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Democratic lawmakers staged multiple protests during a Senate Judiciary Committee vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Friday — a move that many called to delay in the wake of a raw and emotional hearing on sexual…
Artists perceive and deride the arrogance of miscreants while also acknowledging their allure, as in the Burkinabé director Idrissa Ouedraogo’s graceful yet harsh drama “Samba Traoré,” from 1992, a work of political fury with the lyricism of a folktale. The…
Fifty years ago this month, hundreds of feminist activists, most of them from the political-resistance group New York Radical Women, arrived in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to protest the Miss America pageant. Marching along the boardwalk, the activists expressed their…
The artist Ana Juan began contributing to The New Yorker in 1995, and has since done dozens of covers for the magazine. Her cover for next week’s issue draws on the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who on Thursday appeared…
Cryptocurrency exchanges in India have been under immense pressure since April this year when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cracked down on the ecosystem, asking all the financial institutions of the country “not to deal with or provide services…
Brussels and Beijing have inked a major bilateral agreement alongside organizations and institutions to initiate a passenger train service between port cities in the Old Continent and Middle Kingdom, challenging even Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway. Officials from both countries signed a memorandum…
