Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Reckoning - The Meta settlement will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram. It also reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech. (www.newyorker.com)
Rivers Cuomo Is Piecing It All Together - The singer-songwriter and Weezer front man on the making of the band’s new LP, the Gold Album, his relationship with his father, and the stories we tell about ourselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Simpson Reads “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub” - The author reads her story from the September 7, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub,” by Helen Simpson - A sense of impending doom—that was how Weary had described the feeling many people got, like a heaviness in the chest. (www.newyorker.com)
Helen Simpson on Our Timeline on This Planet - The author discusses her story “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Horse Song of a Nightmare,” by Joy Harjo - “It is raining, raining, raining. / The sky is falling, falling, falling.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” Was an Anthem, Then an Elegy - For a crew of young musicians in New York, the Brooklyn rapper’s killing was more than just a headline. (www.newyorker.com)
Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Way of Seeing - At seventy-five, she may be New Zealand’s greatest living artist. (www.newyorker.com)
“Just Kidding,” by Rita Dove - “A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a bar / and we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies.” (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur - Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference. (www.newyorker.com)
Where to Get Fire Outfits for Burning Man - Heading to the playa like Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg once did? Need a faux-fur coat or a secret stash pouch? The Burning Man Bazaar has you covered. (www.newyorker.com)
The Floods Nepal Didn’t Cause - Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it. (www.newyorker.com)
Going Through the Motions with Khloé Kardashian’s “The Girls” - Yes, there are Botox parties and rollerblading dates, but the women in the family’s latest spinoff give the sense that they are just clocking in at the reality-show office. (www.newyorker.com)
New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State - The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant. (www.newyorker.com)
How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines - At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet - Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children. (www.newyorker.com)
Kai Bird on Roy Cohn, a Founding Father of Donald Trump’s America - The biographer’s new book, “American Scoundrel,” details Cohn’s infamous tactics during the McCarthy purges, a sex-trafficking allegation, and his profound influence on Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Ian Frazier and Samy Burch on “Coyote vs. Acme” - Frazier, the author of the New Yorker humor essay that inspired the new, buzzy film, talks with Burch, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who reimagined it as a satire of legal thrillers. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold” - We will always love you. (www.newyorker.com)
Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin? - As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion. (www.newyorker.com)
Kacey Musgraves, Crossover Queen - Also: John David Washington plays a tech bro in “Disruption,” Samara Joy and Christian McBride perform at Central Park, Jacob Elordi’s stars in Ridley Scott’s latest movie, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
There’s No Place Like Group Chats - My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Adults,” Gen Z Gets the Hangout Sitcom It Deserves - The FX series, which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Google Chrome’s Latest Updates - We understand that downloading and re-starting your browser disrupts your workflow, but you weren’t working anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles - In the city’s burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots. (www.newyorker.com)
“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain - It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house. (www.newyorker.com)
What If Canada Joined the E.U.? - The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic. (www.newyorker.com)
What is Gen Z Afraid Of? - With “It Ends,” Alex Ullom takes his place in a cohort of young horror directors who are translating the anxieties of their generation to the big screen—and upending the film landscape while they’re at it. (www.newyorker.com)
Can We Learn Anything from the Lindsay Clancy Trial? - Both sides agree that Clancy killed her children. But neither can offer a satisfactory explanation for why—and that vacuum has fuelled sympathy, vilification, and conspiracy theories. (www.newyorker.com)
Dolly Parton, Honky-Tonk Angel - Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else. (www.newyorker.com)
Mark Wunderlich Reads Spencer Reece - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “My Great-Grandmother''s bible,” by Spencer Reece, and his own poem “The Bats.” (www.newyorker.com)
Dolly Parton for the People - She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones. (www.newyorker.com)
A Sex Tape Won’t Make You Famous Anymore - Influencers inspired by the Kardashian origin story seem to have drawn the wrong lessons from it. (www.newyorker.com)
Shirley Clarke Lived Her Art to the Fullest - A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works. - The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works. (www.newyorker.com)
The Quest to Cure Hangovers - Scientists still aren’t sure what makes us feel lousy after drinking—but that hasn’t stopped companies from touting new and purportedly scientific remedies. (www.newyorker.com)
Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right - Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians may prove more influential this November. (www.newyorker.com)
He Gave the Knicks Their Name. Why Was He Forgotten? - In “A Washington Irving Sketch Book,” the essayist Phillip Lopate tries to rescue New York City’s original mythmaker from literary oblivion. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump and Carney Face Off - Don’t discount the underdog. (www.newyorker.com)
South Carolina Republican Senate-Primary-Runoff Map: Live Results - Darline Graham and Ralph Norman compete for the G.O.P. nomination in November’s general election. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation - Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon. (www.newyorker.com)
The Least-Wanted Items at My Parents’ Estate Sale - Seventeen years’ worth of National Geographics, stacked by my father in order of “least to most erotic.” Price: 400. (www.newyorker.com)
Stumped by a Medical Mystery? Try Metagenomics - When doctors can’t figure out what’s ailing us, they can search our bodies for snippets of genetic material from viruses, bacteria, and fungi. (www.newyorker.com)
Is R.F.K., Jr., Winning or Losing? - A case for cautious optimism about the Trump Administration’s war on vaccines. (www.newyorker.com)
On Jackie the Eagle and the Nature of the Soul - Live-streaming tragedy and seduction from a nest in the San Bernardino Mountains. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians - Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run up to October’s election. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas - Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian thugs. His case is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian regime to silence its detractors. (www.newyorker.com)
The Humbling of Scott Bessent - Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to contain rising bond yields. (www.newyorker.com)
Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is? - Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a full term. Political insiders say she is a “black box.” (www.newyorker.com)
Drake’s “Janice STFU” on Every Corner - With his new album, “Iceman,” the master of the summer banger is not done airing his grievances. (www.newyorker.com)
Sean Duffy in the Real World - Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary got his big break on reality TV, and is now out with a six-part YouTube show about a family road trip. How bad could it be? (www.newyorker.com)
Meg Stalter Commits to the Bit - The “Hacks” actress and comedian on her red-carpet-outfit stunts, her star turn in “Oh Mary!,” and why she believes that God loves gays. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Zig Zag Oyster Bar - Contemplating life’s mysteries over a seafood tower at Zig Zag Oyster Bar. (www.newyorker.com)
What Natalie Harp Carries - Trump’s devoted aide, who is said to follow the President around with a printer, does not seem to be driven by the conventional desires for wealth and power. (www.newyorker.com)
Why People Want to Believe the Lindsay Clancy Conspiracy Theories - Mistrust about the case stems from understandable anger and sorrow at the ways women in extremis aren’t believed. (www.newyorker.com)
A Passage - Crossing into England, at twenty, with a false story. (www.newyorker.com)
Melissa Auf der Maur’s Chronicle of Nineties Rock - The photographer, who played bass for Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, captured a moment in which one generation’s subculture became the next generation’s mainstream. (www.newyorker.com)
General David Petraeus on the New Rules of War - How drones and asymmetric warfare are upending the battlefield and what the U.S. military can do to adapt. (www.newyorker.com)
Jessica Tarlov, a Lonely Liberal on Fox News’ “The Five” - Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of the President, who has encouraged Fox to fire her. (www.newyorker.com)
Jon Lovett Answers Your Questions - The “Pod Save America” host answers listeners’ questions about the 2026 midterm elections and what they tell us about the 2028 Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 21st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Get a Tech Job, Babies! - The puzzling rise in high-level science books for infants and toddlers. (www.newyorker.com)
A Political Awakening in Arab America - A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son. (www.newyorker.com)
Should You Believe in Fate? - We’d be happier, perhaps, if we found meaning not through abstractions but through the physical things around us. (www.newyorker.com)
Late Summertime Idylls by the Water - A roundup of bars on boats and at the beach. (www.newyorker.com)
The Boom of the Sex-Recession Movie - In films like “One Night Only” and “I Want Your Sex,” our prudish age becomes the scene of a crime. (www.newyorker.com)
Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America? - Trump claims that the institution has fallen into the hands of Marxist radicals. A stroll through the exhibitions suggests otherwise. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar - Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic. (www.newyorker.com)
After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran - The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can Head Start Be Deregulated Out of Existence? - The early-childhood program faces a renewed assault by the Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
The Podcast That’s Charting a Post-Trump Future - “America, Actually,” a new offering from Vox, is trying to talk about politics without talking about the President. Is that even possible? (www.newyorker.com)
What Your Swimwear Says About You - Yellow polka-dot bikini: you were deeply affected by a Yoplait Light commercial as a youth and consider this suit to be the physical manifestation of confidence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Every Weekday at 4:45 P.M.,” by Libby Flores - In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows” - The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time. (www.newyorker.com)
The Shifting Meaning of “Moderate” - Political labels can be useful shorthand. But some doubt how much they tell us about what draws voters to candidates. (www.newyorker.com)
The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal - In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work - For writers like me, who had crossed borders to arrive in the West, Ondaatje’s disregard for established boundaries taught us how to spell out our own liberation. (www.newyorker.com)
Three Books that Will Transport You - Be moved the old-fashioned way. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mark of the Machine - Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude. (www.newyorker.com)
“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political - Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing. (www.newyorker.com)
First-Date Montage - Yes, I am odd, but I am still multifaceted. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
How I Became a Subaru Socialist - By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. (www.newyorker.com)
Usher and Chris Brown’s Audacious Joint Tour - The R. & B. megastars seem to think their genre needs saving. But from what? (www.newyorker.com)
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America - How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race. (www.newyorker.com)
Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre - The customer-service representative from whom I’ve been waiting for a callback for fifty-three hours will call me back one minute before I turn my phone back on. (www.newyorker.com)
“The End of Oak Street” Is a Weirdly Alienated Jurassic Lark - In David Robert Mitchell’s film, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, a family is endangered not only by dinosaurs but also by the director’s penchant for Spielbergian nostalgia. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
New York’s Hottest Club Is . . . the Jacob Riis Bathhouse? - The Rockaway institution is now home to a flashy new members-only club, with a private pool and a co-working space. But how do the locals feel about it? (www.newyorker.com)
The Improbable Longevity of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” - The irreverent comedy is the longest-running sitcom in history, yet has won no major awards. What gives? (www.newyorker.com)
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands - Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of the European Summer - As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand. (www.newyorker.com)
A Crossword Odyssey - Alas, I’d left my épée on a wee mesa in SoHo. (www.newyorker.com)
Admissions Tour: Being a Person - In the real world, you can choose your meal plan: vegan, kosher, Sustainable, Totally Unsustainable, What Zendaya Eats in a Day, American Girl Doll food. Just swipe your card. (www.newyorker.com)
A Trump Grift Too Far? - A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit. (www.newyorker.com)
“Lament,” by Adrienne Su - “We were never a family of food snobs.” (www.newyorker.com)
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire Towers - After seventy-eight years, New Jersey finally has a new lookout spot for blazes. With more frequent wildfires and record temperatures, it’s not a moment too soon. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Bell, Curator of High Art - The Gotham weed dispensary’s content director gets stoned at N.Y.C. landmarks for her video series, “Hi, I’m High.” On a trip to the Guggenheim, she critiques kooky sculptures and reflects on her trippy career path. (www.newyorker.com)
How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil? - Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Yahoo Boys,” “Unsayable,” “Sunrise,” and “Skin Contact.” (www.newyorker.com)
Anatomy of a Sex Scandal - What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Hooters - The chain is attempting a wholesome revival. Will it work? (www.newyorker.com)
Diana Ejaita’s “Before the Plunge” - A moment of stillness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial - In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling. (www.newyorker.com)
“Saint Paul,” by Hieu Minh Nguyen - “All my friends have their gods & their heavens / & their plans on how to get there.” (www.newyorker.com)
Madhuri Vijay Reads “Hidden Life” - The author reads her story from the August 24 & 31, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote - The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: A Tasting Menu That Uses Every Last Scrap - At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance. (www.newyorker.com)
“Hidden Life,” by Madhuri Vijay - A tiny motor of pleasure had started to hum away inside her, but she was aware, too, of a flash of scorn. How easy it had been to arouse his admiration! (www.newyorker.com)
The Unlikely Reign of “Choosin’ Texas” - Ella Langley’s chart-topping lament is about what everyone wants to do in mid-August: give in and let go. (www.newyorker.com)
“Life of M,” Reviewed - “The Yahoo Boys,” “Unsayable,” “Sunrise,” and “Skin Contact.” (www.newyorker.com)
Madhuri Vijay on Cross-Generational Dynamics - The author discusses her story “Hidden Life.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Wealth and Glam of “The Hamptons” Looks Almost Quaint - Barbara Kopple’s documentary follows a generation of starlets, moguls, and other tanned partygoers who have no idea what tragedies and class anxieties lie in store. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lonely Men at the End of the World - In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else. (www.newyorker.com)
When Middle Age Comes Into Focus - A bevy of cultural sacraments marks our passage into adulthood, but the yawning decades beyond it unspool without ceremony. (www.newyorker.com)
Move Over, Aaron Judge—the Real Yankees M.V.P. Is George Costanza - After last year’s bobblehead-giveaway frenzy, the team is bringing Jason Alexander’s “Seinfeld” character back—this time, with a calzone. (www.newyorker.com)
How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense - After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on. (www.newyorker.com)
Gina Raimondo on Reclaiming the American Dream in the Age of A.I. - Democrats talk a lot about affordability. Could a message of prosperity be more powerful? (www.newyorker.com)
Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers - The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do. (www.newyorker.com)
Erin Brockovich Takes on Data Centers - The environmental activist has launched a project to document community concerns about the boom in data-center construction across the U.S. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth - The indie artist’s new album, “Lost Weekend,” is a document of both rupture and redemption. (www.newyorker.com)
Help—I’m a Narrator Stuck in the Calm.com Meditation App! - Sure, rhythmic, pattering rain can help regulate your nervous system, and trigger your autonomous sensory meridian response, but me? I’m wet. (www.newyorker.com)
Toons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in “Coyote vs. Acme” - Dave Green’s film about Wile E. Coyote’s quest for compensation sounds a note of zany triumph, having escaped, Road Runner-like, Warner’s attempt to cancel it. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s the Value of an Hour? - If the world seems to waste our time, it’s partly because we view time itself as a resource to be extracted and optimized. (www.newyorker.com)
A.O.C.’s Eggs and the Working Woman’s Inconvenient Truth - By preserving her fertility, the youngest woman elected to Congress is facing trade-offs familiar to many women. By doing it publicly, she’s driving conservatives crazy. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Do in New York City This Fall - Culture preview: what’s coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music. (www.newyorker.com)
Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right - Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world. (www.newyorker.com)
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Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington? - The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen - Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics’ Cult Classics: Hannah Goldfield on the Food World’s Secret Tastemakers - The New Yorker food correspondent discusses the recipes and restaurants that have defined the culinary good life—at least for those in the know. (www.newyorker.com)
Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? - A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Hobbler,” by Ingeborg Bachmann - Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days. (www.newyorker.com)
What Is Ibogaine and Why Is Trump Talking About It? - The President’s executive order accelerating research into compounds like ibogaine marks a striking turn for a party that was once on the front lines of the war on drugs. (www.newyorker.com)
POTUS on the Move - And no one’s the wiser. (www.newyorker.com)
What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats - The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment. (www.newyorker.com)
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Claudia Rankine Plays Dead - In “Triage,” the writer explores how we should respond—or, perhaps, not respond—to a world in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
What to Read After “Lonesome Dove” - The Larry McMurtry novel is back in rotation; we asked our critics what book to pick up next. (www.newyorker.com)
Perez Hilton and Our Live-Streaming Nightmare - There is nothing that speaks more to our perma-tabloid social environment than the advent of the live stream, which has allowed ordinary people to become both the celebrity and the paparazzi of their own lives. (www.newyorker.com)
America!: Newly Declassified Secrets from the C.I.A.’s Ice-Cream Archives - Orange-creamsicle lovers and a cult of soft-serve radicals, revealed. (www.newyorker.com)
What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North - Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Receding Skyline - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy - Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views. (www.newyorker.com)
Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film? - A young auto racer brings speed and passion to small-town life in an unsung American auteur’s latest work. (www.newyorker.com)
Minnesota Primary Map - The Democratic race for the Senate nomination offers another contest between the Party’s establishment and progressive wings. (www.newyorker.com)
If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React? - The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise. (www.newyorker.com)
Instructions for Pet-Sitting My Dog, Cerberus - It’s just an old habit for him to block the front door. If he’s stationed there, do not order delivery. (www.newyorker.com)
South Carolina Primary-Election Map: Live Results - A special election to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July. (www.newyorker.com)
Wisconsin Primary-Election Map: Live Results - Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, is the presumptive front-runner in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. (www.newyorker.com)
Where Wild Things Go - Rummaging through the classics. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside Russia’s New Gulag - Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell. (www.newyorker.com)
Are You a Human? - From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative. (www.newyorker.com)
The Delusions of John Roberts - The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Savage Landscape,” “Presence,” “It’s All River,” and “The Shampoo Effect.” (www.newyorker.com)
Edward Steed’s “Midnight Bloom” - The sea in full swing. (www.newyorker.com)
“Cereus,” by Henri Cole - “After the box wine, the chicken thighs, and Nancy’s spice cake, / we lounged around talking of poetry, manure, and flowers.” (www.newyorker.com)
Eat the Lotus! - Times editors realized that, unless emergency procedures were initiated, the next day’s edition would contain not a single article about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”! (www.newyorker.com)
The Great Delegalization - More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away. (www.newyorker.com)
The World’s Borough Gets a New Slogan - In 2007, local artists painted a mural decreeing “Queens is the future.” Now the tagline is proudly displayed on welcome signs—right above the name of Astoria’s own Zohran Mamdani. (www.newyorker.com)
I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy - Atlanta has more street cameras per capita than anywhere outside of China. On a walking tour of the city, can anti-surveillance vigilantes spot—and dodge—them all? (www.newyorker.com)
Pope.L’s Pleasing Refusal to Be Interpreted - Whether crawling through New York in a suit or painting with peanut butter, the artist remained loyal to his own impish curiosity. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble? - The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom. (www.newyorker.com)
The Many Masks of Dan Hoyle - The actor performs real people’s stories onstage—from loyal Trump voters to superfans of the band Phish. Now he’s bringing his “journalistic theatre” back to Joe’s Pub. (www.newyorker.com)
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Hannah Einbinder’s Tricks and Treats - At a year-round Halloween store, the “Hacks” actress dishes on her new film, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” in which she couples up with Gillian Anderson and is chased by a psycho killer. (www.newyorker.com)
“Horses,” by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated, from the Persian, by Siavash Saadlou) - “Whatever part of Tehran / I place a hand on, it is aching.” (www.newyorker.com)
The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It? - Cold War policymakers pushed for a unified Continent. Their MAGA successors are trying to undo all that. (www.newyorker.com)
Hannah Arendt’s American Education - The writer’s political ideal—citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate—had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side. (www.newyorker.com)
The Doulas Who Help Us Die - In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s profile of the gynecologist Sally Greenwald, Nikhil Krishnan’s review of “How to Kill a Language,” by Sophia Smith Galer, and Louis Menand’s piece about Andres Serrano’s photograph “Piss Christ” and America’s culture wars. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pyrrhic Victories of “House of the Dragon” - Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting. (www.newyorker.com)
A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue - As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year - The début novelist behind “Yesteryear” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne Hathaway’s plans to adapt her best-seller for the screen. (www.newyorker.com)
A Short Song for a Long and Precious Season - Jason Isbell’s “Something to Love” is the song of summers past and summers to come. (www.newyorker.com)
Emma Cline on Rendering the Human Experience - The author discusses her story “The Blight.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Blight,” by Emma Cline - You weighed the future anger of others against the present trouble, and then you pretty much said, O.K. Kick the can down the road. (www.newyorker.com)
Ariana Grande and the Disappointment of Diagnosis - The pop star’s appearance has prompted fans to speculate that she’s suffering from an eating disorder. How should we talk about famous women’s bodies? (www.newyorker.com)
My Birthright - When you immigrate, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why I can’t stop writing about where I’m from? (www.newyorker.com)
Andrew Weissmann Thinks Donald Trump Can Be Held to Account - The President believes he’s above the law. A former federal prosecutor disagrees. (www.newyorker.com)
The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General - A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse. (www.newyorker.com)
How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains - Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.” (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Smith on Their New Album, “Hazel Eyes” - The Grammy-winning singer talks about “Hazel Eyes,” which marks a departure for them: these love songs are very much requited. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom - The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured? - For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause. (www.newyorker.com)
Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now? - How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub. (www.newyorker.com)
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose - Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Jeanine Pirro, Antihero - Honesty isn’t always the best policy. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, August 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Godmother of the “Conspiracy Mom” - Sixty years ago, a J.F.K.-assassination buff in Oklahoma provided a preview of a contemporary archetype. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tributaries,” by Kyle Edwards - He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both. (www.newyorker.com)
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost - A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night” - The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime. (www.newyorker.com)
A Mostly True History of Marco Rubio - No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows. (www.newyorker.com)
Max Miller’s Victim Mentality - The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible. (www.newyorker.com)
Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards” - The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, August 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed - The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment. (www.newyorker.com)
Four Histories of Race in America - The works Lauren Collins drew on while writing her new book “They Stole a City.” (www.newyorker.com)
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Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants” - There’s a story we tell ourselves on social media any time a child of money or fame vaults into public life. (www.newyorker.com)
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What Makes an Adaptation Good? - The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema. (www.newyorker.com)
How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era - This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? (www.newyorker.com)
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves - Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand. (www.newyorker.com)
As the World Burns - Inaction in action. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results - A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party. (www.newyorker.com)
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed - The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party. (www.newyorker.com)
What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit - I’d have dozens of packages shipped to me from USPSS, USP, and FidEx that only require my signature to obtain. (www.newyorker.com)
What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi? - A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate? - The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference - The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections. (www.newyorker.com)
Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem - The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
“I Who Have Never Known Men” and “We Were Forbidden,” Reviewed - Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era. (www.newyorker.com)
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything - The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media. (www.newyorker.com)
Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow - The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time. (www.newyorker.com)
Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again - At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut. (www.newyorker.com)
“Enjambment,” by Megan Fernandes - “Oh, / thing, poor thing, little thing, thing thinging, thing is / a beautiful mess.” (www.newyorker.com)
Shouts & Murmurs by Larry Doyle: Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected - Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Daylight Come,” “Scavenging Beauty,” “Dooneen,” and “Queen Mab.” (www.newyorker.com)
Battle of the Dans - Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan are both vying for a Senate seat in Alaska. Who will take the Last Frontier? (www.newyorker.com)
The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up - Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations. (www.newyorker.com)
The Future, Made in China - Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. (www.newyorker.com)
Eric Wareheim, Plant Dad - The “Master of None” actor and half of the duo Tim and Eric turned his post-divorce hobby—collecting Dr. Seussian trees and shrubs—into a hipster business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler as clients. (www.newyorker.com)
“wasps,” by Jan Wagner - “how starkly clear you hear them gnawing / at the wood of lawn chairs near the awning.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice - Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again. (www.newyorker.com)
Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” - A reprieve from the city’s chaos. (www.newyorker.com)
How Golden Is Silence, Actually? - A secret history of shutting up. (www.newyorker.com)
The Best Books of 2026 So Far - Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Promise,” by Rachel Yoder - You couldn’t be certain, in the night, what sort of world the doors might open onto, were you to turn the knob. (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Yoder on a Mennonite Childhood and a Story About the Devil - The author discusses her story “The Promise.” (www.newyorker.com)
When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco - The 2013 Daft Punk track was uncannily evocative of the late nineteen-seventies, when I was young and dancing was my creed. (www.newyorker.com)
Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith - The actor on meeting Stephen Sondheim, staging “Godspell” for the Pope, and the thrill, in the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, of playing someone “good.” (www.newyorker.com)
Rachel Yoder Reads “The Promise” - The author reads her story from the August 10, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
What If We Can Never Trust A.I.? - Like humans, the technology will never be perfect. The question is what imperfections we’re willing to tolerate. (www.newyorker.com)
Forget Albums—Pop Stars Measure Their Careers in Eras Now - Since the earthshaking success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, artists from the Weeknd to Ariana Grande have tried to imbue their live shows with a sense of history. (www.newyorker.com)
The Flawless Surface of Yves Saint Laurent - A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography presents the designer precisely as he wanted to be seen. (www.newyorker.com)
The Failures of the Fauci Hearing - Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Is Europe Burning? - “We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said. (www.newyorker.com)
Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. (www.newyorker.com)
Obsession-Worthy Stories: A Washington Summer Roundtable - The co-hosts compare notes on the most captivating political dramas of the summer, from Fauci’s Senate hearing to China’s rise on the international stage. (www.newyorker.com)
Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories - Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing. (www.newyorker.com)
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party - The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Democratic Socialist Running for Mayor of Los Angeles - The city-council member Nithya Raman was an ally of Karen Bass, but Raman launched a challenge against her to bring more “urgency” to fighting the city’s housing crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Outlandish Case Against James Comey - The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.” (www.newyorker.com)
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play - Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Desire and Terror Meet - Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars - The oak processionary caterpillar, which is spreading as Europe warms, fills the air with microscopic hairs that inflict excruciating rashes. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Samurai and the Prisoner” Fits a War Epic Into an Elegant Puzzle Box - In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama, a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress yields even more confounding questions about faith, war, and leadership. (www.newyorker.com)
The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain - Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face - Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
Mitch McConnell: The Musical - Ode to a sitting senator. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America - The agency was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message. (www.newyorker.com)
Memorandum from the National Review Committee for National Day Designations - The Committee continues to recognize National Pizza Day, but denies the petition for a distinct New York-Style Pizza Day. (www.newyorker.com)
“Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World - Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November? - Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former. (www.newyorker.com)
The Irony and the Ecstasy of Colson Whitehead - The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance. (www.newyorker.com)
“One and No One,” by Gabriel Winslow-Yost - When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp. (www.newyorker.com)
The Woman Who Took On the N.R.A. After Two Gun Suicides - A devastating personal story reveals why firearm suicide has remained a blind spot in America’s gun debate. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 29th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
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Richard Blanco Reads Elizabeth Bishop - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.” (www.newyorker.com)
Three Books Sheila Heti Recommends - The author of “Motherhood” answers our questions about her reading habits. (www.newyorker.com)
Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World - The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him. (www.newyorker.com)
The Department of Labored Content - Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same as being good at it. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: How to Have Some of It All? - Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” - The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium. (www.newyorker.com)
Charli XCX and the Strokes Are (Sort of) Making Rock Music - Both artists have released new albums—“Music, Fashion, Film” and “Reality Awaits”—that seesaw between raw sincerity and punkish insouciance. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 28th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Kids Are Kind of Alright - Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race - The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. (www.newyorker.com)
Bari Weiss Is On It - Our first goal, as with “60 Minutes,” is balance. Lake Mead has been on the north side of the Hoover Dam for too long. When we’re finished, it will be on the south side, too. (www.newyorker.com)
How Bots Took Over Our Lives - During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Myth of the Food Desert - Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem? (www.newyorker.com)
Exit Memo - Following a review, I have decided to dissolve our relationship. This decision reflects a strategic realignment of my emotional resources and should not be interpreted as a comment on your over-all market value. (www.newyorker.com)
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect - The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying. (www.newyorker.com)
“Tick Check,” by Michael Dickman - “A living freckle / That knows your name and knows / That it is spring and feels a kind of imaginary privacy.” (www.newyorker.com)
What Would It Mean to See a New Color? - Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision. (www.newyorker.com)
Fab Morvan Takes Back His Voice - Decades after Milli Vanilli’s lip-synching scandal, the singer is still reclaiming his legacy—with a documentary, an EP, and an almost-performance at Trump’s state fair. (www.newyorker.com)
Take Me Out to the Brainball Game - Hundreds of neurosurgeons gathered in Central Park for inter-hospital softball. Who took home the skull-shaped trophy? (www.newyorker.com)
Get Yer Statue of Liberty Here! - The Hamptons Fine Art Fair recently exhibited a ten-foot Lady Liberty. Noble, solemn, and—wait, how much? (www.newyorker.com)
John Leguizamo Is a Noble Fellow - The “Ice Age” actor steals Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” as a loyal swineherd to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. Back in New York, he bought the director a two-thousand-year-old thank-you gift. (www.newyorker.com)
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief - What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation. (www.newyorker.com)
How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger - Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Renoir Girls,” “Little Blue Dot,” “Air,” and “I Want You to Be Happy.” (www.newyorker.com)
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Repose” - Soaking up the sun. (www.newyorker.com)
“Any Younger,” by Natalie Shapero - “Only some of me / is here on Earth.” (www.newyorker.com)
Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now? - It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging? (www.newyorker.com)