Steven Valentino

Russian intelligence has been probing for weaknesses in our election systems. And there are plenty. Can states secure themselves from attack in time for the midterms?    

Donald Trump says trade wars are “easy to win.” Will they help the Democrats win the midterms?

In “These Truths,” a historian shares her deep perspective on American conflicts past and present.

The master of the nature documentary shares lessons from a life spent observing life in every corner of the world.

Before “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean, and her writings about the sea and its creatures are like nothing else.  

A mother, deported to Honduras, tries to parent her children in the U.S. by video call.

One of the nation’s most prominent preachers explains his support for the President.

Vladimir Putin would like the U.S. to turn over the former ambassador Michael McFaul for interrogation in Russia. Will Donald Trump go through with it?   

A panel of female writers discuss the portrayal of women in the work of Philip Roth.

In 2003, David Remnick interviewed the author about his creative process, for the BBC.

Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey, on why the novelist’s writing will endure.

A legend in New York publishing, Tina Brown talks about her encounters with Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, and how she came to understand sexism in the workplace.

Autumn Miles, a survivor of domestic abuse, says that evangelical churches must stop encouraging women to submit to abuse.

It’s been said that Charles and David Koch run a political machine bigger than the Republican Party.  And they don’t like the President getting into trade wars.

A self-described liberal thinks Democrats need to put aside identity politics to focus on winning elections.

The author of “Gone Girl” and other books puts on a frozen-yogurt costume and wanders the mall, looking for victims.

School shooters have become part of a self-perpetuating subculture, Malcolm Gladwell says.

Evan Osnos speaks with a North Korea expert about the mixed signals coming from Pyongyang.

Twenty-five years after “Last Splash,” the band talks about the toll of drugs, and Kim Deal has a few words for Black Francis about sexism.

The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee fears that, with Russia, we’re confronting twenty-first-century threats with twentieth-century tools.