Gaziantep has become America’s gateway to the Middle East’s most complicated war in a century.
Our writers churn out a lot of jokes. Here’s a selection of the best from the past twelve months.
“Wild” and “Mr. Turner” are movies about independence.
Whatever the problem, students at a recent science contest were ready to bet that a specially designed microbe was the solution.
High prices would force us to find another way to power the world.
Nothing better illustrates the slick power of euphemism than the fact that our dialogue takes this non-term seriously.
Reese Witherspoon is a fine actress who, here, never seems to cut loose from the film’s limiting script or Jean-Marc Vallée’s monotonous direction.
There are a lot of jokes being churned out by our writers. Here’s a selection from the Shouts Department’s past twelve months, in print and on the Web.
At some point, if the unemployment rate keeps falling, employers will be forced to offer higher pay.
Jošt Franko’s photographs from the buffer zone in Gaza.
At this year’s iGEM Giant Jamboree, two thousand college students considered the future of man-made life.
“The American people are by far the best informed,” Henry Luce wrote in 1941. If that was ever true, it isn’t anymore.
A new episode of “The Cartoon Lounge” reveals a surefire cure for the winter blues.
Five classic Profiles from the magazine document life in the Oval Office.
Sex tangles with reading in Olena Kalytiak Davis’s new work.
A cocktail for each state, in Williamsburg.
“He was always ready to be meeting people. To be saving their souls.”
A new social app has a party. Shouldn’t say which one, but it starts with a “W” and rhymes with “hisper.”
George Osborne’s economic program isn’t just budget-cutting: it is social engineering on a grand scale.
The route to the failure to indict is probably simple: the prosecutor led the grand jurors that way.
There is now growing support for a plan to supply grand-jury members with eyes, advocates of the plan said.
As far back as 1997, before ubiquitous smartphones and laptops, psychologists were testing the “addictive potential” of the Web.
Usually, electronic dance music is all about the sound. DJ Sprinkles’s songs make an argument.
James Toback’s “Fingers,” from 1978, is a real classical-music movie whose subject is, in effect, an Apollonian mask that threatens to crack.
Jošt Franko’s photographs from the buffer zone in Gaza.
Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, previews a new collection of the magazine’s top cartoons of 2014 and reveals the ten best caption contests of all time.
