“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. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants? - A rarely invoked 1798 law, the Alien Enemies Act, may have set off a constitutional crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 19th - “Oh, and try to have everyone fill out one of these.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard - The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 18th - “I’m sorry, we did everything we could before Elon cut our funding.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 17th - “Is that your ‘thinking about dinner’ look, or your ‘lost in a wordless fog of horror’ look?” (www.newyorker.com)
Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” - The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques. (www.newyorker.com)
“Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin” - “In this life, if you do not know what you are looking for, // how can you find it?” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
24. バンクシー失踪事件 - ストリート・アーティストが2005年、"素晴らしい "アート作品をメトロポリタン美術館に忍び込ませた。その後、それは姿を消した。元警備部長は絵のありかを知っているのか？
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero - Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle for the Bros - Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back? (www.newyorker.com)
Updated Kennedy Center 2025 Schedule - Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more! (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright - “I held up the femur / of a grasshopper.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy” - The author reads her story from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Joyce Carol Oates on a New Jersey Adventure - The author discusses her story “The Frenzy.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington - What do the believers in “tech supremacy” plan to do with the federal government? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Promo Code ETTU25 - Sale, Caesar! (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 14th - A trusted adviser. (www.newyorker.com)
54. イギリスのヒット曲がやってくる：ブラック・バッグ』のケイト・ブランシェット、フェリックス・メンデルスゾーンの見落とされた妹、モーガン図書館、『レント』のジョナサン・ラーソンの知られざる歌、他。
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. (www.newyorker.com)
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge - Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from *DOGE*{: .small}? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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?” (www.newyorker.com)
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?” (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Jesmyn Ward Delights in Being Bewildered - The author of “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” discusses the rewards of reading laborious novels. (www.newyorker.com)
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins - How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 12th - “We’ll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are back in charge.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
Ruben Gallego Thinks Liberals Shouldn’t Panic - The new Arizona senator argues that Donald Trump’s agenda is largely popular but destined to fail. (www.newyorker.com)
Why John Mearsheimer Thinks Donald Trump Is Right on Ukraine - And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin. (www.newyorker.com)
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?” (www.newyorker.com)
Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security - A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 10th - “Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“One Vessel,” by Henri Cole - “I’ve had the time of my life, friends, / living quietly like a snail in a pocket.” (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “A Matter of Complexion,” “The Moral Circle,” “The Boyhood of Cain,” and “Theory & Practice.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Dexter Filkins’s piece about the military’s recent recruiting struggles. (www.newyorker.com)
92. 家を買うとき、私たちは何を買うのか？- 長い間アメリカの理想とされてきた持ち家は、ブラックコメディや中年の危機を描いた小説、そして意図せずしてディストピックなリアリティTVの題材となってきた。
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Trumpian Uncertainty Knock the Economy Into a Recession? - There is only so much policy chaos that households, businesses, and financial markets can take. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Masterpiece” - Delicious forms of innovation. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“Saint Hyacinth Basilica,” by Patrycja Humienik - “When devotion is self-betrayal, / the body knows.” (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Prayers for Everyday Life - Good God Almighty, Holy, and Merciful, how do you get these tear-off produce bags to open? (www.newyorker.com)
Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits - Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies” - The author reads her story from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Yiyun Li on Fiction with Little Space for Illusion - The author discusses her story “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies.” (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 7th - Looney taxes. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Americans Still Be Convinced That Principle Is Worth Fighting For? - The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine. (www.newyorker.com)
Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity - Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Cringe Diplomacy Comes to the Oval - Making the great ape great again. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
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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. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
In Times like These - I don’t think any other country has dog mayors or dog elected officials. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Giving Up for Lent - “Oh, it’s not ashes—just too many facepalms watching that speech last night.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 5th - “Wait, are we bidding? You can’t bid on something I already bought.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 4th - It’s called multitasking. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Oddly Specific Jellycats - Toys in the shape of allergies, regrets, conspiracies, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
The Show That Finds the Intrigue Lurking in the Everyday - “The Curious History of Your Home” delves into the origins of the humdrum. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Gene Hackman’s Dangerous Smile - The mystery surrounding the great actor’s death belies the solidity of his presence. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
An Oscars Night Divided Against Itself - Even as the Academy increasingly recognizes independent productions, a blockbuster mentality still governs the almost unwatchable ceremony. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 3rd - “I know the Oscars are rigged because I didn’t receive one for my feigned outrage.” (www.newyorker.com)
Will Harvard Bend or Break? - Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration - Untangling the realities from the rhetoric on an issue that has transformed politics across the West. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (XXIV),” by Bob Hicok - “My younger brother was afraid of thunder, / lightning.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Democrats in the Wilderness - Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Nancy Pelosi practice some self-care. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Christoph Niemann’s “Vitamin N.Y.C.” - Bright spots amid gloomy winter months. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
A Crowning Moment for the New Orleans King Cake - During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” “Ends of the Earth,” “A Gorgeous Excitement,” and “Stone Yard Devotional.” (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“What Am I Afraid Of?,” by Sasha Debevec-McKenney - “The silence, the thoughts / that come with it.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“Five Bridges,” by Colm Tóibín - Being undocumented at a time when no one bothered much about illegal Irish people had almost suited him. (www.newyorker.com)
173. 地熱発電は私たちの足元にある気候変動ムーンショットである - 地球の中心部は、全世界のエネルギー需要を満たすことができるほど高温である。しかし、科学者たちはそれを安全に利用できるのだろうか？
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Colm Tóibín on the Undocumented Irish and Writing in Real Time - The author discusses his story “Five Bridges.” (www.newyorker.com)
Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges” - The author reads his story from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Roberta Flack’s Musical Transformations - Flack sang like she had been holding on to a secret that was waiting to become yours. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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!” (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
2025 Spring Culture Preview - What’s happening this season in music, theatre, art, dance, movies, and television. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Aren’t We in the Streets? - On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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?” (www.newyorker.com)
The End of Seriousness - Our unfunny times are rife with laughter that seldom offers relief. (www.newyorker.com)
Rodrigo Prieto’s Risky Directorial Début - An admired cinematographer wanted to lead his own production. The project he picked was nearly impossible. (www.newyorker.com)
“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? (www.newyorker.com)
Cool Things I Was Doing When My Back Went Out - And just as I realized that, snap! (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Jericho Brown Reads Elizabeth Alexander - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem “Colosseum.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 26th - “Best I can do right now is warmer weather.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America - The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
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? (www.newyorker.com)
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?” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Should You Be Religious? - In “Believe,” the Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that science has strengthened, rather than weakened, the case for faith. (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Izzy Kasoff,” by Robert Pinsky - “Who was he, why was he the one assigned / To drive me from the house to the cemetery?” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!” - The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
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.” (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
“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. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of Children - Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? (www.newyorker.com)
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. (www.newyorker.com)
An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces - Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value. (www.newyorker.com)
Billionaire Merit Badges - “Union Busting,” “Court Stacking,” “Deregulating,” and more badges you can earn in our new oligarchy. (www.newyorker.com)
You Have Reached the U.S. Government - We are currently unable to answer your call, because everyone has been fired except Bob. If this is Melania, press 183 if you wish to accept the buyout. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Michael Schulman’s piece about Charlotte Zwerin, Ian Parker’s Profile of Norman Foster, and Gary Shteyngart’s article on capybaras. (www.newyorker.com)
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships - A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. (www.newyorker.com)
Judy Collins Turn, Turn, Turns to Poetry - The eighty-five-year-old folksinger, who is about to publish a book of poems, chats about her old friends (Leonard Cohen and Lily Tomlin) and her Persian cats (Tom Wolfe and Rachmaninoff). (www.newyorker.com)
The Adventures of a Ukrainian Intelligence Officer - Roman Chervinsky’s spycraft has been a decisive factor in Ukraine’s national defense. Why is he under house arrest in Kyiv? (www.newyorker.com)
Michael Cunningham on Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” - I don’t expect ever to fully understand my desire to hold on to those two doomed cowboys in the most literal way possible. (www.newyorker.com)
“To Sew a Freedom Suit,” by Danielle Legros Georges - “Note / Its dimensions on brown paper. Otherwise / In the green field of your imagining.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Gilded Age Never Ended - Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The World After Gaza,” “Cold Kitchen,” “Victorian Psycho,” and “Code Noir.” (www.newyorker.com)
The New Trump-Family Megaphone - Lara Trump, the President’s daughter-in-law, now has a prime-time show on Fox. Is this the latest spin of the revolving door between media and politics, or something else? (www.newyorker.com)
“Keuka Lake,” by Joseph O’Neill - Between the ages of eighteen and fifty-four, Nadia does not for a single moment not have an admirer or a boyfriend or a better half. Then her husband disappears forever. (www.newyorker.com)
The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan - The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. (www.newyorker.com)
Joseph O’Neill on When Things Don’t Add Up - The author discusses his story “Keuka Lake.” (www.newyorker.com)
Joseph O’Neill Reads “Keuka Lake” - The author reads his story from the March 3, 2025, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots - Two beloved pop-ups have opened brick-and-mortar spots on the Lower East Side, one from Sunny Lee, of Banchan by Sunny, the other from the team behind Ha’s Đặc Biệt. (www.newyorker.com)
What Stops Democracy from Backsliding? - “The earlier the intervention, the earlier the mobilization, the earlier the forthright exercise of countervailing power, the better the prospect of saving democracy,” the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond says. (www.newyorker.com)
The Chat Room Behind the Pelicot Rape Trial - For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited strangers to his house to rape her. At the trial, none of the explanations for these events quite fit—apart from an online platform called Coco. (www.newyorker.com)
The Rise of the Passive Spectator - The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was with our desire to gawk. (www.newyorker.com)
Texas’s Barbecue Schism - As the state becomes more urban, so does its barbecue. So why does a small-town family feud feel so important? (www.newyorker.com)
Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio - A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise. (www.newyorker.com)
What Could Happen if the U.S. Abandons Europe - Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO will reshape the domestic politics—and military posture—of some of America’s closest allies. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Brody Presents the 2025 Brody Awards - Oscar who? The film critic, a true believer in the art of cinema, picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: the Brodys. (www.newyorker.com)
John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong - The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 21st - “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to star in a series of increasingly bland spinoffs and TV shows that have significant viewership decline after the first episode.” (www.newyorker.com)
A Profoundly Empathetic Book on Homelessness in the Bay Area - Kevin Fagan’s new work moves beyond predictable policy critique to offer a powerful reminder of the moral side of the crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” - Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era. (www.newyorker.com)
“The White Lotus” Overstays Its Welcome - In the third season of Mike White’s HBO satire of the rich and terrible, a now familiar formula yields diminishing returns. (www.newyorker.com)
“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera - Also: the psychodramas of Father John Misty, a humble “Henry IV,” the return of the Flamenco Festival, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
M Is for Mortality: Lessons from Edward Gorey on His Hundredth Birthday - Gorey said, “I write about everyday life.” His work reminds us that death is a major fact of existence. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Putinization of America - It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way. (www.newyorker.com)
We’d Never Had a King Until This Week - Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history. (www.newyorker.com)
The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO - Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 20th - “So, in all the nation’s founding documents, there’s not one single mention of a safe word?” (www.newyorker.com)
The Theatrical Release of “Compensation” Is Cause for Celebration - Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 feature, a century-spanning vision of two deaf Black women in Chicago, is among the greatest independent films but has rarely been screened. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup - “For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says. (www.newyorker.com)
New York Isn’t What It Used to Be - The Village has lost something. You can’t even get a cup of coffee in the Village anymore unless you go into a building with a store that sells coffee. (www.newyorker.com)
261. "S.N.L. "の持続力S.N.L.マシーン - コメディの殿堂は、その有象無象でカウンターカルチャー的なルーツから長い道のりを歩んできた。50年経った今でも、この番組は必見なのだろうか？
The Staying Power of the “S.N.L.” Machine - The comedy institution has come a long way from its ragtag, countercultural roots. Fifty years on, is it still essential viewing? (www.newyorker.com)
Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women - The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times. (www.newyorker.com)
The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul - Alexander Karp, Palantir’s philosopher-C.E.O., thinks that a restored military-industrial complex can make our country great again. (www.newyorker.com)
Make South Africa Great Again? - How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction - The first time around, the President’s bad deeds galvanized people on social media. This time, they’re looking to “flush out their brains.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 19th - How to make a grand entrance. (www.newyorker.com)
Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here? - In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 18th - “We’ve replaced all our screens at home with relentless immersion in the here and now.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Duolingo Owl’s Last Will and Testament - Can you understand the phrases concerning my death? Excellent! You’re doing a great job! (www.newyorker.com)
A Fist-Fight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard - At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians. (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer and Rachel Aviv Win Polk Awards - The prizes recognize investigations into misconduct by the newly confirmed Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the family life of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro. (www.newyorker.com)
Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create - Elon Musk’s campaign to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will end up hurting the very people Donald Trump promised to safeguard. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 17th - “Take us to your despot.” (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch - The Honolulu-based franchise specializes in simple meals that stick to the ribs. (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Captured the Unique Beauty of Snowflakes - The microphotographic innovator Wilson Bentley believed that “every crystal was a masterpiece of design.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions” - Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic extravaganza, whose very originality was its undoing. (www.newyorker.com)
Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Pick Favorites from the Archive - The staff writer and the cartoonist share their picks from the archive—an essay by Joan Didion, and a caveman cartoon by George Booth—to celebrate The New Yorker’s centennial. (www.newyorker.com)
278. A.C.L.U.対トランプ2.0 - A.C.L.U.代表のアンソニー・ロメロは、米国は憲法の危機に瀕していると語る。「私たちはルビコン川にいる。ルビコンを越えたかどうかはまだわからない。"
The A.C.L.U. vs. Trump 2.0 - Anthony Romero, the head of the A.C.L.U., says that the United States is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.” (www.newyorker.com)
Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery - A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency. (www.newyorker.com)
Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings - On his third studio album, “Horror,” the genre-spanning musician deconstructs old fears and finds ways to survive new ones. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 14th - “Give it ten minutes before you hit her with the ick.” (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen A. Smith for President - If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade? (www.newyorker.com)
Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope - Also: Rachel Syme on shopping like it’s 1925, and a New Yorker anniversary quiz. (www.newyorker.com)
Come to My Presidents’ Day Party! - It’s always “hearts, Cupid, love” and never “analyzing history and the egregious mistakes upon which this Union was built.” (www.newyorker.com)
Papa Elon or Donald, Sr. - Which father knows best? (www.newyorker.com)
It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine - Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee. (www.newyorker.com)
The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law - His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional. (www.newyorker.com)
Bonus Daily Cartoon: Beastly Inflation - “Gaston can’t eat five dozen eggs every morning with these prices!” (www.newyorker.com)
Q. & A. with Peter Beinart: What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism? - Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 13th - “Let me assure you that as an unpaid ‘special factory employee’ Mr. Monster stands to personally gain nothing from this work.” (www.newyorker.com)
How Romantasy Seduces Its Readers - The literary genre has skyrocketed in popularity, with titles dominating best-seller lists and commanding billions of views on TikTok. What’s behind the allure? (www.newyorker.com)
What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities - The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste. (www.newyorker.com)
What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025? - “I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.” (www.newyorker.com)
My Most Compatible Matches According to Hinge - Viktoria & Harry, you are a perfect match. Viktoria, you put food in your mouth, chew it, and swallow. Harry also puts food in his mouth, chews it, and swallows. (www.newyorker.com)
Reëxamining Romantic Tropes with the Ripped Bodice - Leah Koch, a co-owner of the romance bookstore, describes how the genre has changed and what makes it special. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 12th - We stan. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency - Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot. (www.newyorker.com)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary - The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions. (www.newyorker.com)
Wife of Valor - Liana Finck illustrates a selection from the Old Testament, which she sang as a child. (www.newyorker.com)
“The Last of the Nightingales” Tells the Story of How Soundscapes Change After a Fire - Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows a soundscape ecologist who lost everything in a California wildfire. (www.newyorker.com)