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Colin Kaepernick on the N.F.L.'s Response to His protest

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The former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick galvanized a national conversation when he began taking a knee during the national anthem. In a new interview with David Remnick, he discusses the response to his act of protest and his disappointment in the players who didn’t publicly support him.

Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game | The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The former N.F.L. quarterback talks with David Remnick about why he took a knee, the culture of the league, and the consequences of political activism.

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The Story Behind The New Yorker’s 9/11 Cover

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On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck the north tower, visible at the end of their street. They rushed to their daughter’s high school in the towers’ shadow, spending 90 harrowing minutes in the school before they located her. Stepping out, they watched the second tower disintegrate.

Shortly thereafter, Mouly was told that The New Yorker needed a new cover for the issue they were assembling, but none of the proposed images felt adequate to the enormity of what had happened. Then, she thought of a black cover, and Spiegelman suggested the towers’ silhouette, black on black.

For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Mouly shares the story behind one of The New Yorker’s most memorable covers—one that conveyed the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the tear in the fabric of reality.
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