WASHINGTON — The woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers said on Saturday that she was willing to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but asked for more time to continue negotiating the details of her appearance. It is…

WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for…

Chan Marshall, who records as Cat Power, considered moving away and leaving music behind when she got pregnant. Instead she started work on her new album, “Wanderer.” Credit Credit Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times By MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — When Chan Marshall, the singer and songwriter best known as…

The raid on Prince's long-sealed vault officially begins today, with Piano and a Microphone 1983, a collection of songs recorded at the artist's Kiowa Trail home studio a year before Purple Rain . It is, inevitably, a slightly uncomfortable listen. Whether you're a casual listener or dedicated…

Friday’s Times story may have provided President Trump a casus belli for getting rid of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy Attorney General. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker Is Donald Trump about to fire Rod Rosenstein , the deputy Attorney General, who oversees the special counsel…

Many conservatives have reacted as if they believe the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, defending the right of a Supreme Court Justice to have previously attempted to commit rape. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker Ever since the professor Christine Blasey Ford revealed that…

Dan Evans In the published screenplay for The Big Lebowski , a character named “The Dude” is introduced in the stage directions as “a man in whom casualness runs deep.” Of all the Coens’ movies, The Big Lebowski is, at least on the surface, the most ambling and aimless. It starts with a tumbleweed…

“Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” When Brian Koppelman was an 8-year-old playing in his first five-card draw game, his sleepaway camp bunkmates cleaned him out. That day, he parted ways with his entire canteen…

“Saturday Night Live” will return this season with its ensemble largely intact and just one new cast member: Ego Nwodim , a veteran of the UCB Theater in Los Angeles who has appeared on shows like “2 Broke Girls” and the “Law & Order True Crime” mini-series, will join “S.N.L.” as a featured…

Soon, baseball fans won’t have to bear with Chief Wahoo. Heeding pressure from the Major League Baseball’s commissioner, the Cleveland Indians announced this week that it will phase out the red-faced mascot from its uniforms by next season. Like the name and branding of the equally controversial…

“I just can’t draw.” It’s a refrain most adults say when confronted with a blank piece of paper. Something happens in our teenage years that makes most of us shy away from drawing, fretting that our draftsmanship skills aren’t up to par, and leaving it to the “artists” among us. Spartan Holiday But…

All glossy magazine superstar covers may look the same from a distance, but inside, you’re never quite sure what you’ll find. Take the October issue of GQ, which features Paul McCartney. For decades he has leaned on familiar Beatles anecdotes, presuming that decades-old chestnuts may still pass for…

It can be easy to forget that sexual assault is a crime committed by a very small percentage of the male population. You might think otherwise, considering how many women have come forward in the last year with tales of abuse and the epidemic number of sexual assault victims in the U.S. — one person…

Jackie Siegel, one of the subjects of Queen of Versailles. Magnolia Pictures This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Great Recession, with Lehman Brothers having filed for bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. And 10 years on, the causes and repercussions are still tricky to understand.…

The global financial crisis is fading into history. But the roots of the next one might already be taking hold. Financial crises strike rich countries every 28 years on average. Often, the break between busts is much shorter. Fast-growing pockets of debt, as in the last time around, look like…

On Friday morning, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort pled guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C. to two counts of conspiracy relating to his work as an unregistered agent for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians, among other crimes. Manafort pled guilty not to a straight plea…

20th Century Fox/Ringer illustration One of my favorite movie micro-genres is what I like to call “Schwarzenegger plus subtext.” These are movies in which Arnold’s larger-than-life presence is used to get audiences into the theater while the filmmakers smuggle some interesting ideas in the back…

The Heads of State Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series that attempts to answer the question: Is democracy dying? Democracy is a most unnatural act. People have no innate democratic instinct; we are not born yearning to set aside our own desires in favor of the majority’s. Democracy is,…

Redditor AbeFroman21 posted that he and his family are without power or internet due to Hurricane Florence, and that Verizon has throttled their internet access to an unusable trickle, offering to unblock them if they pay for a higher tier of service. The incident recalls last month's news that…

Illustration by João Fazenda B ob Woodward ’s “ Fear ” belongs on a shelf with the literature of mad kings, next to Robert Graves’s “ I, Claudius ,” featuring the Roman emperor Caligula, and Ryszard Kapuściński’s “ The Emperor ,” about the last days in the court of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie. Those…

The night before Childish Gambino performed “Redbone” at Madison Square Garden, he was singing it to Rihanna . Twitter got a good laugh at the idea that someone as fucking cool as Rih could become an absolute fangirl, joining in the obligatory roaring sing-a-long that accompanies its first verse,…

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, under mounting pressure from senators of his own party, will call President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, and the woman who has accused him of sexual assault before the committee on Monday for extraordinary…

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has denied that he tried to force himself on a female teenager while in high school. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO Senate Republicans are now confronted with a difficult decision on whether to speed forward on his nomination. Senate Republicans' are confronting a…

“I don’t have a crisis anymore. I know I don’t exist.” Credit Credit Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times By CULVER CITY, Calif. — Jim Carrey was harder to locate than it seemed. Yes, the lanky guy with the dopey, chin-length bob haircut wearing a pair of hand puppets shaped like anthropomorphic…

The Op-Ed provides a window into the mind-set of people who continue to work for the President, and reveals shocking details about what steps have been considered to stop his destructive tendencies. Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty There’s a long tradition of anonymous…

The Heads of State T in Philadelphia, is a monument to the benefits of pessimism. The center, which is situated across an open expanse from Independence Hall, is a superior educational institution, but, understood correctly, it is also a warning about the fragility of the American experiment. The 42…

Deep joy.Photograph: Sky Magazine / Rex Features Last autumn, I enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley’s massive open online Science of Happiness course to see if I might goose my felicity quotient through an understanding of the edicts dispensed almost daily by the US’s happiness…

Hi! Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere. I hope you enjoy using it! - Adam Notes Bitsy works best in the Chrome browser. Instructions for getting started are in Bitsy's 'About'…

Yuri Gripas / Reuters Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The 25th Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism. Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president’s own…

A director's outcry sparks a closer look at whether prejudice among foreign buyers is still shortchanging films despite the gains of 'Black Panther' and 'Get Out': "I don't think they're giving audiences enough credit." When Boots Riley, director of indie breakout hit Sorry to Bother You , recently…

In Las Vegas, the ultimate sand trap-turned-capital of capitalism, there’s no better byword for sophistication than the Cosmopolitan . Its 20-plus suites, known as the Boulevard Penthouses , are the most coveted rooms in town, largely because they’re priceless. The only way in is by invitation,…

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet Lixia Guo / BuzzFeed News If you saw Amy Groesbeck during school hours, you’d think she’s just your typical third-grade teacher. But when the 33-year-old goes home each evening, that’s when her second job begins. She pulls out her…

Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images I don’t care much about the rules of tennis that Serena Williams was accused of violating at Saturday night’s U.S. Open final. Those rules were written for a game and for players who were not supposed to look or express themselves or play the game as beautifully…

Because I’m officially washed, I didn’t make it out to the midnight premiere of Halloween at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, which apparently featured The Shape , in person, walking through the theater after the lights went down. Somewhere, William Castle was smiling.…

Image: Ben Blennerhassett on Unsplash What’s the biggest goal on your to-do list? Is it a cross-country move to your dream city? Opening a business? Starting your own blog? Now, consider: Why haven’t you checked it off your list yet? As Jessica Abel, a cartoonist and author, explains , it’s because…

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“I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” the twenty-six-year-old rapper Mac Miller said, in an interview published on Thursday, the day before his death. “And I don’t want just sadness either.” Photograph by Jamie McCarthy / Getty On Friday afternoon, the rapper and producer Mac Miller was found…