. 

Democrats in the House

Monday, January 07, 2019

To counter Donald Trump, and to prepare for 2020, the Party needs to think big.

On The Attack

Monday, October 01, 2018

Christine Blasey Ford spoke with disarming directness and vulnerability, but the hearing unleashed in Brett Kavanaugh a bitter, partisan rage pumped up with conspiracy theory.

Family Values

Monday, June 25, 2018

The policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a President with no moral center.

Gun Shots

Monday, March 05, 2018

In "Gun Shots," Margaret Talbot weighs in on the gun control debate after Parkland.

Fighting Revenge Porn & Online Harassment in Court

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot and Brooklyn attorney Carrie Goldberg discuss revenge porn and sexual privacy. 

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The Importance of Talking to Kids About... Well, Anything!

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot addresses the so-called "word gap."

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Movies, Magic, and Memoir

Friday, July 05, 2013

New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot uses the life and career of her father, Lyle Talbot, an early Hollywood star, to tell the story of the rise of popular culture. The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century is a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir, conjures nostalgia for those earlier eras of 1910s and 1920s small-town America, and the 1930s and 1940s in Hollywood.

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Movies, Magic, and Memoir

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot uses the life and career of her father, Lyle Talbot, an early Hollywood star, to tell the story of the rise of popular culture. The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century is a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir, conjures nostalgia for those earlier eras of 1910s and 1920s small-town America, and the 1930s and 1940s in Hollywood.

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Gay Marriage Moves to the Courts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The California case seeking to undo Proposition 8 on constitutional grounds could make it to the U.S. Supreme Court with potential to greatly expand gay rights nationally, but not everyone is convinced the timing is right. New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot discusses the legal strategies in support ...

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Better, Faster, Stronger, Smarter

Thursday, April 23, 2009

New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot explores the world of neuro-enhancing drugs.

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