Maine
As Told To
An International Student on Lockdown During the Shooting in Lewiston, Maine
“When I saw how my American peers reacted and how I reacted, the contrast just blew my mind,” Alan Wang, a senior at Bates College, said.
The Political Scene Podcast
Can Democrats Win Back Rural Voters?
Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward, the authors of the forthcoming book “Dirt Road Revival,” talk about intensive grassroots organizing as the key to Democratic success at the polls.
Daily Comment
The Senate’s Dangerous Inability to Protect Democracy
The struggles of Angus King reflect the rise of Trumpism over centrism.
Maine Postcard
Conjuring Maine’s Clairvoyant Kush
A company in Portland has dispatched psychics across the state—where marijuana is legal but delivery isn’t—to find a wide selection of your lost weed and drop it off at your home.
Dispatch
Maine’s Referendum on Susan Collins’s Reputation
The senator’s recent record has felt, to many, like a failure to meet the moment.
Annals of a Warming Planet
What Have We Learned in Thirty Years of Covering Climate Change?
In the late nineteen-eighties, I could fit every scientific report on global warming on my desk. The articles and monographs published since then would fill an airplane hangar, but what’s amazing is how little has changed.
Dept. of Hoopla
Roger Angell at a Hundred
Raising a glass to the New Yorker legend—born five years before the founding of this magazine, and a contributor for the past seventy-six—as he celebrates a milestone birthday.
The Future of Democracy
Why Shouldn’t Prisoners Be Voters?
Americans take for granted that they have a right to vote. The situation of people in prison suggests otherwise.
This Week in Fiction
Elizabeth Strout on Returning to Olive Kitteridge
The author discusses “Motherless Child,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
Culture Desk
The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World”
The people who visit the Olson House, in Cushing, Maine, seem to show up hoping to find or feel something they can take away, a kind of confirmation or some deeper understanding.
Shouts & Murmurs
Some Notes on Stephen King’s First Attempt at Writing Copy for L. L. Bean
We do not want our Chambray Sport Shirts associated with the image of that poor boy’s bloated corpse.
Currency
A C.S.A. for Books
Profiles
The Dynamism of Janet McTeer
The actress sees theatre as a form of jazz, in which every night is a new variation on a theme.
Fiction
Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl
Profiles