Black Lives Matter
Shouts & Murmurs
Americana in 2020
“Vaccine Day in Times Square” and other masterworks representative of the times.
2020 in Review
Kim Kardashian and the Limits of Checking Your Privilege
As the coronavirus first swept the globe, it created a compulsion to confess one’s advantages, even in the midst of enjoying them.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: A Year of New Urgency for Black Lives Matter
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the racial-justice movement in America.
Daily Comment
African-American Resistance to the COVID-19 Vaccine Reflects a Broader Problem
Notably, Republicans are another group voicing significant skepticism about the vaccine, albeit for very different reasons.
Our Columnists
Kamala Harris and the Noble Path of the Prosecutor
If past decades drew ambitious lawyers to demonstrate toughness, with destructive consequences, today’s politics are transforming what it means to be a successful prosecutor.
U.S. Journal
The Defacement and Destruction of Black Lives Matter Murals
In Tulsa and other U.S. cities, street art that served as a summer rallying cry is now under threat from vandals, pro-police groups, and local governments.
St. Louis Dispatch
Cori Bush, a Nurse and Activist, Becomes the First Black Woman to Represent Missouri in Congress
It was seeing a photo of Michael Brown’s dead body on the street in Ferguson that propelled Bush into joining the ranks of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Washington.
L.A. Postcard
After Years of Protests Every Wednesday, L.A. Activists Welcome a New D.A.
The outgoing Los Angeles District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, has sent twenty-two people of color to death row. Now she’s been voted out.
Dispatch
Outside the White House, the Site of Anti-Trump Protests Hosts a Celebration
Five months ago, protesters in Lafayette Square were tear-gassed to make way for a Presidential photo op. On Saturday, after Joe Biden’s victory was announced, the streets around the square were the scene of a party.
Campaign Chronicles
An Unexpected Encounter with Trump Supporters in Georgia
“I don’t really like all this politics stuff. It just makes people crazy.”
Letter from Portland
In the Streets with Antifa
Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.
Our Columnists
How Trump Brought Home the Endless War
Having come to power exploiting the fears spawned by perpetual war abroad, the President is defining the enemy of his war at home just as expansively.
Q. & A.
Doris Burke on Life Inside the N.B.A. Bubble
The longtime sports journalist discusses the challenges of calling basketball games in a new environment, the politics of the N.B.A., and the ways her profession has changed during the last thirty years.
Dispatch
Despite a National Outcry, Activists in Louisville Fight the Breonna Taylor Decision Alone
The movement’s success at publicizing Taylor’s cause on the Internet has not shielded the beleaguered activists on the ground in Louisville from physical and legal risk.
Cultural Comment
The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision
There’s a lot that is just god-awful wrong here, but let’s consider what Kentucky’s attorney general didn’t say.
The Sporting Scene
Naomi Osaka Adjusts, and Wins One of the Best U.S. Open Finals in Years
With a change of tactics, Osaka came from behind to defeat Victoria Azarenka in a match that featured terrific hard-court baseline tennis.
Our Columnists
The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror
A group of athletes across various American professional sports have communicated the fear, frustration, and anger of most of Black America.
Q. & A.
Andre Iguodala on Activism and the N.B.A.
The first vice-president of the N.B.A. players’ union discusses how the players came to their decision to strike.
The Sporting Scene
Is the N.B.A. Still LeBron James’s League?
After James became basketball’s biggest global superstar, the league seemed to mold itself in his image. But no one rules forever.
U.S. Journal
A Community Organizer Takes on White Vigilantism
When armed men attacked Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia, a local activist recognized his neighbor among the mob and decided to confront him.