Author: James Porter

Sean Duffy, Trump’s Transportation Secretary and former reality TV personality, has released a six-part YouTube road trip series. Here’s what to make of it.

Emily Nussbaum calls the Canadian Shakespeare festival series Slings & Arrows her all-time favorite show on The New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.

After failing to cut legal aid funding outright, the Trump administration is routing migrant children’s cases to organizations without immigration expertise or capacity.

D.S.A. co-chair Megan Romer defends the organization’s boldest positions on the New Yorker Radio Hour, arguing voters want fighters, not hedgers.

Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel “Yesteryear” became a best-seller after diving into trad wife culture. Now Anne Hathaway wants to adapt it.

Conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, backed by Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, pushed ibogaine into Republican politics. Here’s how a fringe psychedelic became a G.O.P. talking point.

Jordan Harper’s “A Violent Masterpiece” flips noir’s core pessimism, raising real questions about hope, the Epstein era, and what the genre can argue.

A Spanish firefighter’s warning about fires exceeding all response capacity points to a European crisis built from drought, heat, and decades of neglect.

Bari Weiss applies 60 Minutes-style balance to Lake Mead’s position relative to the Hoover Dam. The results are geographically ambitious.

Emily Eakin’s new book recovers the human lives behind French theory’s forbidding reputation, reviewed in The New Yorker August 2026.