David Remnick

A programmer’s epiphany led to an innovation in game design that is still in use. Supposedly, he was so drunk that he couldn’t remember how it worked. We explore the origin of the myth.

Two New Yorker political writers on the beginnings of a new agenda, and the limits of the Democrats’ control.

A new documentary reveals how the agency first surveilled Martin Luther King, Jr., and then attempted to destroy his reputation and public life.

The New Yorker’s reporters and writers reflect on the convulsive end to the Trump years. And a game designer explains why the fiction of QAnon has been so appealing and so dangerous.

The surgeon and writer—now a member of the incoming Biden Administration’s COVID-19 task force—talks with one of his favorite indie musicians.

Reporting on the trajectory of COVID-19 in the U.S., the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says that “the magnitude of our failure is unparalleled.”

Dhruv Kullar, Anna Weiner, Simon Parkin, and Kevin Young reflect on the events of 2020.

Helen Rosner talks with the cookbook author and food-justice activist about reclaiming veganism from white hipsters. Plus, a holiday gift from Ian Frazier.

The Georgia G.O.P. is at war with itself, as its U.S. Senate seats are up for grabs in critical runoff elections. And citizens in Nigeria are rising up against a brutal police unit.

For decades, Eric Smokes and David Warren said they were innocent of the charges on which they were convicted. But, to be freed on parole, they had to take responsibility for the crime.

Two prominent representatives on a debate roiling the Democrats: did a leftward turn cause losses in the November election?

The director’s new project reflects his upbringing in West Indian London. Plus, the difficulty of divorce in an insular religious community.

The staff writer on some of the challenges to vaccination.