When Donald Paid Stormy: A History of Hush Money
Buying silence is as old as Genesis, Zach Helfand writes. Among the hushers: Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, Bette Davis, and…
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Juliana Castro Varón humorously writes about how a thirtysomething woman, amid everyday stress, is thriving in her life.
The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?” Jay Caspian Kang…
How a Small-Town Clerk’s Misdeeds Upturned the Murdaugh Verdict
James Lasdun writes that Becky Hill, a court employee possibly trying to maximize sales of her book, pressured jurors to…
Act of Faith
Dallas Jenkins’s show—a prestige drama about Jesus’ life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in history—has come to model…
Why Any Plausible Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Trump
Isaac Chotiner interviews Danny Citrinowicz, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and an expert on Middle East affairs, who…
A Vindication of the Rights of L.L.M.s
Shouts & Murmurs by Cora Frazier: Pity the poor large language model!
The Useless Beauty of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Plans for a forgotten art work by the late duo were found in an airshaft. Now, with the help of…
Mariska Hargitay Trades Her Badge for Confetti
On a break from “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” the actress takes over for Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing”—steps away…
The Trump-Epstein Files: Look but Don’t Touch
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca, housed three and a half million bound files,…