The 1950 Chrysler New Yorker arrived in a moment when chrome and tailfins were starting to matter as much as compression ratios, yet it quietly went the other way. Instead of chasing flash, it doubled ...

In the course of his long career, Leon Panetta was a lieutenant in the Army, a congressman from California, Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, Barack Obama’s director of the C.I.A., and later, ...

The Republican Susan Collins has held one of Maine’s Senate seats for nearly thirty years, and Democrats, in trying to take it away from her, have a lot at stake. Graham Platner, a combat veteran, ...

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The article flashes back to Nelson’s early days as a young husband and father in the 1950s, recounting his time washing dishes, trimming trees, pumping gas, tooling saddles and going door to door ...

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Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

Willie Nelson, and specifically his life on the road, is the focus of a new opus profile in The New Yorker. The highlights are many, but Bob Dylan’s attempt to explain the appeal of Nelson stands ...

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama is beloved by many for her grace, her quick wit, and, of course, her amazing sense of style. But she admits that poised and polished woman we see today is the result ...

I was, at first, astounded that The New Yorker would devote so much space to Laura Loomer; then I understood that, at its core, Antonia Hitchens’s piece is about where the hearts and minds of so many ...

According to the Gospel of Luke, the Virgin Mary first learns that she’ll soon give birth to Christ when she gets an unsolicited visit from an angel. Nice messenger service if you can get it. But ...