The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing
A rogue scientist showed that CRISPR gives humans the ability to transform ourselves. But should we?
By Dana Goodyear
From the News Desk
Comment
Donald Trump and the Pardon Debate
The senseless sloganeering that produced the phrase “too big to fail” during the Great Recession has a contemporary corollary: too big to convict.
By Jelani Cobb
The New Yorker Radio Hour
No More Souters
The unassuming Justice David Souter confounded the hopes of the Republican Party and inspired a backlash that changed the Supreme Court. A special episode from WNYC’s “More Perfect.”
With David Remnick
Culture Dept.
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Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages
The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at MOMA, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian capital as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.
By Tausif Noor
Books
The World According to Dogs
From 2003: Stanley Coren believes that history has neglected dogs, but dogs appear not to mind.
By Larissa MacFarquhar
Poems
“Crows”
From 2000: “I think / they don’t envy anyone or anything.”
By Mary Oliver
Poems
“An Ox Looks at Man”
From 1980: “Poor things, one would say that they hear / neither the song of air nor the secrets of hay.”
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