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Sam Smith’s No. 1, Grammy-winning hit, “Unholy,” upended the public perception of them, they say in a new interview. “There’s something about the sex in the song and the sexuality in the music and also the fun and lightheartedness of it that I think just challenged some people’s tastes when it came to me.” Listen to the full conversation:
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“Very few people say they got radicalized in med school,” the Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed tells David Remnick. But working at a prestigious hospital and seeing the difference between how wealthy and indigent patients were treated “really changed the way I thought about our system.” Read their full conversation:
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In a new report, David D. Kirkpatrick writes about the Biden Administration’s handling of the war in Gaza—and the top officials who now express regret about it. “Virtually everyone involved thought that Israel was killing more Palestinians than was necessary to achieve any legitimate objective,” Kirkpatrick notes. “What surprised me the most was the vast gulf between what the Biden Administration knew internally and what they said to the Israelis privately, and, on the other hand, what they said and did publicly.” Read his investigation:
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Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. His new book, “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th. He joins David Remnick on #RadioHour to discuss. Listen to the full episode:
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Carolina Herrera’s Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear show took place on Tuesday at the David H. Koch Theatre during New York Fashion Week. For the brand’s 45th anniversary, the global creative director Wes Gordon took inspiration from a New Yorker cover from 1981, the year of Herrera’s first runway show. We visited Gordon’s atelier to chat with the designer about his latest collection.
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Jennifer Welch, the co-host of the “I’ve Had It” podcast, talks to David Remnick about why Gavin Newsom is going to have the same issues that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris had with the Democratic base, and whom she likes as a 2028 candidate. Listen to their full conversation:
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Kristen Stewart shares why she decided to purchase the Highland Theatre, a hundred-year-old venue in Los Angeles that closed in the spring of 2024. “My vision for that space is that we can have safe, radical spaces to show work that is both mainstream and also completely marginal.” Watch the full New Yorker Mini Interview with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat here:
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Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan presented themselves to surrogates as a couple desperate for a child. In reality, they were in the process of obtaining dozens of children. Who was this mysterious couple, and why had they collected so many kids? A new five-part podcast series from In the Dark, hosted by the New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman, investigates. Listen to the first episode here: All five episodes are available now to New Yorker subscribers, ad-free, on the New Yorker app and Apple Podcasts.
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The former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick galvanized a national conversation when he began taking a knee during the national anthem. In a new interview with David Remnick, he discusses the response to his act of protest and his disappointment in the players who didn’t publicly support him. Read or listen to the discussion:
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Have you been injured by an exploding Acme product? Is your nemesis constantly evading your grasp? Have you been slammed into the ground so hard that your body makes an accordion-like wheezing sound when you walk? You are not alone. In 1990, The New Yorker’s Ian Frazier revealed the systematic catastrophes that one Wile E. Coyote faced because of the negligence of the Acme Company. Now Frazier and Will Forte (Will Forte), the star of the movie version of his story, are looking for justice, seeking the counsel of an actual personal-injury lawyer. Sign up for our humor newsletter to read the inspiration for a future Hollywood blockbuster:
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Maybe you know Alia Shawkat from her acclaimed roles in “Arrested Development” and “Search Party”—or, maybe, you went to high school together? The “Wrong Girls” actress reveals that she doesn’t really think she’s famous. “I get a lot of, like, ‘How do I know you?’ ” Watch the full New Yorker Mini Interview with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat:
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