admin Meet the Minion-Maker
Off the release of “Minions & Monsters,” the director Pierre Coffin reflects on creating the language of Minionese, partly inspired…
Madonna Wants to Take You There
The pop star launched her new album, “Confessions II,” at a party in London, complete with watery drinks and nostalgic…
The Met Turns Orientalism Inside Out
Zachary Fine reviews “Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy,” an exhibit that hinges largely on the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme and…
Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder
Trump was elected largely because of the affordability crisis. But, since reëntering the White House, he has only accentuated the…
Locked Away
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of…
The Remaking of Lindsey Graham
Ruth Marcus on the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who has died, at the age of seventy-one.
The Stellar New Restaurant That’s Put a Museum on the Map
Helen Rosner writes that Zoli, which anchors the sprawling East Williamsburg art space Amant, earns its experimental flourishes by delivering…
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., talks with David Remnick about the devastating effects of…
The Summer I Surrendered to Wilson Phillips
Naomi Fry on “Hold On,” by Wilson Phillips, MTV, teen-age angst, and the summer of 1990.
An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like
Under a proposed rule, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project that didn’t fit the President’s…