1. When Marvel Meets “Much Ado About Nothing” - A splashy new production of the play may give a sense of where Shakespeare productions are heading.
2. Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 28th - “This is great! I’ve got so much sand in my eyes and mouth, I’m not thinking about politics at all.”
3. Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Going Back to War - The public’s fears for the fate of the ceasefire and the hostages have become a struggle over the rule of law.
4. An Overpriced “Othello” Goes Splat on Broadway - Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.
5. Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices” - The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.
6. The Six-Figure Nannies and Housekeepers of Palm Beach - An influx of ultra-high-net-worth newcomers has increased demand for experienced—and discreet—household staff.
7. Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks - Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness,” and more.
8. Will Trump’s Gulf of America Power Trip Break the White House Press Corps? - The Associated Press had its day in court on Thursday, but free speech in this Presidency is already a big loser.
9. How Donald Trump Throttled Big Law - The President has two goals: to seek revenge and to intimidate lawyers challenging his agenda. Is a top firm’s deal with him a necessary act of survival or a damaging blow to the entire profession?
10. Bonus Daily Cartoon: Extracurricular Activity - “What time did they say this kid gets out of class again?”
12. The Millennial Exit - We were raised on red-40 cereals and people-pleasing! Shouldn’t any of that count for something?!
13. Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker, and the Art of the Hang - New forms of media that invite intense parasociality are capturing the attention of young men. What does it portend for our politics?
14. Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA? - “NASA is going to be politicized in a way that it’s never been politicized before,” the reporter David W. Brown says. “And I’m afraid there’s no way to undo that once it’s happened.”
15. The Cinematic Glories of Manoel de Oliveira’s Endless Youth - The Portuguese director, who made twenty-two features after the age of eighty, rejuvenated the art of movies by linking personal experience to the arc of history.
16. The Greater Scandal of Signalgate - The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted.
17. Edward Hirsch Reads Gerald Stern - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.”
18. Women Who Made Amanda Seyfried Feel Less Alone - The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress discusses four books that examine some of the struggles that come with being a daughter, wife, and mother.
19. “Airless Spaces” Captures the Nadir of the Second Wave - If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself.
20. Deadlifting in Your Nineties, in “Strong Grandma” - An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary.
21. Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 26th - “OMG, I got into my first-choice college currently being dismantled by the government!”
22. How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency - The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington.
23. Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes - We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.
25. Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America? - After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade.
26. The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” - Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction.
28. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy - In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
29. The Government’s Rock Librarian - Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that she believed her job would be safe.
30. The Long Shadow of the Kennedys - The latest release of J.F.K. assassination files so far doesn’t show much—except for the Kennedy name’s continued hold on the country.
33. How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away - When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
35. Carol Leifer Can Make You Funny - In a new book, the “Seinfeld” and “S.N.L.” writer shares the secrets to the perfect toast: don’t drink too much, and, remember, the Gettysburg Address was only two minutes long.
36. Haley Mlotek’s “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce,” Reviewed - The battle for custody of a contested institution.
37. Story Time with the Man Who Oversaw SEAL Team Six - After a military career that included helping take out bin Laden, Admiral William McRaven has assembled a new squad: Caring Cow, Persevering Penguin, and Forgiving Frog.
38. Don’t Believe Trump’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net - The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
39. Alabaster DePlume Grapples with It - The saxophonist and jazz poet (real name Angus Fairbairn) hit the jujitsu mat at a Wall Street dojo.
40. Why We Can’t Quit Talking About Jesus - Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.
41. The Elements of Style, 2025 - Updating Strunk and White. Link two thoughts with a semicolon, as in: He’s not even the real President; the other, even weirder billionaire seems to be in charge.
42. Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about Lillian Ross’s Profile of Ernest Hemingway and Burkhard Bilger’s article about high-school marching bands.
43. Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient - From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?
45. Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Seeking Shelter,” “Dust and Light,” “What You Make of Me,” and “Casualties of Truth.”
46. The Quintessentially American Story of Indian Pizza - In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a phenomenon.
47. The Art Works in Flannery O’Connor’s Attic - In an old Georgia mansion, a team of the writer’s devotees found a dusty wooden box: inside were two dozen of her never-seen oil paintings.
48. Dirty Projectors Creates a Symphony for a Burning World - Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, and the peril, of nature.
49. “Woman in a Landscape,” by Robin Becker - “Naked, I wanted / to be useful to her in the color fields / of July and August.”
51. The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons - The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.
52. Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore” - The author reads his story from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine.
53. Richard Brody on Pauline Kael’s “Notes on Heart and Mind” - The movie critic’s informal manifesto reflects both her brilliance and her blind spots during a revolutionary period in Hollywood.
54. The E.P.A. vs. the Environment - With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.
55. “Hatagaya Lore,” by Bryan Washington - The bar was mostly empty, but Aaliyah was playing, so I passed the bartender some yen, and after he mixed my drink he lingered in front of me.
56. Helen, Help Me: Should I Be Cooking with Ostrich Eggs? - Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.
57. Disney’s “Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work - Loathed even before its release, the latest live-action version of an animated classic embodies many of the cynical moves of the remake racket.
58. Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance? - “If they don’t stand up to Trump right now on this kind of power grab, then the pretenses of what the courts are for will be really exposed,” Michael Waldman, the C.E.O. of the Brennan Center for Justice, says.
59. The Flawed Heart of “Adolescence” - The creators of the British miniseries think of the contemporary English boy as a fragile creature, abandoned by society.
60. For Elias Williams, the Hip-Hop Beat Machine Carries the Soul of Community - In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of New York City.
61. Your A.I. Lover Will Change You - A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?
62. Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education - The President cannot legally shut down a government agency, but his Administration could make it essentially impossible for the D.O.E. to function.
63. The Hitchcockian Wonders of “Misericordia” - Alain Guiraudie’s intimate thriller, about sex and death in a rustic village, bends classic tropes into modern forms.
64. Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job - The CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent talks with the guest host Clare Malone about covering Trump’s Administrations—and how his circle isn’t as hostile as it seems.
65. A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation - Soon after October 7th, Hisham Awartani and two Palestinian friends were shot on the street in Vermont. At home in the West Bank, he contemplates the prospect of Israeli annexation.
67. In “The Alto Knights,” Robert De Niro Sings a Familiar Gangland Tune - The great veteran of Mafia roles, cast as the rival bosses Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, anchors Barry Levinson’s exploration of mid-century Mob life.
68. What to Watch That Isn’t “The White Lotus” - Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.
69. What Gavin Newsom’s Embarrassing Podcast Suggests About the Democratic Party - There’s a new strategy of disavowal emerging among some progressive politicians—and it is destined to fail.
70. A British Detective Comedy About a Reclusive Puzzle-Maker - In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world.
71. The Resurrection of a Lost Yiddish Novel - At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of modernity.
72. Getting Back Into the Swing of Things - It’s never a good idea to plunge headfirst into work after a long vacation, lest you overwhelm your system.
73. Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA - So far, *NASA*{: .small} has been spared the sweeping cuts that *DOGE*{: .small} has unleashed on other federal agencies. Is that about to change?
74. Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief - What does it mean to have a President who views his time in office as the biggest, bestest Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical ever?
75. Why “Constitutional Crisis” Fails to Capture Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law - The Administration’s defiance of Congress and the judiciary has both flouted and made use of the country’s legal system.
77. “Being Maria” Brings Maria Schneider’s Traumatic Career to Light - Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects.
79. “Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown - Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.
80. Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants? - A rarely invoked 1798 law, the Alien Enemies Act, may have set off a constitutional crisis.
81. Critics at Large Live: The Right to Get It Wrong - The hundred-year history of The New Yorker includes reviews that anointed now classic works—as well as some that feel wildly out of step today. But is going against the grain such a bad thing?
82. The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche - Davey Wreden found acclaim in his twenties, with the Stanley Parable and the Beginner’s Guide. His new game, Wanderstop, grapples with the depression that followed.
83. “Who by Fire” Is a Brilliant Drama of Male Rage at Its Most Elemental - In Philippe Lesage’s film, several strains of wounded masculinity derail an idyllic retreat in the mountains of Quebec.
84. Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness - Yale’s resident well-being expert talks about what it means to live a good life and shares some books that might help us get within reach of one.
86. The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard - The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
87. Pro-Greed Fables for Crypto Executives - When the king took bread and bit down on a hard golden crust, he realized his mistake, and said, “What if we had it not work like that?” So Dionysus modified the blessing such that King Midas turned everything he touched into gold unless that was bad.
88. The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts - In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.
89. Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 18th - “I’m sorry, we did everything we could before Elon cut our funding.”
90. Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times - Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen as different.
91. Mahmoud Khalil and the Last Time Pro-Palestinian Activists Faced Deportation - Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight, in which a group of students were targeted, not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.
92. Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog - A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.
93. And Deliver Us from Elon - Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?
94. The Girl Who Gave Me Hope for Gaza - As a doctor at Al-Aqsa Hospital, I saw what a collapse in the ceasefire could mean—and what can happen when a patient is given a chance.
95. Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 17th - “Is that your ‘thinking about dinner’ look, or your ‘lost in a wordless fog of horror’ look?”
96. Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” - The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.
97. “Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin” - “In this life, if you do not know what you are looking for, // how can you find it?”
98. Spy Games with “Operation Mincemeat” - The stars of a British spy-caper musical, now on Broadway, hit up an espionage museum to see whether they can actually crack codes and dodge lasers.
99. “Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration - Vincenzo Latronico’s slender volume captures a culture of exquisite taste, tender sensitivities, and gnawing discontent.
100. Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.”
101. The Brooklyn Bridge Gets a Glow-Up - When the bridge went L.E.D., an entrepreneurial stuff-flipper bought a bunch of the old lights, for thirty-five dollars a pop.
102. The Case of the Met’s Missing Banksy - The street artist snuck a “brilliant” art work into the Met, in 2005. Then it disappeared. Does a former head of security know where the painting is?
103. Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Jessica Winter’s review of “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” by Pagan Kennedy, and Nicola Twilley’s article about artificial blood.
104. What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next? - The Irish designer turned Loewe into fashion’s most coveted brand by radically reinterpreting classic garments. Now he seems poised to make over Dior.
105. Even Donald Trump’s Historical Role Model Had Second Thoughts About Tariffs - President William McKinley was a steadfast protectionist—until a depression and a G.O.P. wipeout.
106. “You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” Reviewed - Kelsey McKinney, a podcast host and a champion of gossip, is out to change the practice’s bad reputation.
107. How an American Radical Reinvented Back-Yard Gardening - Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But her secrets went beyond the garden plot.
108. Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero - Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect.
110. Updated Kennedy Center 2025 Schedule - Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more!
111. Democratic Resistance Strategies - Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.
113. The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus - The singer-songwriter talks about boygenius, the perils of love, and “Forever Is a Feeling,” her new album.
114. “The Frenzy,” by Joyce Carol Oates - With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she is in his custody, so to speak.
115. Saul Steinberg’s Masterful Language of Lines - The artist’s seemingly simple pen strokes were capable of capturing both the gravity and the absurdity of peacetime and war.
116. Restaurant Review: La Tête d’Or and the Revenge of the American Steak House - The ne plus ultra of expense-account dining is making a comeback, with help from the indefatigable French chef Daniel Boulud.
117. Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy” - The author reads her story from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine.
118. Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure - The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.
119. Naomi Fry on Jay McInerney’s “Chloe’s Scene” - In McInerney’s telling, Chloë Sevigny, then a young It Girl, was the font from which absolute cool flowed. She was New York.
120. The Case of Mahmoud Khalil - If the Trump Administration comes out on the wrong side of this fight, it will be because defending free speech remains a politically lucid and powerful principle.
122. The Long Nap of the Lazy Bureaucrat - The stereotype of the unmotivated official, which has fuelled Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on government workers, has existed for as long as bureaucracy itself.
123. Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines - The former Vanity Fair editor recalls a time when the expense accounts were limitless, the photo shoots were lavish, and the stakes seemed high. What else has been lost?
124. The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington - What do the believers in “tech supremacy” plan to do with the federal government?
125. The Unsettling Cheer of “The Baldwins” - Alec Baldwin’s new married-with-children reality show is full of forced merriment. But tragedy lurks beneath the surface.
126. The Parental Panic of “Adolescence” - The Netflix series about a thirteen-year-old killer attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.
128. We the Builders: Federal Employees Stand Up to DOGE - Workers share what life is like under Trump’s budget cuts, and why they’re speaking out.
129. Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw” - Gawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance to America and to the world, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring.
130. Celebrating 100 Years: Michael Cunningham on “Brokeback Mountain” - The novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story about two young men who fall in love. “I didn’t want to just read it. I wanted to absorb this story in a more lasting way.”
132. The British Hits Are Coming - Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ’s Jonathan Larson; and more.
133. The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge - Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from *DOGE*{: .small}?
134. The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault on Free Speech - Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly un-American—and possibly unpopular, too.
135. The Strange Experimental-Theatre Experience Giving New Meaning to “Show, Don’t Tell” - The minds behind “You Me Bum Bum Train,” which has sparked a ticket frenzy, discuss re-creating real-life scenarios, crafting a show that gives people “epiphanies,” and why they ask participants to sign an N.D.A.
136. Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do? - “Tariff Man” is gonna tariff—and other lessons from the predictably unpredictable President’s return to power.
137. “An Unfinished Film” Puts the Pandemic in the Spotlight - This historical docufiction, directed by Lou Ye, boldly dramatizes the outbreak of *COVID*{: .small} in China by way of its impact on a movie shoot.
138. Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 13th - “Maybe we should fight some of our international conflicts the old-fashioned way, like with a chess match, or a race to the moon?”
139. Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession? - “I always compare tariffs to a boxing match,” the staff writer John Cassidy says. “The other guy punches you back, you punch, and who’s gonna stop it?”
140. The Silencing of Russian Art - Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?
141. Our Modern Glut of Choice - A mind-boggling array of options defines nearly every aspect of our world today, including shopping, dating, and entertainment. Is such abundance making our lives better?
142. Uneven Revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts” - Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.
143. The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service - The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm damage across the country.
144. How to Watch Our Show - Subscribe to the belief that time is merely a construct, so who among us can ever really say “when” a new season of a television show will be available for viewing.
145. “Mayhem,” Reviewed: Lady Gaga’s Return to Form - Her new album is a work of self-citation, rummaging around in Gaga’s own past for inspiration. It’s also, somehow, the freshest collection of songs she has released in years.
146. Mahmoud Khalil’s Constitutional Rights and the Power of ICE - A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.
147. The Deliriously Witty Spy Games of “Black Bag” - In Steven Soderbergh’s latest caper, Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender prove that monogamy is no mission impossible.
148. Jesmyn Ward Delights in Being Bewildered - The author of “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” discusses the rewards of reading laborious novels.
149. The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins - How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.
150. Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections - Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.
151. Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 12th - “We’ll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are back in charge.”
152. The Maddening Disconnect of Phone Therapy in “Happy to Help You,” featuring Amy Sedaris - Jeremy Beiler’s short film follows a mental-health volunteer’s unravelling after a caller gets under his skin.
153. Why Ruth Marcus Left the Washington Post - Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit.
154. “The Empire” Goes Beyond Good and Evil—to Rural France - Bruno Dumont’s action-fantasy satire is all the greater for its loving, quasi-documentary attention to ordinary life.
155. Ruben Gallego Thinks Liberals Shouldn’t Panic - The new Arizona senator argues that Donald Trump’s agenda is largely popular but destined to fail.
156. Why John Mearsheimer Thinks Donald Trump Is Right on Ukraine - And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin.
157. Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 11th - “Your time machine works, Nikola Tesla! And what is the future like? Is your name associated only with your groundbreaking achievements?”
158. Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security - A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
159. The Past and Future of Greenland - After centuries of foreign domination, the island stands at a crossroads, buffeted by geopolitical winds largely beyond its control.
160. Why Skiing Is My Favorite Thing Ever - It’s so much fun spending hours gathering the ninety-seven things I’ll need for the day and then layering all of them on my body.
161. Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 10th - “Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.”
162. The Unchecked Authority of Greg Abbott - The Texas governor gained national attention by busing migrants to Democratic cities. Now he’s paving the way for President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign.
163. “One Vessel,” by Henri Cole - “I’ve had the time of my life, friends, / living quietly like a snail in a pocket.”
164. Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “A Matter of Complexion,” “The Moral Circle,” “The Boyhood of Cain,” and “Theory & Practice.”
165. Whoopi Goldberg’s Shoe-and-Tell - The “View” host gives a private tour of her two hundred and eighty-eight pairs, from glittery Dr. Martens to banana-peel heels.
166. Should We View Tatlin as a Russian Constructivist or a Ukrainian? - In “Tatlin: Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.
167. What’s Next for Ukraine? - The war’s underlying logic has been flipped on its head since the White House meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.
168. Akram Khan’s “Gigenis” Mines the Drama of Indian Classical Dance - In a piece loosely inspired by the Mahabharata, performers from various traditions enact a dance that feels like a collective ritual of mourning.
169. Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Dexter Filkins’s piece about the military’s recent recruiting struggles.
170. What Do We Buy Into When We Buy a Home? - Homeownership, long a cherished American ideal, has become the subject of black comedies, midlife-crisis novels, and unintentionally dystopic reality TV.
171. The Case of the Missing Elvis - When a kitschy bust of the King was swiped from the East Village restaurant where it had lived for thirty-seven years, the theft ignited a fight over the soul of downtown.
172. Will Trumpian Uncertainty Knock the Economy Into a Recession? - There is only so much policy chaos that households, businesses, and financial markets can take.
173. “Night Court” Goes to Night Court - With the reboot of the beloved sitcom in its third season, John Larroquette, its star, finds that the show’s Burbank set is as dingy as the real thing in downtown Manhattan.
174. “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” Reviewed - The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
176. New York’s Pickiest Doorman Gets a Piece of the Action - Frankie Carattini has worked the door for Baz Luhrmann, Stella McCartney, and Anne Hathaway (and he once turned away Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Now he brings his “encyclopedia of faces” to bear at People’s, a new club downtown.
177. Zyn and the New Nicotine Gold Rush - White snus pouches were designed to help Swedish women quit cigarettes. They’ve become a staple for American dudes.
178. “Saint Hyacinth Basilica,” by Patrycja Humienik - “When devotion is self-betrayal, / the body knows.”
179. How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics - At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end?
180. Can Artificial Intelligence Stir-Fry? - Ed Zitron, an A.I. skeptic worried about “rot-com” in the tech industry, gives robot-fried chicken a try.
181. Prayers for Everyday Life - Good God Almighty, Holy, and Merciful, how do you get these tear-off produce bags to open?
182. Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits - Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.
183. Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science - Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
184. The Fate of Migrants Detained at Guantánamo - In the early nineteen-nineties, Haitian refugees and asylum seekers were held on the base in abysmal conditions. Their experience now seems like a preview of what’s to come.
185. The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence - For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.
186. Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies” - The author reads her story from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine.
187. Louisa Thomas on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” - The article, about Ted Williams’s final game, was described as the best piece about baseball The New Yorker ever printed—which, Updike later allowed, was small praise.
188. Yiyun Li on Fiction with Little Space for Illusion - The author discusses her story “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies.”
189. “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” by Yiyun Li - It’s astonishing, Lilian often thought, that people feel this urge to talk about themselves with a stranger, however much or little they have lived.
190. America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived? - Julius Caesar pressured the Senate, won popular support by fomenting class warfare, and sported a combover. The constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen discusses the parallels.
191. The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies - Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
192. The Dangers of R.F.K., Jr.,’s Measles Response - The H.H.S. Secretary has touted over-the-counter remedies and stressed that the decision to vaccinate is “personal.”
193. Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express - This was not a luxury train, but even here, as in Indian society as a whole, the distinctions between the haves and the have-nots were clear.
194. How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars - The former senator faces prison time for accepting bribes in cash and gold, and for related crimes. Then he made a thinly veiled plea to the President whom he had once voted to impeach.
195. What Donald Trump Has Got Wrong, and Right, About the War in Ukraine - The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin looks at America’s turning point in supporting Ukraine.
197. The Resounding Silences of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” - In Rungano Nyoni’s drama, a death in a middle-class Zambian family unearths a history of sexual violence.
198. “Eephus” Is as Surprising as the Baseball Pitch It’s Named For - In Carson Lund’s stylistically innovative directorial début, two amateur teams say farewell to a beloved field—but will their game yield a result?
199. Othership, the SoulCycle of Spas - Plus: Photographs of labor and solidarity at I.C.P., the Roots bring jazz rap to the Blue Note, the unstoppable Twyla Tharp, and more.
200. Can Americans Still Be Convinced That Principle Is Worth Fighting For? - The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine.
201. Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity - Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it.
202. Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 6th - Sarah Kempa’s Daily Cartoon humorously riffs on Elon Musk and DOGE’s firing of federal workers and conflicting orders regarding five accomplishments.
204. How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office - In its second season, the show continues to indict the corporate workplace while secretly longing for it.
205. Eric Adams and Donald Trump’s Curious Alliance - “Donald Trump ran for President promising vengeance,” the staff writer Eric Lach says. “The Adams situation is in some ways fascinating because it’s part of the demonstration of, like, the flip side of that, which is leniency for friends.”
206. London Is a Local-News Desert. What Comes Next? - After the Evening Standard, the city’s last daily paper, went weekly, a hodgepodge of small news sources sprang up.
207. How “The Pitt” Diagnoses America’s Ills - Max’s new medical drama puts the daily grind of a resource-strapped E.R. on full display. At a time when Americans are angrier at the health-care system than ever, is the genre changing to meet the moment?
209. How Many Immigrants Will Die in U.S. Custody? - More detentions will lead to more deaths, but the Trump Administration has options to conceal the losses.
210. Jeremy Denk’s Musical Account of American Divisions - The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.
211. Donald Trump’s A.I. Propaganda - Artificially generated videos of Gaza as a beach resort and of migrant detention as A.S.M.R. are creating a digital mirror world of the future as Trump imagines it.
212. Bonus Daily Cartoon: Giving Up for Lent - “Oh, it’s not ashes—just too many facepalms watching that speech last night.”
213. A Poet’s Contemporary Twist on the Bildungsroman - “Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.
214. Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 5th - “Wait, are we bidding? You can’t bid on something I already bought.”
215. Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk - In a Castro-length speech to Congress, the President claimed victory, while proving that even the most unhinged address can be boring if it goes on long enough.
216. What Putin Wants Now - Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But does Russia need to negotiate?
217. “This Life of Mine”: A Terminal Masterwork - The last film by Sophie Fillières, who died before completing it, is a bold reckoning with an artist’s self-awareness and personal freedom in the face of illness.
218. Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia - Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
220. Stay Tuned for These “S.N.L.” Bumpers - Mary Ellen Matthews has been shooting the show’s hosts and musical guests in variously compromising positions for a quarter of a century. Finally, you can admire her work for more than three seconds.
222. A Pakistani-American’s DOGE Nightmare - Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal government. The Trump Administration fired him.
223. The Show That Finds the Intrigue Lurking in the Everyday - “The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum.
224. David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance - As the frontman of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious.
225. Gene Hackman’s Dangerous Smile - The mystery surrounding the great actor’s death belies the solidity of his presence.
226. Return to Oz: A 2025 Oscars-Night Diary - The night involved a pair of split pants, a minor earthquake, and a major lovefest for “Anora.”
227. An Oscars Night Divided Against Itself - Even as the Academy increasingly recognizes independent productions, a blockbuster mentality still governs the almost unwatchable ceremony.
228. At the Oscars, “Anora” Keeps a Dream of American Cinema Alive - The ninety-seventh annual Academy Awards were buoyed by two plucky indies and a brave, history-making Palestinian-Israeli documentary.
229. Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 3rd - “I know the Oscars are rigged because I didn’t receive one for my feigned outrage.”
230. Will Harvard Bend or Break? - Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.
231. A Fired Yosemite Locksmith Messages Trump from the Summit of El Capitan - Nate Vince, a park staffer whose job was just terminated, unfurled a giant upside-down flag on the side of the rock dome.
232. How a Gizmo Used to Photograph Taco Ads Took Over the Red Carpet - Ready, set, Glambot! At the “SNL50” show, the high-speed camera snapped Maya Rudolph and Lady Gaga. Larry David and Tom Hanks? No chance.
233. How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration - Untangling the realities from the rhetoric on an issue that has transformed politics across the West.
234. The Classic Mystery That Prefigured the Los Angeles Wildfires - Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, most indelible of all, how it burns.
235. When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants - In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
236. “The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV),” by Bob Hicok - “My younger brother was afraid of thunder, / lightning.”
237. Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build? - Liberals have long emphasized protections over progress. Champions of the “abundance agenda” think it’s high time to speed things up.
238. Democrats in the Wilderness - Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Nancy Pelosi practice some self-care.
239. Should Aaron Judge Get a Chinstrap? - After the Yankees reversed their longtime beard ban, facial-hair experts, including ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons, weighed in.
241. The Musk-Trump War on Federal Employees Doesn’t Add Up - DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.
242. Join My Matreon! - I know what you’re thinking: Mom, why should I pay for all the great content I’ve been enjoying for free all these years?
243. A Crowning Moment for the New Orleans King Cake - During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.
244. Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” “Ends of the Earth,” “A Gorgeous Excitement,” and “Stone Yard Devotional.”
245. Menopause Is Having a Moment - If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes?
246. A Fan’s Notes on the Spectacle of Super Bowl Week - There’s the game itself, and then there are the parties and promotions, a glad-handing orgy for the sports-entertainment complex.
247. Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Benjamin Wallace-Wells’s recent Comment, Arthur Krystal’s review of “Everything Must Go,” and Alex Ross’s piece about Alma Mahler-Werfel.
248. “What Am I Afraid Of?,” by Sasha Debevec-McKenney - “The silence, the thoughts / that come with it.”
249. The New Yorker Film “I’m Not a Robot” Wins a 2025 Academy Award - The Oscar for Best Live Action Short went to Victoria Warmerdam’s darkly comic tale about a woman who fails a series of CAPTCHA tests.
250. “Five Bridges,” by Colm Tóibín - Being undocumented at a time when no one bothered much about illegal Irish people had almost suited him.
251. Geothermal Power Is a Climate Moon Shot Beneath Our Feet - The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into it?
252. Ian Frazier on George W. S. Trow’s “Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse” - The writer and his great subject—Ahmet Ertegun, the head of Atlantic Records—shared a deeply American restlessness.
253. Colm Tóibín on the Undocumented Irish and Writing in Real Time - The author discusses his story “Five Bridges.”
254. Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges” - The author reads his story from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine.
255. Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool - “It''s something that is at the top of the authoritarian playbook list,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “You know, go after the independent press.”
256. “Paradise” Is Manna for the Moment - The clanking didacticism of Dan Fogelman’s new Hulu series, which involves climate disaster, nuclear war, and the insurgency of the billionaire class in politics, is deeply satisfying.
257. Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1958.
258. Trump’s Disgrace - While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing.
259. The Imperialist Philosopher Who Demanded the Ukraine War - For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.
260. Roberta Flack’s Musical Transformations - Flack sang like she had been holding on to a secret that was waiting to become yours.
261. Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television - The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.
262. Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets? - The Minnesota governor, who was Kamala Harris’s running mate, on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024, and what they should do now that Donald Trump is back in the White House.
263. Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 28th - “What’s wrong? If I order it today, with one-day shipping, I’ll get it the day after the boycott!”
264. “Mickey 17” Is a Science-Fiction Adventure of Multiple Unwieldy Thrills - In Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, Robert Pattinson plays a space traveller facing a succession of death sentences.
265. A Ukrainian Family’s Three Years of War - Mykola Hryhoryan was on the front lines before being gravely injured. Now, with American support in question and the country’s troops depleted, he’s preparing for the possibility of going back.
266. 2025 Spring Culture Preview - What’s happening this season in music, theatre, art, dance, movies, and television.
267. The playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard Try to Go Home Again - Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.
268. What Will Democratic Resistance Look Like? - Amid the internal crisis of the Democratic Party, historical precedents can both inform and obscure our understanding of how the left might regroup.
269. Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered - It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.
271. Renewed “Dreams” at the Berlin Film Festival - Celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary amid controversy, the Berlinale presented a program that balanced well-known veterans and remarkable discoveries.
272. Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 27th - “I’d just like to know what in hell is happening, that’s all! I’d like to know what in hell is happening! Do you know what in hell is happening?”
274. Rodrigo Prieto’s Risky Directorial Début - An admired cinematographer wanted to lead his own production. The project he picked was nearly impossible.
275. “Severance,” the Gothic Double, and Our Increasingly Fractured Selves - The new season of the Apple TV show is the latest in a string of entertainments—including several Oscar nominees—that feature split personalities. Why is this nineteenth-century trope back in such force today?
277. Is America Destined for a Future Without Children? - “Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.
278. Michael Lewis on the Magic of One-Hit Wonders - The best-selling author discusses books by writers who didn’t publish much, and how they helped shape his career.
279. Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem “Colosseum.”
281. The Pope’s Role Has Changed in Our Time. But Has the Church? - A new account of the papacy’s recent history reveals the transformation of the office in the mass-media age.
282. How an L.G.B.T.Q. Hotline Became a Lifeline - Volunteers for Switchboard reflect on the conversations they make with callers, whether reaching out from the depths of a crisis or looking for connection and advice.
283. Nicholas Ray’s Hollywood Counterculture - The freethinking director, admired by French critics but at odds with U.S. studios, based one of his greatest films, “Bigger Than Life,” on an article in The New Yorker.
284. Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America - The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
285. The Peril Donald Trump Poses to Ukraine - Some analysts hoped that Trump might end the war; they are stunned that the U.S. has now “changed sides.”
286. The Hollow Core of Elon Musk’s Productivity Dogma - Silicon Valley has struggled to measure employees’ effectiveness. So how can Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency expect to fix the federal government?
287. Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 25th - “Look, I totally get it. But it’s been two days now—maybe it’s time to get out of the bath?”
288. A Writer Whose Novels Explored the Edges of Normalcy - Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for years, Janet Frame was drawn to the inner worlds of people conventionally treated as inside-less.
289. Growing Up U.S.A.I.D. - As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.
290. Should You Be Religious? - In “Believe,” the Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that science has strengthened, rather than weakened, the case for faith.
291. What Your Sweater Says About You - Gray Wool Sweater: You are in a TV commercial, struggling to play with your grandchild because of your rheumatoid arthritis.
292. Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 24th - “Elon Musk says I have to justify my job, then forward his e-mail to ten federal employees, or I’ll have bad luck.”
293. “Izzy Kasoff,” by Robert Pinsky - “Who was he, why was he the one assigned / To drive me from the house to the cemetery?”
294. Amelia Dimoldenberg Flirts with Celebrity on “Chicken Shop Date” - Amelia Dimoldenberg’s show has become one of YouTube’s more enduring hits by giving the celebrity interview a screwball spin.
295. Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!” - The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis.
296. Chasing Waterfalls in the Peach State - Mark Oleg Ozboyd, known to fans as Dr. Waterfall, makes the case that Georgia is just as spectacular for splashes as Pennsylvania—even if “we’ll never be Hawaii or Washington.”
297. The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Goes Metal - The group, which has long awarded playwrights with paper scrolls printed out at Kinko’s, is switching back to ornate metal plaques, after a discovery at John Steinbeck’s estate sale.
298. “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” Reviewed - Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.
300. The White House Is Gaslighting Americans About Donald Trump’s Tariffs - The Administration insists that its aggressive trade policies won’t hurt U.S. consumers, but data from Trump’s first term suggest otherwise.
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