Reporters
Profiles
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.
By Ian Parker
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?
By Katy Waldman
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.
By Zach Helfand
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.
By David Remnick
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.
By Mark Singer
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.
By Steve Coll
Personal History
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives
On a Presidential paper trail.
By Robert A. Caro
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.
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
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.
By George Packer
Profiles
Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance
A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
By Ian Parker
As Told To
The Heartbreak and Frustration of Covering One Mass Shooting After Another
By Charles Bethea
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.
By Andrew Marantz
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.
By Evan Osnos