David Remnick

A reality-show mogul and multibillionaire offers a surprising approach to the economic crisis: socialism. Plus, Susan Orlean gets a life lesson in origami. 

Peter Hessler describes the lifting of China’s quarantine, and Evan Osnos explains how anti-China rhetoric is fuelling the Presidential race.

A tenth-grade English class tackles a classic that’s become all too contemporary. And, in Peter Cameron’s short story, an angsty teen wages a silent battle.

Larissa MacFarquhar on the ethics of a human-challenge trial, which would infect volunteers with SARS-CoV2 to test a vaccine. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.

The musician talks with Tolentino about releasing an album in quarantine, and the film critic shares his picks from an extensive review of plague-themed cinema.

A historian revisits a stay-at-home campaign from the polio years, and three mayors discuss the challenges of ending the lockdown.

The novelist Edwidge Danticat says COVID-19 is changing the lives of Haitians, both on the island and in the U.S. Plus, two Western writers look for trout and critique Western writing.

The Michigan governor on guiding her state through the coronavirus pandemic, her public skirmishes with the President, and her support of Joe Biden.

With the pandemic putting inmates—who cannot maintain social distance—as well as corrections workers in danger, the movement for decarceration suddenly seems politically possible.

John Cassidy and David Remnick discuss mass unemployment. Plus: the pathbreaking rap of Chika, and Mike Birbiglia imagines his ideal death.

The pandemic has hit black communities uniquely hard. To understand why, Kai Wright explores how racism shows up in black bodies—all the way down to the cellular level.

Before “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean. Her early writings about the sea and its creatures contain the seeds of what made her so widely influential.

Two prominent writers on the environment discuss how the coronavirus pandemic relates to climate change. And a scientist hunts for deadly viruses in their natural habitat.