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PROFILES: Barney’s Great Adventure, by Jeffrey Toobin
Rep. Barney Frank, the most outspoken man in the House, gets some real power…
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PROFILES

Greening the Ghetto

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Can a remedy serve for both global warming and poverty?

COMMENT

Homelands

by David Remnick
History, Obama, and the Middle East.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

Cheat, Pray, Love

by James Surowiecki
When fraudsters go bust.
BLOG: THE BALANCE SHEET
PHOTOGRAPH: CHRISTOPH BANGERT
A REPORTER AT LARGE: Lives of the Saints, by Jonathan Harr
Everything is fine, until the moment when it is not. And when that moment comes it can be very quick and very bad…
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VIDEO

THE 2008 NEW YORKER
FESTIVAL

Videos of Donna Brazile, Seamus Heaney, and more.

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THE 2008 NEW YORKER CONFERENCE

An archive of videos from “Stories from the Near Future.”

PERSONAL HISTORY

Zadie Smith: Jokes run through a family.

ANNALS OF EDUCATION

Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?

LETTER FROM PASHMUL

Graeme Wood: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold.

PROFILES

Larissa MacFarquhar: Naomi Klein and the new new left.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

John Cassidy: Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis.

LETTER FROM WEST HOLLYWOOD

Amanda Fortini: The rise of luxury rehab.

OHIO POSTCARD

Peter J. Boyer: The day they came for Addie Polk’s house.

Dept. of Gastronomy

Calvin Trillin: The best Texas BBQ in the world.

ANNALS OF DRINKING

Burkhard Bilger: The rise of extreme beer.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

David Remnick: Race and the campaign of Barack Obama.

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Ryan Lizza: How Obama won.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

George Packer: Redefining the Democrats.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

John Seabrook: The search for the roots of psychopathy.

LETTER FROM MEXICO

Alma Guillermoprieto: The new narcocultura.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Connie Bruck: Chuck Hagel’s Republican exile.

ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY

Tom Bissell: CliffyB and the world of the video game.

DEPT. OF DISPUTATION

Margaret Talbot: Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?

ANNALS OF CULTURE

Malcolm Gladwell: Why do we equate genius with precocity?

THE POLITICAL SCENE

Ryan Lizza: Obama picked his running mate to help him govern.

PROFILE

Lauren Collins: The many lives of Arianna Huffington.

A CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

James Wood: The Republican war on words.

COMMENT

Adam Gopnik: You might as well spend.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: How to fill a Senate seat.

COMMENT

George Packer: The lessons of Mumbai.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: Letting Detroit fail.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The marrying kind.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: Bush rewrites the rules.

COMMENT

Hendrick Hertzberg: An unprecedented victory.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: What makes a President great?

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: Wealth-spreaders unite.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: Not-so-regular Joe.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: McCain’s negativity theory.

COMMENT

The Editors: The better candidate for 2008.

COMMENT

John Cassidy: The politics of the bailout.

COMMENT

John Cassidy: The meltdown and the election.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: Palin in the news.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The word from St. Paul.

COMMENT

David Remnick: Obama’s big night.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.

COMMENT

David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: McCain and the hard truth.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The newspaper industry’s uncertain future.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Obama’s economic team.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: On how we created the food crisis.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Why the market couldn’t check its fall.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The commercial paper chase.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The perils of being a publicly traded bank.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The politics of pay discrimination.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The real problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Corporate marriages rarely end in bliss.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

David Grann: John McCain’s choices.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Raffi Khatchadourian: Bob Barr’s Libertarian run for the White House.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Ryan Lizza: How Chicago shaped Obama.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

MORE ON CAMPAIGN 2008

IRAQ

Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris: What the Abu Ghraib photographs cannot explain.
MORE ON IRAQ

NEW ORLEANS

Dan Baum: Behind the failure to rebuild.
MORE ON NEW ORLEANS
 
01 05, 2009
Staff photographers Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss their work.
BLOGS
Sasha Frere-Jones shares a video of his interview with Bon Iver.
James Surowiecki does the math on Republican senators.
Hendrik Hertzberg explains why Obama chose Rick Warren.
Steve Coll questions Pakistan’s ability to crack down on terrorists.
George Packer equates Sean Penn’s journalism with fake populism.
The Book Bench: Publishers lose their limousines, take back your soul with a martini.
Goings On: F. Scott Fitzgerald is back in vogue, the drama of medicine, Popeye’s copyright.
The Cartoon Lounge: The first Predictification of 2009, Sali Lamo guest blogs.
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AUDIO
Face Time: Staff photographers Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss their work.
Joy Revision: Ariel Levy discusses the relevance of “The Joy of Sex.”
All in the Family: Zadie Smith discusses comedy and family.
Home for the Holidays: Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan’s “Christmas Eve.”
The Transition: Dorothy Wickenden hosts a discussion on Rod Blagojevich’s corruption scandal.
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VIDEO
Justin Vernon Express: An interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
Hot Seats: How an illegally logged tree becomes a toilet seat at Wal-Mart.
Not a Game: Scenarios from Virtual Iraq, with commentary by Sue Halpern.
Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
SLIDE SHOWS
Deserted: A portfolio of images from Sudanese refugee camps in Chad.
Sexual Evolution: A portfolio of images from “The Joy of Sex” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
The Face of Death: Paintings and drawings from the Marlene Dumas retrospective at MOMA.
Secrets of the Bomb: Images and documents that tell the story behind the first atomic bomb.

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