06:48 The Cinematic Glories of Manoel de Oliveira’s Endless Youth - The Portuguese director, who made twenty-two features after the age of eighty, rejuvenated the art of movies by linking personal experience to the arc of history. (www.newyorker.com)
06:10 The Greater Scandal of Signalgate - The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted. (www.newyorker.com)
04:00 Edward Hirsch Reads Gerald Stern - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.” (www.newyorker.com)
04:00 Women Who Made Amanda Seyfried Feel Less Alone - The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress discusses four books that examine some of the struggles that come with being a daughter, wife, and mother. (www.newyorker.com)
02:51 “Airless Spaces” Captures the Nadir of the Second Wave - If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself. (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 Deadlifting in Your Nineties, in “Strong Grandma” - An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary. (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 26th - “OMG, I got into my first-choice college currently being dismantled by the government!” (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency - The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington. (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes - We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening. (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America? - After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade. (www.newyorker.com)
03-26 The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” - Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction. (www.newyorker.com)
03-25 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy - In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse. (www.newyorker.com)
03-25 The Government’s Rock Librarian - Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that she believed her job would be safe. (www.newyorker.com)
03-25 The Long Shadow of the Kennedys - The latest release of J.F.K. assassination files so far doesn’t show much—except for the Kennedy name’s continued hold on the country. (www.newyorker.com)
03-24 How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away - When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams? (www.newyorker.com)
03-24 Carol Leifer Can Make You Funny - In a new book, the “Seinfeld” and “S.N.L.” writer shares the secrets to the perfect toast: don’t drink too much, and, remember, the Gettysburg Address was only two minutes long. (www.newyorker.com)
03-24 Story Time with the Man Who Oversaw SEAL Team Six - After a military career that included helping take out bin Laden, Admiral William McRaven has assembled a new squad: Caring Cow, Persevering Penguin, and Forgiving Frog. (www.newyorker.com)
03-24 Don’t Believe Trump’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net - The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. (www.newyorker.com)