03:23 Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations - The Board of Peace might be destined to fail, but it still threatens to undermine an international system in which the U.S. was once the linchpin. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 Can Starting from Scratch Save “Vanderpump Rules”? - After eleven seasons, the show was tired. In the reboot, none of the new characters are pretending to be something they’re not. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 The Quad God and American Reckoning at the Olympics - The skater Ilia Malinin, the snowboarder Chloe Kim, and the Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid are a few of the athletes who battled it out at the Winter Games. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Life in Pictures - Following his arrest last week, Andrew spent his first birthday as a commoner in circumstances as degraded as earlier celebrations had been grand. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 A Childhood in Jewish New Orleans - To assimilated German Jews in the South, the Holocaust was unimaginable. One solution was to shut it out. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 Conan O’Brien Is Ready for the Oscars - The comedian and television host talks about the decline of late night, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner, and why he loves when things go wrong onstage. (www.newyorker.com)
02-21 The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction - Dhruv Khullar on the latest research on GLP-1 drugs, which, though typically used to manage diabetes and obesity, are showing promise as groundbreaking treatments for addictions of all kinds. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 The E.P.A. Rescinds a Landmark Finding - But it’s not game over for future climate action—and understanding why allows for a more nuanced picture of where the fight actually stands now. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore - Jake Reiss only sells signed books, and mostly at publisher’s prices. It shouldn’t work, but it has. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 Mitski’s Spellbinding Intensity - Also: the actions and art work of Lotty Rosenfeld, mixed-martial-arts sparring in the play “The Monsters,” a cocktail adventure at Oddball, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 “Come to Brazil?” The Oscars Just Might - “I’m Still Here” and “The Secret Agent” have brought Brazil’s exuberant online fan culture to the Academy Awards. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 Raymond Depardon’s Documentary Confrontations with Power - A retrospective at Lincoln Center showcases the French filmmaker’s masterworks of social conflict and inner struggle. (www.newyorker.com)
02-20 Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants - How the Administration is overwhelming federal courts and getting away with third-country removals. (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 Zohran Mamdani, the Everywhere Mayor - On your phone, on the street, on Taxi TV—you''ve been seeing New York’s new leader wherever you turn, whether you want to or not. (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 The Truth of Toni Morrison - The writer looms large in the public imagination. But does the monument we’ve built of Morrison do justice to her work? (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 The Chaos of an ICE Detention - When Manuela’s husband texted her that he’d been apprehended on the street, her life in New York instantly capsized. (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance? - Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned. (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 Lauren Groff on Masters of Short Fiction - The award-winning writer discusses some of her favorite story collections and why they’ve stuck with her. (www.newyorker.com)
02-19 The Best Books of 2025 - The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 Reporting - The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, while Andy Kroll is recognized for a profile of the Trump official Russell Vought. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 When Sexual Exploitation Is Fundamental to Police Corruption - A new book provides a twist on the wrongful-conviction genre, showing how deep the rot can be when sexual violence is involved. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 How Nick Land Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsayer - Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible? (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep - Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 Remembering the Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman - In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 The Growing Rift Between Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. - What this shocking split might mean for the future of the Middle East. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? - What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit in—socially, emotionally, and physically? (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 Our Company’s New Team Support Space - Please see the employee-efficiency team if you would like to schedule an organizational-issue repair conversation, as those are best done in private and not in the team support space. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap - Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality - As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results have not been good. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 Presidents’ Days: From Obama to Trump - The official oral history of the Obama White House is a stark and extensive reminder of the values and the principles that are being trampled. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 The Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Peter Mandelson’s Final Disgrace - The Labour politician and strategist was a great survivor. Then came revelations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein during the financial crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 What the Royal Family’s Links to Slavery Mean in the Age of Epstein - Just as the former Prince Andrew will always be royal, so will the trafficking of African people. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master - An exhibition in New York celebrates the work Strausfeld made for a cinema in London over the course of more than thirty years—designs of graphic confidence that were clean, strong, and scornful of embellishment. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family - After fifty-one men were convicted, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 Restaurant Review: Bistrot Ha - At a new establishment, the chefs behind the hit Ha’s Snack Bar are pushing past the hype, with food that is no less thrilling. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 “Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X - The FX series, with its Wikipedia-page-like narrowness on the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, excises all that contemporary drama that makes the Kennedy story, one of a relationship to a greater culture, so compelling. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds - Arthur Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” provides a view into a world otherwise all but invisible to passersby. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 Losing Faith in Atheism - I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie - The search for the “Today” show host’s mother, nearing its second week, has transfixed the public in Arizona and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 “Crime 101” Movie Review - The English director Bart Layton’s new film reveals a shaky grasp of L.A. but a pleasingly deep knowledge of noir. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 Richard Brody Presents the 2026 Brody Awards - The New Yorker critics Richard Brody and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the year’s best offerings, and how films seem to be getting better these days. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 The Epstein Files Reveal What Trump Knew - A newly released F.B.I. report shows that Donald Trump contacted the police about Epstein’s crimes as early as 2006. The Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown discusses the revelations. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 Gifted and Talented in Mamdani’s New York - Four mayors in a row have inflamed the debate over gifted-and-talented programs. Why does G. & T. stir such strong emotions? (www.newyorker.com)
02-13 “If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - Donald Trump’s attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that’s held since 1798. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 A Terrifying Scam and the System That Made It Possible - Product-liability lawsuits can bring justice for people harmed by corporate failure. But a complicated, opaque process provides opportunities for con artists. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China - The machinations behind his recent military purge, and whether China sees an opportunity in Donald Trump’s aggression toward Europe. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Charli XCX Misses the Moment - The pop star’s new film parodies documentaries that sanitize their celebrity subjects—but her satire isn’t any more satisfying. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Is the Rat War Over? - In New York, a rat czar and new methods have brought down complaints. We may even be ready to appreciate the creatures. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Can Anthropic Control What It''s Building? - Inside the company behind Claude, researchers are trying to understand systems that may have already exceeded their grasp. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns - Bart Layton, whose new film stars Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo, discusses a few of his favorite novels that question the romance of the frontier. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Why You’re Considered Attractive - If you are deemed attractive while sitting on the toilet, call the police. You are being spied on by a pervert. It might be time to plaster over the peephole in your bathroom wall. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Why Do We Like Music? - People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran - As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 “The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq - The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The Movie That Shaped the Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino - Years before he led the Trump Administration’s immigration-enforcement effort in Minneapolis, Bovino saw the 1982 Jack Nicholson film “The Border.” (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 “McMindfulness” and the Fate of Spirituality Under Capitalism - Thich Nhat Hanh saw mindfulness as a way to understand the “interbeing” between all forms of life, but its social dimension has been largely forgotten. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post - What the closing of the Washington Post’s books section means for readers. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The Woman Behind Japan’s Rightward Shift - How Sanae Takaichi, the country’s first female Prime Minister, won big in last weekend’s election. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths - Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play a paper-doll Catherine and Heathcliff in an extravagantly superficial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites - His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either - Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emily Flake’s comic strip about Alice Harvey, David Owen’s article about dyslexia, Jennifer Wilson’s piece on prenups, and Louis Menand’s essay about the dictionary. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 The Landscape Artist Andy Goldsworthy Contemplates His Own Natural Decay - In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Listening to “The Joe Rogan Experience” - How a gift for shooting the shit turned into an online empire—and a political force. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 How the Influential Make Influential Friends - The behavioral scientist Jon Levy hosts dinners for the élite. The catch? No one can say what they do for a living. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 The Amazing Art Ventures of “Kavalier & Clay” - Jamian Juliano-Villani’s paintings hang in the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Her latest venue? An antifascist-superhero exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Richard Holmes on Tennyson and Poetry in an Age of Science - His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 “Playmakers,” Reviewed: The Race to Give Every Child a Toy - For most of history, parents couldn’t buy their kids dolls, action figures, or the like. Then playtime became big business. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 “Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths - In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion - A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else? (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Pierre Huyghe’s “Liminals,” Reviewed: A Monster at Halle am Berghain - In “Liminals,” a terrifying, overwhelming new installation, the artist erases the boundary between humans and the void. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? - GLP-1 drugs, which have helped some people curb drug and alcohol use, may unlock a pathway to moderation. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Fab 5 Freddy, Still Fly - The Brooklyn-born artist has worn many hats: MTV host, graffiti artist, hip-hop maven. At a Harlem hat emporium, he talks about his newest gig: writing a memoir. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries - Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 I Will Be Your Next President - You’re going to love my ability to nod and smile while people awkwardly thank me. White bread, straight ahead. That’ll be my slogan. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Bad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show - You could think of the set as a tribute to the power and capaciousness of American popular music—or as a pointed critique of it. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Restaurant Review: The Eighty-Six - A new restaurant from the team behind Corner Store offers exclusivity, and great steak to boot. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Valeria Luiselli Reads “Predictions and Presentiments” - The author reads her story from the February 16 & 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 “Predictions and Presentiments” - How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives? It was going to be only her and me from now on. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering? - Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be? (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 The Rise of the Anti-ICE Protest Song - For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Seydou Keïta Captured a Nation on the Cusp of Independence - At the Brooklyn Museum, the Malian photographer’s elaborately patterned studio portraits picture a society in flux. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement - The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right - A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs - Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness’s mounting toll. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 The Pope’s Man Arrives in New York - In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.? (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 Dan Bongino’s Podcast Homecoming - The short-lived No. 2 at the F.B.I. returns to the MAGA mediaverse he helped create. What’s changed? (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift - Also: the primordial silhouettes of Simone Fattal, the indie-folk soundscapes of Florist, Rachel McAdams in “Send Help,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 “My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical - Akinola Davies, Jr.,’s début feature, scripted by his older brother, Wale, follows two brothers and their father during Nigeria’s historic 1993 election. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 Donald Trump Already Knows the 2026 Election Is “Rigged” - The question is not if he will undermine confidence in the midterms but how. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 TV Review: “Riot Women,” Streaming on BritBox - Sally Wainwright’s irresistible new series follows a group of middle-aged women who start a band—and find an outlet for the kinds of female grievances that tend to go unsung. (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 The People Who Will Actually Make Universal Child Care Happen - Zohran Mamdani delivered a political victory—but making his plans a reality will require the help of a workforce that’s already struggling. (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 How to Break Up with Your Phone - He knows your rhythms, your insecurities, your REM cycle—your cycle. He’s made himself needed, and now you don’t exist without one another. (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 The “Melania” Documentary Offers an Intimate Look at Very Little - The circumstances of the movie’s production and release are revealing. The film itself is far less so. (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens - The counterculture icon discusses a few of the books that informed his new project, “Maintenance: Of Everything.” (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 Sundance Is a Feast of World Cinema - This year’s edition of the prime showcase for American independent filmmaking offered two instant classics, “Filipiñana” and “zi,” made in Asia. (www.newyorker.com)
02-05 How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post - The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 Animals Say Hello, but Do They Say Goodbye? - In recent years, researchers have challenged the idea that farewells are uniquely human. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 The Good Old Days of Sports Gambling - Recent memoirs by the retired bookie Art Manteris and the storied gambler Billy Walters provide a glimpse of an industry in its fledgling form—and a preview of the DraftKings era to come. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 Gay Figure Skaters Pave Their Own Way in “Icebreakers” - Marlo Poras and Jocelyn Glatzer’s short film explores the legacy of the Gay Games as an all-inclusive answer to the Olympics—and celebrates the queer ice dancers striving to redefine their sport. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 What Happens When the Snow Doesn’t Melt? - The icy buildups blocking crosswalks around New York have been dubbed sneckdowns. Some urbanists think they offer a vision of a less car-dependent city. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis? - A look at the agency’s astonishing record of defying court orders, and what the judiciary might do to respond. (www.newyorker.com)
02-04 A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other - A new series of photographs documents residents’ evolving resistance to the surge of ICE agents in their city. (www.newyorker.com)
02-03 Discovering Where Your Interests Lie - Your interest in baking is a lie, although your interest in baked goods remains very much true. (www.newyorker.com)
02-03 How Bad Bunny Saved the Grammys - At a ceremony that got things uncharacteristically right, the Puerto Rican superstar claimed the top prize and criticized Trump’s deployment of ICE. (www.newyorker.com)
02-03 Catherine O’Hara’s Unforgettable Delivery - The Canadian actress’s oddball utterances became lasting comedic earworms, among them her one-word scream in “Home Alone”: “Kevin!” (www.newyorker.com)
02-03 Movie Review: “Melania,” Directed by Brett Ratner - The First Lady’s lavish new documentary portrays world events as B-roll between wardrobe changes. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 Living in Tracy Chapman’s House - Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits, in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 For “Survivor” ’s Season 50, Superfans Flock to Fiji - Five hard-core diehards won a trip to watch the show filming. What challenges will be on once they arrive? (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece - Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic? (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News - Today, the name represents a story of profit and power unlike any other. But tracing the genealogy of Murdoch sleaze requires a long memory. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 How Trump Is Debasing the Dollar and Eroding U.S. Economic Dominance - The President’s coercive policies, including his latest threats against Greenland, are prompting some foreign investors to think twice about parking their money with Uncle Sam. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe - How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 Matthew Schaefer, Hockey’s Youngest (and Nicest) Big Shot - The eighteen-year-old Islander was last year’s No. 1 pick in the N.H.L. draft. On a recent day off, he shoots a commercial, chats with Tom Brady, and raves about babysitting. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 How Modern Terrorism Was Born - A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left. (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish - Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family? (www.newyorker.com)
02-02 Why Jackie Robinson Testified Against Paul Robeson - A new book presents the baseball legend’s testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee as a critical psychic injury in the annals of Black celebrity. (www.newyorker.com)
02-01 Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Gold Watch,” which was published in The New Yorker 1980. (www.newyorker.com)
02-01 Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game - California’s governor has been touted as the Democrats’ best shot in 2028. But first he’ll need to convince voters that he’s not just a slick establishment politician. (www.newyorker.com)
02-01 David Remnick on S. N. Behrman’s “The Days of Duveen” - In a wry Profile of the British-born art dealer Joseph Duveen, Behrman captures the workings of a canny commercial intelligence wreathed in connoisseurship and charm. (www.newyorker.com)
02-01 “This Is How It Happens,” by Molly Aitken - Everyone loves you here. Most days you are pretty sure of that. Everyone touches you all the time. (www.newyorker.com)
02-01 Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable - For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 Trump’s Profiteering Hits 4 Billion - In August, I reported that the President and his family had made 3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 ICE’s Assault on a Minnesota School District - Liam Ramos, whose photo became a symbol of Operation Metro Surge, is one of several students in Columbia Heights who are now in federal custody. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 From 9/11 to Minneapolis: How ICE Became a Paramilitary Force - “What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is really like the ‘Black Mirror’ version of how federal forces have been used in the past, where the federal agents are coming to do the violence, not protect against violence,” Garrett Graff says. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 Miami’s Haitian Community Braces for Deportations - The Trump Administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti puts hundreds of thousands at risk of returning to a country in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 Are Democrats Right to Cut an Immigration Deal with Trump? - Congress has justifiably been criticized for rolling over to the President. But how it actually uses its leverage involves genuinely difficult trade-offs. (www.newyorker.com)
01-31 The City of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump - The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis - As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act - Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies - Also: the dream-pop of Hatchie, Elevator Repair Service tackles “Ulysses,” the theatre-district pub Haswell Green, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com - Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on. (www.newyorker.com)
01-30 Operation Trump Rehab - After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 America!: Mamdani Goggles and Other Products to Maximize a Brief Surge in Idealism - Maternal Labubus and whimsically shaped surveillance drones available now. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 The Dry January Hangover - What began, in 2011, as part of a British woman’s half-marathon training has turned into a global phenomenon. Dr. Oz, and others, weigh in on whether the trend is actually useful. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 “Heated Rivalry,” “Pillion,” and the New Drama of the Closet - Two new releases—one about a secret, slow-burn romance, the other about a quietly kinky relationship—build on a long history of depictions of the love that dare not speak its name. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 What the Democrats Can Learn from MAGA - Republicans have built local networks that outlast campaigns. Can Democrats turn protest energy into lasting power? (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 How to Figure Out Your Life - Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have shaped his thinking about how to live a less harried, more enchanted life. (www.newyorker.com)
01-29 April Bernard Reads John Ashbery - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Worldly Country,” by John Ashbery, and her own poem “Beagle or Something." (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center - How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter - Traditional meteorologists speak in potentialities and probabilities. A new type of social-media influencer takes a different approach, exaggerating possibilities and fomenting hype in the lead-up to a big storm. (www.newyorker.com)
01-28 The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises” - Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 The Beckhams’ Very Public Family Meltdown - They put their births and marriages in the spotlight, selling tabloid photos and making Netflix documentaries. Would their estrangement be any different? (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Why Shouldn’t We Let Demons Do Homework? - Using a demon is not cheating. Cheating is pawning off somebody else’s work as your own. A demon is not “somebody.” A demon is a being of pure malice. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary - Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 TV Review: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Streaming on HBO - There’s a lot of grime and grunting, but the show is saved by its two endearing leads. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”? - After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICE - Long before the federal onslaught, a Twin Cities museum showed what it meant to find a home in America. (www.newyorker.com)
01-27 Alex Honnold and Netflix Team Up for a Corporatized “Free Solo” - In “Skyscraper Live,” the climber once again put his life on the line, but it was mainly the viewers who were on edge. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Maybe the United States Can Be One of Mark Carney’s “Middle Powers” - The Canadian Prime Minister offers the possibility of a calmer future. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight - A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting - Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Run-DMC’s School of Thought - Darryl (DMC) McDaniels dropped in on his old Queens elementary school to talk music with second graders, who weren’t too sure who he was. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 “Ragtime” Cases the Landmark It Almost Blew Up - The cast of the musical, now at Lincoln Center, visits the Morgan Library to check out all the treasures that would have been lost if the plot had gone another way. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Diagnosis: Wellness Guru - Infection can occur while browsing lymphatic rompers on Goop. Left untreated, you may end up making your own laundry detergent. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Morton Feldman’s Music of Stillness - In his centenary year, the increasingly revered composer offers an uneasy refuge from the algorithmic din. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 How to Woo with Words Alone - Not everyone can be Shakespeare. That’s why a photo-free dating app is holding a workshop for users to polish their love language. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Nancy Kerrigan Persisted - The Olympic figure skater and all-American girl has overcome a lot, besides Tonya Harding. But, at a holiday ice show on Long Island, she still sparkles. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 “Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? - David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards the attention it demands. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning? - After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Easter Island and the Allure of “Lost Civilizations” - Why Western writers have shrouded the history of Rapa Nui in myth and mystery. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis - Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power. (www.newyorker.com)
01-26 The Battle for Minneapolis - As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another. (www.newyorker.com)
01-25 “The Quiet House,” by Tessa Hadley - What was the point of keeping all those secrets? Wasn’t your story wasted if nobody knew it? (www.newyorker.com)
01-25 Gus Kenworthy Lived an Olympic Version of “Heated Rivalry” - Ahead of a comeback in Milan, the Olympic freestyle skier and actor discusses alley-oops, auditions, and coming out of the closet as a professional athlete. (www.newyorker.com)
01-25 Trump’s Greenland Fiasco - The President caused a crisis in NATO and deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago. (www.newyorker.com)
01-25 Restaurant Review: Wild Cherry - Inside a playhouse now owned by A24, a new restaurant offers frogs’ legs, a killer cheeseburger, and a heavy dose of haute-theatrical glamour. (www.newyorker.com)
01-25 Emily Nussbaum on Jane Kramer’s “Founding Cadre” - Her startling 1970 article, based on months of reporting on radical feminist pioneers, was an outlier for the period—coolly observational but full of emotion. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 Tucker Carlson’s Nationalist Crusade - The pundit’s contrarianism has swerved into openly racist and antisemitic tropes. What does his rise mean for the future of MAGA media? (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 William Eggleston’s Lonely South - In his show “The Last Dyes,” the photographer presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 The Cruelty and Theatre of the Trump Press Conference - During the President’s second term, he and his staff have made the media briefing his signature rhetorical form. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 The Country That Made Its Own Canon - When Sweden named its national treasures, the list was condemned as blinkered and dated. But it was also a chance to see the country anew. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 How Donald Trump Brought Us to a “Rupture in the World Order” - The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt to discuss where President Trump’s turbulent week on the world stage leaves U.S. relations with Europe. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 How Bari Weiss Is Changing CBS News - The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone discusses her reporting on the new head of the news network, who made her name as a crusader against “woke” thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
01-24 How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA - Jason Zengerle, who wrote “Hated by All the Right People,” describes how an inside-the-Beltway journalist brought far-right extremism to the mainstream of American politics. (www.newyorker.com)
01-23 National Security Begins Behind the Toaster - I’m not saying that the apartment’s a hotbed of narcotic activity, but does anybody need that many plastic baggies for sandwiches? (www.newyorker.com)
01-23 Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall - Also: the many disciplines of Sudan Archives, a Max Ophüls retrospective, the facets of upstate cults, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
01-23 Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” - Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination. (www.newyorker.com)
01-23 It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea - How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it? (www.newyorker.com)
01-23 The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked - It’s a pleasant surprise to find some of the year’s best movies enthusiastically acknowledged by the Academy, but plenty of greatness has been left by the wayside. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 Two New Yorker Films Receive 2026 Oscar Nominations - The dark comedy “Two People Exchanging Saliva” and the dreamy animation “Retirement Plan” will vie in short-film categories at the ceremony in March. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 TV Review: Ryan Murphy’s “The Beauty,” on FX and Hulu on Disney - Ryan Murphy attempts to comment on incels, celebrity culture, and the age of Ozempic in a new FX series about a drug that makes its users young and gorgeous—at a terrible price. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 A Massacre in Mashhad - Under the cover of an internet blackout, Iranian security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. Only now are details of the carnage starting to emerge. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 I Need a Critic: One-Hundredth-Episode Edition - The hosts of Critics at Large offer advice on crafting the perfect road-trip playlist, reading in a second language, and how to choose a baby name. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 Of Course You Can Bring Your Husband Along - Seriously, it’s electrifying how many third rails exist whenever he’s around, such as politics, or any subject that doesn’t revolve around him. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 Should Progressive Organizers Lean More on the Church? - The anti-ICE protests—concentrated in Minneapolis—echo the mass mobilizations of 2020, and raise questions about what institutions and alliances make political dissent sustainable. (www.newyorker.com)
01-22 A Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth - In Madeline Cash’s “Lost Lambs,” the distinction between responsible adult and dependent child has frayed. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas - A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 Bringing Zohran Mamdani to the Big Screen - In 2023, Julia Bacha began filming a backbench state assemblyman. Little did she know that she was making a documentary about the next mayor of New York City. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch - The ephemeral nature of contemporary music consumption has made it much harder to elevate an album—even a very good one—into the category of an event. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West” - In Stephen Michael Simon’s documentary, Lala Abaddon leaves New York City and finds peace and creativity in her new hardscrabble desert home. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s Greenland Imperalism - The President’s obsession with acquiring the Danish territory has put the transatlantic alliance at risk. (www.newyorker.com)
01-21 Can American Churches Lead a Protest Movement Under Trump? - The Sanctuary Movement was led by clergy, and many religious leaders are activists today. But, as congregations have shrunk, dissent has diminished. (www.newyorker.com)
01-20 An Unhappy Anniversary: Trump’s Year in Office - The toll of a destructive twelve months—and what can be done to repair the damage. (www.newyorker.com)
01-20 The Overlooked Deaths of the Attack on Venezuela - To many on the ground, civilian fatalities were simply the cost of ousting Nicolás Maduro. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Faulty Gas Valve? Call the Famous Stove Lady! - Carlita Belgrove is the go-to stove whisperer, restoring the appliances of N.Y.C. élites and Hollywood actors. On a trip to the Hamptons, can she save her client’s Magic Chef? (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News - The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 From Selma to Minneapolis - On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills - Early in his life, Sanders left the streets of Brooklyn for the woodlands of Vermont. What did the man bring to the state—and what did the state bring to the man? (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 For This Palisades Toymaker, Fire Safety Is No Game - Jeremy Padawer, whose company owns Squishmallows, is one of thousands devastated by last year’s fire. At a rally for the anniversary, he’s more passionate than ever about reform. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Ask Xander & Mariluisa - Relationship advice from the internet: on Friday Afternoon Sex Clubs, adoption, and synchronized waterskiing. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 Mark Strong, on the Clock - On a break from playing Oedipus in the new Broadway production, the British actor stops by Federal Hall to chat politics, family dynamics, and being mistaken for Stanley Tucci. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees - LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” Reviewed - At the Met, the Finnish artist’s spare, melancholic work has the strange effect of jolting your senses. (www.newyorker.com)
01-19 How to Kill a Fish - The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies - The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt’s Obama “Fist Bump” Cover - Here’s one big risk a public satirist of racism takes: by displaying tropes and crude imagery, he reveals just how well he knows and can deploy them himself. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers - A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting - In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides. (www.newyorker.com)
01-18 Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act? - An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities. (www.newyorker.com)
01-17 Bob Weir’s Feral Radiance - The Grateful Dead guitarist had the nature of a well-meaning cowboy, and a lasting capacity to access wonder and deep engagement. (www.newyorker.com)
01-17 Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis - During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically. (www.newyorker.com)
01-17 Erich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back - A new restoration of Stroheim’s unfinished 1929 drama “Queen Kelly” spotlights his reckless directorial career, which, though brief, is one of the greatest of all. (www.newyorker.com)
01-17 Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” - In this gory sequel to Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” an undead threat that has ravaged Britain turns out to be no match for the reality of living human evil. (www.newyorker.com)
01-17 With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics - A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent. (www.newyorker.com)