Given the daily degradation of our democracy—not merely its practice but its symbols and forms, which matter, too—it seems merely worth a baleful look that more of the so-called Kennedy files, which the National Archives released last week, on Donald […]
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When a prosecutor began chasing an accused sexual predator, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. A report from Johnson City, Tennessee. Plus: The former federal prosecutor Kat Dahl. Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker. How Police
Last week, when the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison cut a deal with President Donald Trump to break free from an executive order that could have ruined its business, the powerhouse firm framed the concessions as a
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky Way than any ground-based telescope before it. It’s difficult to overstate how transformative it will be. The ELT’s primary mirror
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The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. “Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once thought to be the final resting
Judging by some of the online comments aimed at Rachel Zegler, the star of Disney’s live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, you’d think that she had done something unforgivable—set Cinderella Castle on fire, perhaps, or told Mickey
The AHA has signed on to a joint statement from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Phi Beta Kappa Society on the executive order to dismantle the US Department of Education, urging the administration to rescind the order.
A “potentially hazardous” pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as it reaches its closest point to our planet in more than 100 years. But the hefty space rock poses zero
