The staff writer Evan Osnos offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on President Biden’s handling of world crises—from Gaza and Ukraine to China’s designs on Taiwan.

President Biden’s long-serving Secretary of State on the crisis in Gaza, and his reason for optimism about a lasting peace in the region. 

Mining for rare-earth metals has severe environmental consequences. Speaking with Elizabeth Kolbert, the journalist Vince Beiser says that the U.S. needs more of it.

Representing Silicon Valley in Congress, Khanna knows tech moguls—and knows how dangerous they are. “Some of them,” he tells David Remnick, “think they’re Nietzsche’s Superman.”

The songwriter and performer on her journey from pop music to theatre, with a live performance of “Gravity.”  

Munro kept quiet about the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner—but wrote about the family trauma in fiction.

The food guru explains why she hated dinnertime growing up, and how she learned to love it. And we dig into the craft of reading an audiobook with a master of the form.

The culture editor picks three of the best erotic thrillers after being inspired to study the genre by his recent Profile of the director of the new film, “Babygirl.”

The actress talks with Michael Schulman about her time on “As the World Turns,” starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”