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Emmanuel Carrère Writes His Way Through a Breakdown

France’s renowned author, known for his penetrating portraits of murderers and disaster victims, trains his eye on his own emotional collapse.
Under Review

The Lost Legacy of the Girl Stunt Reporter

At the end of the nineteenth century, a wave of women rethought what journalism could say, sound like, and do. Why were they forgotten?
Personal History

Tabula Rasa

Second Acts

A Mullah Walks Into a Bar: From War-Torn Kabul to a Writers’ Room

Habib Zahori, an Afghan war reporter and interpreter, loves Seth Rogen and stoner humor; on the sitcom “The United States of Al,” he advises on Taliban jokes.
Comment

The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth

The President is being forced to give up his attempt to overturn the election. But he will continue his efforts to build an alternative reality around himself.
Dept. of Hoopla

Roger Angell at a Hundred

Raising a glass to the New Yorker legend—born five years before the founding of this magazine, and a contributor for the past seventy-six—as he celebrates a milestone birthday.
Comment

The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise

The Attorney General’s summary reported no conspiracy, but serious newsrooms and journalists did the job they are supposed to do.
Personal History

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives

On a Presidential paper trail.
Annals of Media

The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire

The company has achieved formidable reach by focussing on small markets where its TV stations can have a big influence.
Comment

With “Fear” and Trump, Bob Woodward Has a Bookend to the Nixon Story

Almost half a century later, the ghost of the scandal that launched Woodward’s career haunts the Trump White House.
Profiles

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
News Desk

Jimmy Breslin and the Lost Voice of the People

The Political Scene

Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps?

At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites. The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 28th

The Sporting Scene

Postscript: Craig Sager, 1951-2016

Cleveland Postcard

Chinese Media at Trump’s R.N.C.

In Cleveland, Zhang Yuanan is the rare correspondent from her news organization at an American political convention.
Be Prepared Dept.

Dirty Wars

Fiction

Total Solar

News Desk

How the Pope Flies: Across Four Continents with John Paul II