Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore writes about Ruth Stout, an American radical known for the “no-work gardening” method, and the author of “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back.”

Jill Lepore reviews Walter Isaacson’s new book, about a founder of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of the social-media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

From the velocipede to the ten-speed, biking innovations brought riders freedom. But in a world built for cars, life behind handlebars is both charmed and dangerous. Jill Lepore on Jody Rosen’s “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.”

Jill Lepore on how efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

Jill Lepore on how the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters, Jill Lepore writes.

Jill Lepore on the history of an obscure Supreme Court ruling that sheds light on the ongoing debate over schooling and immigration.

What happened when a TV producer got the writer’s permission to adapt a beloved short story?

Jill Lepore goes in pursuit of the oral history Joseph Mitchell wrote about in “Joe Gould’s Secret.”

Jill Lepore on the case’s implications for Obergefell v. Hodges and the fight for reproductive rights in the Supreme Court.

The Web wasn’t built to preserve its past; the Wayback Machine aims to remedy that. Jill Lepore on the ethereal nature of the Web.

Jill Lepore on the theft of Justice Felix Frankfurter’s papers from the Library of Congress and how it changed the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman’s real origin story: she was a utopian feminist creation, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love.

Jill Lepore writes about Governor Andrew Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, the history of political corruption, and what the Constitution has to say on the matter.

Jill Lepore writes about the trend of marriage therapy and couples counselling, and examines how the practice started, in 1930, with Paul Popenoe’s marriage clinic.

What the leader of the cryonics movement is really preserving.

Since the Karen Ann Quinlan case, in 1975, the right to life and the right to die have become central to policy debates from abortion to health care. Jill Lepore examines the consequences.

Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life?

Jill Lepore writes about the history of American Presidents’ Inaugural Addresses, from George Washington to Barack Obama.