Jonathan Blitzer

How the jazz musician Joshua Redman and the vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa chose songs for their album about American places.

“God’s mum / as the fields / of yellowing grass.”

The iconic filmmaker tells David Remnick how he got his start, how to direct Denzel Washington, and when he wants to retire.

The Louisiana Republican is best known for leading an effort to vote against certifying the results of the 2020 election—not because of fraud but on arcane legal grounds.

Republicans are making one dependent on the other. Are vulnerable Democrats willing to make concessions?

Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.

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In some ways, Gregg Abbott, as the governor of a border state, poses a more acute political problem for the President than Donald Trump does.

A former State Department official explains the Administration’s sharpening public critique of Israel’s war and simultaneous refusal to “impose a single cost or consequence.”

When the Senate Judiciary Committee met for a hearing on two nominees to the federal bench, on the morning of December 13th, only one of them was considered controversial.