The scene at every iPhone release to date, in photos
“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” With those words, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world in 2007....
The Syrian Mercenaries Fighting Foreign Wars for Russia and Turkey
“They sent us directly to the front lines. The situation is terrible. Terrible. There is fighting every day. We are charged with storming. There is no...
The Supreme Court We Need
Growing up in the shadow of the Kennedy administration, I watched in awe as people half a generation older headed to the exotic venues of the...
The Right’s War on Universities
First came the declaration of war on The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which examines the way slavery has shaped American society and national identity. In...
A Disaster 100 Years in the Making
“I ain’t proud to be American no more,” Dean Blanchard, a shrimp distributor, told a reporter in 2015.1 Ten years earlier, his business was nearly ruined...
Speak, Memory?
One of the mythic hero’s most important tasks is to travel to a strange new land and come back enlightened or bewildered. One of the quest’s...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933–2020
PAMELA KARLAN The last time I saw Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a year ago—in October 2019, when I argued Bostock v. Clayton County before the...
Chaos and Cathode Rays
On a freezing night in February 1967, the cellist Charlotte Moorman and the artist-composer Nam June Paik performed Paik’s Opera Sextronique for the first time at...
Self-Made Men
It opens like a fairy tale. A young sailor, strapping and uneducated, rescues a rich kid from a beating and is gratefully invited back to the...
