Patrick Radden Keefe
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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A Juror Explains Why a C.I.A. Hacker Was Convicted
In a retrial, prosecutors made a persuasive case that Joshua Schulte had leaked hacking tools as an act of petty revenge against agency colleagues. → Read More
José Andrés Feeds Ron Howard, Then Feeds Him Some More
The two friends discuss their new documentary, “We Feed People,” and how the chef’s World Central Kitchen has served twenty million hot meals to displaced Ukrainians since February. → Read More
An Astounding List of Artists Helped Persuade the Met to Remove the Sackler Name
Richard Serra, Kara Walker, and Ai Weiwei were among a group of more than seventy that quietly pressured the museum to end its association with the family that made a fortune on the opioid crisis. → Read More
Philip Montgomery’s Up-Close Portrait of an America in Crisis
For nearly a decade, the photographer has been chronicling the country’s historic struggles, with an intimacy that can be achieved only by getting uncomfortably close. → Read More
An Insider from the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Speaks Out
A new memoir by a victims’ advocate describes a process that seemed fixed from the start. → Read More
This Is What Billionaire Justice Looks Like
The Sackler family is poised to evade litigation stemming from its role in the opioid crisis. Here's how it happened. → Read More
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family’s Plan to Keep Its Billions
The Trump Administration is poised to make a settlement with Purdue Pharma that it can claim as a victory for opioid victims. But the proposed outcome would leave the company’s owners enormously wealthy—and off the hook for good. → Read More
The Irish Border Is a Scar
Could Brexit reignite the Troubles in Northern Ireland? → Read More
Separating the Myth from the Man in the El Chapo Verdict
Patrick Radden Keefe writes about Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, who this week was convicted in a federal court in Brooklyn. → Read More
How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success
With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency, Patrick Radden Keefe writes. → Read More
Why Were a Filmmaker and a Journalist Arrested in Northern Ireland?
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey estimate that, in total, as many as a hundred officers took part in the operation—a show of force that seems hard to account for, unless the objective was intimidation. → Read More
How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister
Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge? → Read More
Travels with Anthony Bourdain
Patrick Radden Keefe remembers Anthony Bourdain, who has died at the age of sixty-one. → Read More
The Last Testament of a Former I.R.A. Terrorist
Patrick Radden Keefe writes that the documentary film “I, Dolours,” which premières this weekend, sheds new light on the murder of Jean McConville, one of the most infamous acts during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. → Read More
McMaster and Commander
Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none? → Read More
Donald Trump Speaks About the Opioid Crisis
On Thursday afternoon, the President delivered a speech on opioid abuse in America. Below, New Yorker writers offer some initial reactions to the news. → Read More
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts. → Read More
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Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington
Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line? → Read More
Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington
Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line? → Read More