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Two married Black Panthers fled the U.S., fearing a setup by the police. In exile, in Tanzania, they resumed the Party’s community-building mission.

Two married Black Panthers fled the country, fearing a setup by police. In exile, in Tanzania, they began to resume their mission, building a community far from home.

Ruth E. Carter has been designing costumes for more than thirty years. With an Oscar nomination for her work on “Black Panther,” she may finally get her due.

The filmmaker talks about the abuse accusations against R. Kelly. Her new documentary implicates him, his enablers, and even his fans.

Denise Ho had it all: stadium tours, product endorsements, movie deals. All that changed when she used her celebrity for political activism.

A Taiwanese electronics giant building a plant in Wisconsin should have been a great deal for American workers. Instead, they’ll be paying for decades.   

David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament is highly literal, and that seems to raise hackles for many Christians.

Adapting a classic novel for the stage, the writer has a few bones to pick with the heroic figure of Atticus Finch.

A music critic shares three of her favorites this year: a Catalan singer, a banjo balladeer, and Ariana Grande.

The New Yorker’s food correspondent gets a lesson in fermentation from the celebrity chef René Redzepi, and brings David Remnick some microbial snacks.

A New Yorker editor picks three favorites for a new parent.

The bassist of the fictional band has struck out on his own, and he talks with Andy Borowitz about his new album.  

Candidates who once cloaked their views on white nationalism, like the Iowa congressman Steve King, are now tweeting about them openly and regularly.

Onstage at the 2018 New Yorker Festival, Kelela talks about how Napster helped her find her voice as a singer, and then she performs live with a d.j.

A leading feminist argues that women have been discouraged from showing anger—but that they need to express it if they want to create change.

A rock icon looks back on a groundbreaking career.

In “These Truths,” a historian shares her deep perspective on American conflicts past and present.

A philosopher of identity says that each of us is more complicated than we realize.

The “Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj describes learning to be funny—and unlearning it.

They’re complicated and difficult, but don’t call Glenn Close’s characters—even in “Fatal Attraction”—villains.