The New Yorker Summaries and Reviews
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The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.
Cal Newport
The New Yorker, 2020
The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
John Cassidy
The New Yorker, 2020
In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies. Now its future is in question.
Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, 2020
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Isaac Chotiner
The New Yorker, 2020
Cheap and simple medical devices could improve performance and lower health-care costs, but first they have to overcome deeply rooted biases.
Tom Vanderbilt
The New Yorker, 2019
It’s the ultimate political weapon. But we’ve never agreed on what it’s for.
Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, 2019
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What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, 2014
Probably, but don’t count yourself out.
Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, 2019
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A fiercely debated program of land reform could address racial injustice – or cause chaos.
Ariel Levy
The New Yorker, 2019
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.
Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker, 2017
