Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 14th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Top Attractions at Anxietyland Amusement Park - Experience feeling totally disconnected from the people around you. (www.newyorker.com)

How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply? - Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only made matters worse. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Peace President” Gets Belligerent with Iran and the Pope - After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic’s ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz. (www.newyorker.com)

The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose - Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

“Clarion,” by Rae Armantrout - “There are people who don’t hear an internal monologue or private dialogue in their heads.” (www.newyorker.com)

Zara Larsson Gets Her Flowers - On the “Midnight Sun” tour, the Swedish artist makes a comeback that feels like a début. (www.newyorker.com)

What Wallace Shawn Did Before His “Moth Days” - When the two lead actresses in Shawn’s play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself. (www.newyorker.com)

Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training - The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters? (www.newyorker.com)

The Wild Mind of the Romanian Director Radu Jude - The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. (www.newyorker.com)

R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute” - The next generation. (www.newyorker.com)

When It Gets Warm . . . - I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing. (www.newyorker.com)

A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out - The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. (www.newyorker.com)

“Apocalypso,” by Dobby Gibson - “I couldn’t finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy’s, / Saturn slowly losing its rings.” (www.newyorker.com)

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? - New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later. (www.newyorker.com)

The Violence in Vermeer - It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens. (www.newyorker.com)

Sandy Liang Puts a Bow on It - The designer will add frills to anything—from Dr. Dre headphones to Gap hoodies. At the Frick’s “Ruffles & Ribbons” exhibit, she confronts the deeper meaning of decadence. (www.newyorker.com)

Ed Solomon’s Family Portrait - The screenwriter’s latest film, “The Christophers,” stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently put down her own paintbrush. (www.newyorker.com)

The Return of Family Detention - Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. (www.newyorker.com)

Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris - It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.” (www.newyorker.com)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Safe Passage,” “Cave Mountain,” “See You on the Other Side,” and “Almost Life.” (www.newyorker.com)

New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy - High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. (www.newyorker.com)

Noah Kahan Makes an Unlikely Home-Town Hero - In his new songs—and a new documentary—the Vermont singer-songwriter considers how the misery of fame can make you yearn for the place you meant to escape. (www.newyorker.com)

“A Private View,” by Douglas Stuart - “Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s worst mother. I wish you could find something else to write about.” (www.newyorker.com)

Elle Fanning Gets the Money Shot - The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” in which she stars as a single mom who turns to OnlyFans to make ends meet. (www.newyorker.com)

Douglas Stuart on the Push and Pull of an Old Life Versus a New One - The author discusses his story “A Private View.” (www.newyorker.com)

“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood - Sophy Romvari’s first feature brings keen observation and wondrous imagination to the quasi-autobiographical story of growing up with a brother in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)

Douglas Stuart Reads “A Private View” - The author reads his story from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)

Mad About the Mandolin - Returning to making music later in life. (www.newyorker.com)

Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA? - The Vice-President reportedly opposed the Iran War. Now he’s tasked with leading American negotiations to end it. (www.newyorker.com)

“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source - In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in extreme tunnel vision. (www.newyorker.com)

Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI - Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order - Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)

The Global Stakes of Hungary’s Pivotal Election - What the fate of Viktor Orbán, a pioneer of strongman politics and a darling of right-wing movements across the world, might mean for Europe, Russia, MAGA, and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)

A Grandmother’s Life in Photos - As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran - From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. (www.newyorker.com)

Zohran Mamdani, Perpetual Student of the City - The Mayor, along with some teen-agers from Bronx Science, takes stock of his first hundred days. (www.newyorker.com)

Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped - While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege. (www.newyorker.com)

The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly - If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like. (www.newyorker.com)

“Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays - Dan Levy’s first scripted series since “Schitt’s Creek” is another fish-out-of-water comedy—this one set in a very different milieu. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

So Sorry—I Was Just Reminded of My Own Mortality - I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now. (www.newyorker.com)

What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now - The finding of a California jury represents the opening legal salvo in a fight against one of the central anxieties of our time. (www.newyorker.com)

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again - But this time he means it. (www.newyorker.com)

Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case - Bondi’s tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in Donald Trump’s image was “a tragic success,” the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says. (www.newyorker.com)

A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum - Amy Hau discusses some books by Marilyn Chase, Karin Higa, and Edmund de Waal that have guided her work as a curator. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 8th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

A U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Is Here, but Trump’s Stone Age Mentality Endures - A temporary truce can’t erase the chaos of a war that the White House started and never fully understood. (www.newyorker.com)

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology - The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. (www.newyorker.com)

The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents - The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Drama” Is One Long Troll - Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. (www.newyorker.com)

What Would a Ground Invasion of Iran Look Like? - As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 7th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

What Trump’s Reorganization of the Forest Service Means for Rural America - Lots of room for lumber lobbyists, less for forest science. (www.newyorker.com)

The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy - As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods. (www.newyorker.com)

What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists - If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you. (www.newyorker.com)

What Will the Artemis II Moon Mission Teach Us? - Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)

“Theodore Roosevelt Taylor,” by Tyehimba Jess - “In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues.” (www.newyorker.com)

We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing - Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. (www.newyorker.com)

An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem - Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries. (www.newyorker.com)

In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen - Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions that shape the art. (www.newyorker.com)

Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? - Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. (www.newyorker.com)

Our Mom-and-Pop Data Center - Mornin’, tech brothers and sisters! Come take a walk on our information super country road. (www.newyorker.com)

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? - As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. (www.newyorker.com)

Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons” - Technology and the future. (www.newyorker.com)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man,” “True Color,” “Half His Age,” and “Under Water.” (www.newyorker.com)

“Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks,” by Morgan Parker - “Sometimes I text my friends I’m crying / and they reply lol.” (www.newyorker.com)

In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family - In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart. (www.newyorker.com)

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics - Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P. (www.newyorker.com)

Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free? - Two writers of different evangelical generations offer rival visions of marriage, motherhood, and ambition. (www.newyorker.com)

Geese, Cooked - As bird flu hits the Hamptons, Long Island’s fanciest beaches are becoming mass graves for felled fowl. (www.newyorker.com)

Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax - To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest—his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma. (www.newyorker.com)

Do the Circulation-Desk Shuffle - The New York Public Library’s new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine? (www.newyorker.com)

Getting Older with Clare Barron and Anne Kauffman - At Cherry Lane Theatre, the writer and the director of “You Got Older,” starring Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman, dish on mortality, romantic angst, and the rapper Pitbull. (www.newyorker.com)

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? - New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. (www.newyorker.com)

Restaurant Review: Kelang - Kelang, in Greenpoint, offers a modern, wide-ranging definition of culinary authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)

“Rate Your Happiness,” by Catherine Lacey - How natural it is to fail, to fail to decide, to remain in meaningless motion. (www.newyorker.com)

Catherine Lacey Reads “Rate Your Happiness” - The author reads her story from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)

Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview - The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s Offshore-Drilling Dream Is a Recipe for Poisoning the Oceans - Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends. (www.newyorker.com)

Catherine Lacey’s Escape from the Self - The author discusses her story “Rate Your Happiness.” (www.newyorker.com)

My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr. - I knew John F. Kennedy, Jr., not that well and not that long, but enough to have experienced the gravitational pull he exerted, like some great big moon. (www.newyorker.com)

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer - The artist bent the medium of photography to suit his creations. (www.newyorker.com)

This Easter, an American Pope Confronts an American War - Last week, when asked if he had a message about the war in Iran for President Trump, Leo XIV said, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.” (www.newyorker.com)

The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War - “The plan is not to have a plan,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)

The Strange (Partial) End to the (Partial) Government Shutdown - Democrats are claiming victory. But what did they really gain? (www.newyorker.com)

Who’s In, Who’s Out at the Department of War - Look who’s looksmaxxing. (www.newyorker.com)

How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine - Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is aiding Russia. (www.newyorker.com)

Pick Three: Spring Sports News - The New Yorker staff writer Louisa Thomas on the season’s biggest basketball stories. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Pam Bondi’s Legacy of Flattery and Destruction - No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department. Her successor could be even more dangerous. (www.newyorker.com)

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War - The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Christophers”: A Review of Steven Soderbergh’s New Drama - In Steven Soderbergh’s film, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are superbly matched as two skilled painters who find their way from slippery deception to common ground. (www.newyorker.com)

Is It Wrong to Write a Book With A.I.? - The nature of authorship isn’t as straightforward as it seems. (www.newyorker.com)

Searching for Iran’s Disappeared Prisoners - Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution. (www.newyorker.com)

New Directors, New Films - Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and more. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Drama” Has a Combustible Premise That It Struggles to Justify - In Kristoffer Borgli’s Boston romance, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya play a couple weathering more than their fair share of premarital jitters. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

The Woman Who Made the Machine That Made Zohran Mamdani - Tascha Van Auken helped turn the D.S.A. into an electoral force. What will she do inside City Hall? (www.newyorker.com)

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign - Explosive News’ A.I.-generated videos have been shared by Iranian-government accounts and co-opted by No Kings protesters. A spokesperson for the group says, “Let’s face it—if truth isn’t flashy, it’s kinda lonely.” (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It - The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan? (www.newyorker.com)

“Dog Day Afternoon” on Broadway, Reviewed - Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots. (www.newyorker.com)

Social-Media Advertisements vs. Reality: Postpartum-Clothes Edition - Many people are eager to warn you of the body horrors caused by pregnancy, but no one tells you what’s going to happen in the months (maybe years?!) after birth. (www.newyorker.com)

“DTF St. Louis” and the New Story of the Suburbs - Depictions of the suburbs have long been a mirror for the nation’s discontents. What do they reveal today? (www.newyorker.com)

The Long Odds of Undoing Birthright Citizenship - In arguments at the Supreme Court, a clear majority of the Justices seemed inclined to uphold the right. (www.newyorker.com)

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on the Liberations of the Seventies - The author of “The Nest” and “Lake Effect” discusses some books that shed light on the era’s changing moral standards. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 1st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

How the Guillotine Got Axed - In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it? (www.newyorker.com)

The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades - In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels like our own. (www.newyorker.com)

Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Night Face Up,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1967. (www.newyorker.com)

Savannah Guthrie’s Excruciating Story, on “Today” - The morning-show host recounted the disappearance of her mother, Nancy, and its aftermath in boldly religious terms, as millions of viewers watched. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 31st - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest - On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war. (www.newyorker.com)

How World Cup Players Are Navigating Trump’s Immigration Crackdown - The U.S. is co-hosting the tournament this summer, despite having banned tourist visas for some participating countries. (www.newyorker.com)

The New Museum Reopens with “New Humans: Memories of the Future” - After an eighty-two-million-dollar renovation, the museum has put on a sprawling show about the war between humanity and technology. We seem to be losing. (www.newyorker.com)

How to Be Deep in a Marketable Way - Post vague quotes about self-realization that are universal, but ultimately mean nothing. For instance, “Follow your own light,” with a picture of you holding an unlit match. (www.newyorker.com)

How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran - The Pakistani military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as it looks to wield more influence in the region. (www.newyorker.com)

Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era - Fans want to know whether the vocals on his new album, “Bully,” are truly his. But the question of what the “real” Kanye sounds like has never been simple. (www.newyorker.com)

The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer - How Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 30th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Great-Grandmothers,” by Sandra Lim - “One paid the rent with a row of her teeth.” (www.newyorker.com)

“Following Bashō’s Narrow Walk Into the Interior,” by Bob Holman - “White water-filled spheres / Floating in a rock garden / Ah! Whose dream is this?” (www.newyorker.com)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered—and Afloat - The city’s Blue Highways distribution program aims to decrease truck emissions and road congestion while delivering your Sephora package. Its solution? Boats. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s War Hits the Chaiwalas - Restrictions and attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have made fuel prices rocket. Just ask the roadside tea venders in New Delhi. (www.newyorker.com)

He Helped Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb - A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. (www.newyorker.com)

Stephanie Hsu Does the Time Warp - The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress returns to Broadway, playing the Susan Sarandon role in “Rocky Horror,” at Studio 54. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Meaning of Your Life,” Reviewed - In a new book, the conservative pundit Arthur C. Brooks offers tips to “young strivers” on maximizing their daily meaning quotient. (www.newyorker.com)

Kia Damon’s Audacious Florida Cooking - A young Black chef from Orlando conjures a distinctive image of her home state, beyond the loud luxury of Miami and the kitsch of the Keys. (www.newyorker.com)

The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel - In “Transcription,” a novel about memory and influence, an interview with an aging intellectual goes unrecorded. Or does it? (www.newyorker.com)

Reality-TV Deconstructor - The author of the book “Dream Facades,” about the architecture in reality-TV shows, gives a tour of notable New York locations—including Bethenny Frankel’s old apartment. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump, Iran, and the Shadow of Suez - As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of history’s most revealing strategic failures. (www.newyorker.com)

Who Struck It Rich in the Markets When Trump Postponed Bombing Iran? - A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. It’s far from clear that they’ll get one. (www.newyorker.com)

Lena Dunham on How She Became a Filmmaker - After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable. (www.newyorker.com)

At Beth El, a New Jersey Synagogue, a Deep Divide Over Israel - Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations. (www.newyorker.com)

The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male - At the Men of War Crucible, you bear crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too. (www.newyorker.com)

Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Parallel Lives” - Around and under construction. (www.newyorker.com)

If I Made Novelty T-Shirts - Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain. (www.newyorker.com)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - Short reviews of recent releases. (www.newyorker.com)

“Enough for Now,” by Cassandra Neyenesch - She flipped through the diary, looking for her name. Was she hoping not to find herself, or did a perverse part of her want to? (www.newyorker.com)

Cassandra Neyenesch Reads “Enough for Now” - The author reads her story from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)

Cassandra Neyenesch on the Provisional Relationships of Backpackers - The author discusses her story “Enough for Now.” (www.newyorker.com)

What Was Behind the T.S.A. Meltdown? - The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE. (www.newyorker.com)

How Arsenio Hall Dreamed Up His Life - The actor, comedian, and former talk-show host on his path from doing magic tricks and telling jokes to creating a TV show for the culture. (www.newyorker.com)

Torbjørn Rødland Touches the Romantic and the Profane - In a new exhibit, the Norwegian photographer finds divergent ways to break through and touch an audience numbed by visual glut. (www.newyorker.com)

The ICEBlock App Has Helped People Avoid Immigration Agents. Is It Legal? - ICEBlock was meant to be an early-warning system to help people avoid immigration enforcement—the Trump Administration claims that it endangered the agents of its mass deportation campaign. (www.newyorker.com)

My Childhood in the Weather Underground - My parents founded the radical revolutionary group, then became fugitives. I was born in hiding, and spent my early years on the run. (www.newyorker.com)

A Mamdani Strategist’s Advice for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms - How to talk about affordability. (www.newyorker.com)

In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality - Nadav Lapid’s furiously satirical drama, about a musician’s willful complicity in a war he reviles, tells a vast story of personal and national degradation. (www.newyorker.com)

John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling - The actor, who stars in the new Broadway production “Giant,” about Dahl’s fraught legacy, discusses whether we can separate the art from the artist. (www.newyorker.com)

A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice - Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

In “Kontinental ’25,” a Guilty Conscience Isn’t Enough - In Radu Jude’s blistering contemporary riff on Roberto Rossellini, a tragic death sends a bailiff spiralling into a futile campaign of self-flagellation. (www.newyorker.com)

Dear Pepper: Are You There Husband? It’s Me, Wife - Over the years, I’ve begun to feel like a piece of furniture. (www.newyorker.com)

Marie Antoinette-Era Fashion Plates, at the Frick - Also: Daniel Radcliffe stars in “Every Brilliant Thing,” Robert Plant sings roots folk in a cathedral, a soulful retrospective of Beuford Smith, and more. (www.newyorker.com)

The Unseen Work of One of Iran’s Greatest Filmmakers - For the director Mani Haghighi, his country’s rich cinematic tradition is a family affair. (www.newyorker.com)

“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” and Age of the Prestige Prank Show - The series, returning for a second season, is the latest example of a new breed—one that relies on elaborate, full-immersion experiments rather than on one-off stunts. (www.newyorker.com)

Can BTS Recapture the Magic? - The superstar K-pop group took an almost four-year hiatus. A few things have changed since they’ve been gone. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump Goes Postal - Following the letter of the law. (www.newyorker.com)

Donald Trump Is Breaking Up with Europe - And the war in Iran is helping him do it. (www.newyorker.com)

What Happens When a Whale Is Born? - Researchers happened on the birth of a sperm-whale calf—which, they found, is a complex family endeavor. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

The Trial of Anti-ICE Protesters Accused of Terrorism - The trial of supposed Antifa members after a shooting at an ICE facility is part of a disturbing strategy. (www.newyorker.com)

Operation Name That Excursion! - Operation Trump: The War, Operation Gulf War III, Operation Venezuela 2: Atomic Boogaloo, and other runners-up. (www.newyorker.com)

The Soft Power of BTS - The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the global cultural marketplace. (www.newyorker.com)

How the War Has Reshaped Life in Iran - As the conflict continues, civilians find themselves caught between foreign bombardment and a regime that is violently cracking down. (www.newyorker.com)

Louise Erdrich on Novels of Parentless Children - The “Round House” and “Python’s Kiss” author discusses a few books that examine the psychological terrain of growing up without parents. (www.newyorker.com)

Maya C. Popa Reads Brenda Shaughnessy - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Artless,” by Brenda Shaughnessy, and her own poem “The World Was All Before Them.” (www.newyorker.com)

How Donald Trump May Have Sabotaged His Chances for a Deal with Iran - The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Liza Minnelli’s Uncharacteristic Pivot to Self-Disclosure - In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage. (www.newyorker.com)

How the War in Iran Became a Race to Stabilize the Global Economic Order - The country is in survival mode, and effectively fighting back by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and blocking the transport of much of the world’s oil supply. (www.newyorker.com)

Why You Hate Your Weather App - As the weather becomes less predictable, we need forecasts that are better at telling us what we don’t know. (www.newyorker.com)

Michael Ian Black Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest - The actor and comedian tries his hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

CNN’s “Podcast Look” and the Slow Death of Cable News - The network’s experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media. (www.newyorker.com)

A Former Prisoner of the Iranian Regime Watches Trump’s War - A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind. (www.newyorker.com)

The Text of E-mails from My Accountant vs. the Subtext - Hi, your dad’s friend Bill here. Neither your father, nor I, knowing very little about you, have any confidence that you can be expected to handle filing your taxes by yourself. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 23rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

“Coots,” by Rosanna Warren - “Were they coots, those dark birds with flashy / white bills, swimming together in circles / on winter waves?” (www.newyorker.com)

“Midnight in the Pain-Relief Aisle of CVS Thinking About ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’,” by Donna Masini - “Pain ricochets around my skull / like an aspirin commercial from the sixties.” (www.newyorker.com)

Engels in the Outfield - A radical history of the Mets insists that baseball can still be the people’s game. (www.newyorker.com)

Is Cuba Next? - Trump’s campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime. (www.newyorker.com)

Between Sting and the Deep Blue Sea - The Police front man’s 2014 musical, “The Last Ship,” was inspired by his gritty working-class childhood in England. Now a revamped production—featuring Shaggy—is docking at the Metropolitan Opera. (www.newyorker.com)

The Last Generation - Life on a family farm. (www.newyorker.com)

A Bingo Card for Spring in New York City - Do you have “UPS Guy in Shorts,” “Stoop Weirdo,” or “Park Teeming with Hinge Dates”? (www.newyorker.com)

Roz Chast’s “City Beasts” - Where the wild things are. (www.newyorker.com)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “Kin,” “The Optimists,” “The Elusive Body,” and “Leaving Home.” (www.newyorker.com)

Under the Influence at the Whitney Biennial - How the artists in this year’s survey do or, more often, don’t acknowledge those who paved the way for them. (www.newyorker.com)

Steve Zahn’s Father-Daughter Dance - At a Broadway studio, the actor busts a move with his daughter, Audrey, who also happens to be his inspiration (and co-star) for his new film, “She Dances.” (www.newyorker.com)

The “Baritenor” Michael Spyres Soars in the Met’s New “Tristan und Isolde” - At the Met, Michael Spyres uses his broad vocal range to stunning effect, but Lise Davidsen loses power when she leaves her brilliant upper register. (www.newyorker.com)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Queuing up is the new normal, especially when it comes to the T.S.A. Fifty minutes, two hours, half a day—how much time is a flight (or a cronut or a ticket to a Harry Styles show) worth? (www.newyorker.com)

How Trump’s Iran War Could Torch the Global Economy - A conflict that was supposed to be brief has sent oil prices soaring and raised the risk of a worldwide recession. (www.newyorker.com)

The Return of Staten Island’s Secession Movement - For more than a hundred years, the city’s most isolated borough has threatened to leave. After the election of Zohran Mamdani, some on the island think it’s time. (www.newyorker.com)

Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails - To keep March Madness interesting, why not go with your mom’s alma mater? Or the college with a celebrity’s kid? (www.newyorker.com)

Does A.I. Need a Constitution? - Jill Lepore writes about “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” and A.I. constitutions, like that of Anthropic’s chatbot Claude. (www.newyorker.com)

Robyn, on Her Own - The pop star brings motherhood and middle age to the dance floor. (www.newyorker.com)

The Vegetalian Is New York’s Finest Sandwich - The best Italian combo in the city contains no meat whatsoever. (www.newyorker.com)

The Distant Promise of Iran’s Would-Be King - The U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is Reza Pahlavi’s best chance to resume his family’s reign in nearly fifty years—will it pass him by? (www.newyorker.com)

Souvankham Thammavongsa on Dating and the Clarity of Age - The author discusses her story “Floating.” (www.newyorker.com)

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really? - From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously blurry. (www.newyorker.com)

“Floating,” by Souvankham Thammavongsa - After he left, I said to my friend, “I like him. Is he single?” My friend said he’d never mentioned a partner. (www.newyorker.com)

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Floating” - The author reads her story from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)

The Style Is the Substance in Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs Documentary - The designer has experienced a fair amount of tumult in his life. But “Marc by Sofia” addresses none of this, instead stringing together an assortment of gauzy images. (www.newyorker.com)

Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents - Both of my parents were in hospice, on opposite coasts. Then I found out that I had breast cancer. (www.newyorker.com)

The First Casualty of Trump’s War in Iran Was the Truth - The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home. (www.newyorker.com)

China’s Shifting Relationship to the Countryside - Catherine Hyland’s images show what happened after the giant migration to the cities. (www.newyorker.com)

“Two Prosecutors,” “Palestine ’36,” and the Tribulations of Resistance in the Thirties - Historical dramas from the directors Sergei Loznitsa and Annemarie Jacir are built around courageous acts of opposition. (www.newyorker.com)

Why Israel Is Attacking Lebanon - Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict. (www.newyorker.com)

Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory - The comedian and writer on his new HBO special, “Color Theories,” which comes out on March 27th. (www.newyorker.com)

Ada Ferrer on America’s Imperial Adventures in Cuba - The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on the relationship between the two countries, and how Cubans might feel about an American intervention. (www.newyorker.com)

Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target? - The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson on the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba, Marco Rubio’s strategy, and what regime change could look like. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 20th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile - For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker. (www.newyorker.com)

Elaine Reichek’s Needlepoint Revolution - Also: Ro Reddick’s absurdist “Cold War Choir Practice,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of Marc Jacobs, Paige Williams on music for spiritual uplift, and more. (www.newyorker.com)

What the War Has Done to Iranians - A civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression—too terrorized to move, let alone start an uprising. (www.newyorker.com)

Poems Dictated to My Phone, Mostly While Waiting in My Car - My thirteen-year-old daughter needed a dress for a wedding, so we went to Aritzia in the Short Hills mall. (www.newyorker.com)

“DTF St. Louis” Peers Into the Suburban Male Psyche - Jason Bateman excels as the Everyman, reeking of ennui and buried impulses, in the new HBO comic whodunnit, also with David Harbour and Linda Cardellini. (www.newyorker.com)

The Right to a Bed in Zohran Mamdani’s New York - The closing of the Bellevue shelter marks the end of an era. But what comes next? (www.newyorker.com)

Why Can’t You Finish Anything? - The skills needed for wrapping up aren’t always what you expect. (www.newyorker.com)

Christian Petzold’s Ghost Stories - The German auteur made his name with a series of haunting psychological thrillers. His new film, “Miroirs No. 3,” was shaped by losses of his own. (www.newyorker.com)

An Elegy for the Kennedy Center - A Washington, D.C., native says goodbye to the arts complex before Trump’s wrecking crew goes to work on it. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 19th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

The Trad-est Wife - I decided I would give my children a traditional spin on Pop-Tarts. I started with the first step of any traditional recipe: screaming. (www.newyorker.com)

The Unravelling of Dubai as a Safe Haven - What drew many people to the city was not luxury but rather stability, and the feeling of remove from war. As Iran attacks the U.A.E., that sense of distance is eroding. (www.newyorker.com)

The Pentagon Wants an Obedient A.I. Soldier. Will It Get One? - The reported use of Claude in recent military operations has shifted the Overton window around A.I. in warfare—and sparked a battle between Anthropic and the Department of War. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 18th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight - “I’ll most likely be able to get there a little after 8!” Bring granola bars. You’ll eat your first bite of dinner at 9:17 P.M. (www.newyorker.com)

“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography - A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars. (www.newyorker.com)

The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil - What if the drone is to warfare as the solar panel is to energy? (www.newyorker.com)

Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste - In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 17th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Illinois Primary Map: Live Election Results - The state’s lieutenant governor and a cryptocurrency darling square off in the Democratic race to fill Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat; Republicans are picking a candidate to challenge Governor J. B. Pritzker. (www.newyorker.com)

How Should We Remember the Hippies? - They’ve often been a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they seemed to find something that we’ve lost. (www.newyorker.com)

Israel’s Gulf-State Gamble in the Iran War - Benjamin Netanyahu has predicted that the conflict could draw Israel closer to its Arab neighbors. That may be wishful thinking. (www.newyorker.com)

Why David Boies Thinks We Should Support Trump’s Iran War - The prominent lawyer says that Democrats should get behind the President, and make sure that he finishes the job. (www.newyorker.com)

Were the 2026 Oscars a Swan Song for Warner Bros.? - At the Academy Awards, The New Yorker’s correspondent saw a win-win night for the studio behind “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”—and a lose-lose situation for the industry. (www.newyorker.com)

As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On - Doom-laden humor at the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony obscures the courageous innovation of much of the work it celebrated. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 16th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

The 2026 Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance - With few exceptions, a ceremony that honored two of the most politically ferocious Hollywood action-thrillers in recent memory engaged only fitfully with politics. (www.newyorker.com)

How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night - His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred. (www.newyorker.com)

How Doodles Became the Dog du Jour - Poodle crossbreeds have grown overwhelmingly popular, sparking controversy in dog parks and kennel clubs alike. (www.newyorker.com)

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “On Morrison,” “Scale Boy,” “Sisters in Yellow,” and “White River Crossing.” (www.newyorker.com)

What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder? - A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Life You Want,” Reviewed - In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy. (www.newyorker.com)

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools - Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to. (www.newyorker.com)

“Réservoir,” by Tova Gannana - “This is the season of crushing elder box leaves with our feet.” (www.newyorker.com)

Junior LaBeija, Master of Ceremonies - As the ballroom legend makes their Broadway début in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” they reflect on accessorizing with raw chicken and dressing like Al Capone. (www.newyorker.com)

“Then,” by Jorie Graham - “Then the full / moon rose / & filled the / windows.” (www.newyorker.com)

How to Be Your Own Super - Doorknob troubles? No sweat—an Upper West Side handyman is helping the helpless, with a beginner’s class on how to fix your (many) apartment problems. (www.newyorker.com)

Wendy Red Star Gets Her Bag - The artist, whose new show centers on the history of trade beads, shops for a knockoff Louis Vuitton bag on Canal Street and ruminates on authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)

Doctor Mike’s Internet Medicine - Mikhail Varshavski, People’s “sexiest doctor,” has a medical degree—and millions of fans on YouTube, where he debunks R.F.K., Jr., interviews Kamala Harris, and analyzes “The Pitt.” Andrew Trunsky writes. (www.newyorker.com)

How Zac Posen Went from Making Ball Gowns to Remaking the Gap - The fashion designer was brought on as Gap Inc.’s creative director to help restore the company’s cultural relevance. Has the Gapaissance arrived? (www.newyorker.com)

Egon Schiele: “Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff,” Reviewed - At the Neue Galerie, a show suggests that the artist’s raw, contorted depictions of the body were influenced by a formative relationship with a doctor. (www.newyorker.com)

Who Bankrolled the American Revolution? - Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub. (www.newyorker.com)

Lisa Kudrow Is Back—Again - Twenty two years after the end of “Friends,” the actress returns with a new installment of “The Comeback.” (www.newyorker.com)

Maira Kalman’s “Amid It All” - The blooms burst forth. (www.newyorker.com)

Seeking a Second Passport - For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan. (www.newyorker.com)

The New Yorker’s “Two People Exchanging Saliva” Wins a 2026 Oscar - The dark satire, shot largely in a Paris department store, claimed the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, in a rare tie. (www.newyorker.com)

“My Balenciaga,” by Han Ong - It could have been an experiment by the master. An early draft. A failed caprice. (www.newyorker.com)

The New Faces of Christian Nationalism - Trump has hollowed out the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited churches from endorsing candidates. Mercy Culture, in Fort Worth, has sprung into action. (www.newyorker.com)

Han Ong on Nora Aunor and Authentication - The author discusses his story “My Balenciaga.” (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign - Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis. (www.newyorker.com)

Big-Screen Remakes - Fresh from Silicon Valley. (www.newyorker.com)

The Real Cost of a Meal at Noma - The “world’s best restaurant” has been rocked—again—by revelations of the chef René Redzepi’s abusive behavior. (www.newyorker.com)

Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga” - The author reads his story from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)

Anthropic and Donald Trump’s Dangerous Alignment Problem - The Trump Administration wants Claude to act like an obedient soldier. But, if you ask for a killer robot, the company argues, you might get more than you bargained for. (www.newyorker.com)

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank - The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way. (www.newyorker.com)

How White South Africans Are Reshaping the Mississippi Delta - As Donald Trump offers U.S. asylum to Afrikaners, thousands are already working in the country on agricultural visas. (www.newyorker.com)

What a Movie Set Looks Like When No One’s Performing - Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima, has photographed some of the biggest films of the last decade, capturing actors in between takes, sometimes at sensitive, stressful moments. (www.newyorker.com)

What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann? - An eyewitness recalls the fraught encounter between a precocious American college student and a titan of German literature. (www.newyorker.com)

Pete Hegseth’s Holy War - Christian nationalism was once a fringe ideology in America. The Secretary of War has ushered it into the heart of U.S. military force. (www.newyorker.com)

Sheltering in Jerusalem and Looking at the Iran War - Will Donald Trump sustain Benjamin Netanyahu’s preëmptive wars? (www.newyorker.com)

Can We Save Kids from Social Media? - The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children. (www.newyorker.com)

Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards - Zhao, a previous Oscar winner, for Best Director, discusses her acclaimed film with Michael Schulman. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 13th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

“Project Hail Mary” Movie: A Review of a Sci-Fi Comedy - In Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Ryan Gosling’s star power fuels an unlikely tale of far-flung friendship. (www.newyorker.com)

Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better? - Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health. (www.newyorker.com)

The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot - Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry. (www.newyorker.com)

“The Wild Party” Returns - Also: FKA twigs, “Mother Russia,” Caravaggio, and more. (www.newyorker.com)

Trump’s Inexcusable Unpreparedness for the Iranian Oil Crisis - In the President’s first term, Iran demonstrated what tactics it would use in a confrontation with the U.S. Yet the Administration seems to have no game plan. (www.newyorker.com)

The War Trump Doesn’t Want to Talk About - “We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.” (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 12th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist” - The case of Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen shot by an officer in Chicago, offers a rare window into the recent spate of D.H.S. shootings—and the smear campaigns that often follow. (www.newyorker.com)

The Limits of Iran’s Proxy Empire - The country spent decades cultivating the Axis of Resistance, but, as the war continues, the Houthis and other allied forces have plenty of reason to stay out of it. (www.newyorker.com)

“Love Story” and Why We Cling to the Kennedy Myth - The new series about the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette is little more than a look-book—but its popularity is proof of the Kennedys’ enduring allure. (www.newyorker.com)

Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures - Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is defiantly tender about an amoral one. (www.newyorker.com)

Clickbait, Decoded - “I Turned 10 Into 1,000,000 in One Week—Here’s How!” What it actually means: I very slowly added five zeroes and two commas. (www.newyorker.com)

The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled - As Secretary of Homeland Security, Noem enabled Donald Trump’s harshest immigration policies—and embodied the idea of “law enforcement as just a photo op,” Jonathan Blitzer says. (www.newyorker.com)

Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity - The prolific novelist—whose most famous character, the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is played by Nicole Kidman in a TV adaptation premièring in March—discusses a few of her perennial rereads. (www.newyorker.com)

How Putin Views Trump’s War in Iran - Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order. (www.newyorker.com)

How Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Destabilizing the Gulf - Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict. (www.newyorker.com)

War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb” - Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 11th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Puddle Jumper - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 10th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)