What is included in an adversarial assessment?
Organisations today face increasingly complex cyber threats that target not only systems but also employees, operational processes, and incident response capabilities. An adversarial assessment is designed to evaluate how effectively…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, September 16th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Play Laugh Lines No. 37: Desert Islands
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”
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A Campus Mourns Charlie Kirk
Reagan Hurly, the president of Texas A. & M.’s political-science club, was at his apartment in College Station, Texas, when he heard that Charlie Kirk had been killed while speaking on a…
The Ritual of Civic Apology
I was standing onstage at the University of Puget Sound, preparing to give a talk about anti-Chinese violence in the American West, when a man I’d never met stepped up…
Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left?
In the hours immediately after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in front of a large crowd of students at a Utah university on Wednesday, there was…
Why We’re All In on Gambling
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. This past week, it was announced that Polymarket—a site…
Mark Hamill’s All-Time Favorite Books by Stephen King
In the past year, the actor Mark Hamill—best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” trilogy—has starred in not one but two adaptations of works by Stephen…
Being Sigmund Freud’s Great-Granddaughter | The New Yorker
The power of the talking cure. The podcaster and fashion designer Bella Freud, a great-granddaughter of Sigmund—and daughter of Lucian—has had a lot to unpack. Plus: Bella Freud. Photograph by…
Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye
How did this happen? To begin with, Shore had an uncommonly encouraging and generous family. His uncle Leo, a naval engineer, noticed that his nephew was a budding tinkerer and…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 8th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Consider the Quarterback | The New Yorker
Jalen Hurts, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, is a Super Bowl champion, the reigning Super Bowl M.V.P. He has played in two of the past three Super Bowls; in his first…
Bryan Washington Reads “Voyagers!” | The New Yorker
Bryan Washington reads his story “Voyagers!,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among…
The Mystery of the Cat Mystery
Mid-pandemic, I was speaking with a semi-stranger at a playground where our children were playing semi-together. Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to…
Donald Trump, Architecture Critic | The New Yorker
News of Donald Trump’s recent executive order concerning architecture, and particularly about preserving and protecting hallowed traditional styles, will have come as a surprise to anyone who recalls that one…
Anna Wintour Doesn’t Look Back
“Nobody at Vogue moves at a glacial pace.” Anna Wintour speaks with David Remnick about how the magazine she’s helmed for decades is about to change. Plus: Illustration by Diego…
The Ministry of Joyce McDonald’s Sculptures
Terence Davies, who died in 2023, at the age of seventy-seven, is the most original modern British director. He was in his forties when he made his first feature, “Distant…
What to Do About COVID Now
COVID continues to mutate, and a new strain is causing spikes in cases across the country. A conversation with the physician and New Yorker contributor Dhruv Khullar about how we…
Ranking Things from Quiet Luxury to Loud Luxury
A Loro Piana sweater. Wearing a Loro Piana sweater on a yacht. Wearing a Loro Piana sweater on a yacht that’s strategically anchored in international waters so as to avoid…
Red, White, and Bruised | The New Yorker
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Is Ghosting Inevitable? | The New Yorker
Any new technology created for the purpose of human connection also creates an opportunity for novel forms of missed connection: the envelope returned to sender, the unanswered phone call, the…
The Crossword: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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The Crossword: Monday, September 1, 2025
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 1st
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Restaurant Review: Lex Yard at the Waldorf-Astoria
Waldorf has brought in Michael Anthony, the longtime executive chef of Gramercy Tavern (where he remains), to create the menu. A hotel restaurant—especially a high-end one, especially a high-end one…
How Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s Anti-Vax Agenda Is Infecting America
For months, President Donald Trump’s Administration has launched a full-scale attack, led by his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on America’s public-health system. In the…
What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department
Ghislaine Maxwell first met Jeffrey Epstein for tea in his Madison Avenue office. What she remembers most vividly about the encounter, Maxwell told the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, in…
The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically speaking, this is impossible. But taking in his…
The Long History of Life on Mars
For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer (and uncle of the fashion icon Elsa), started…
The Sycophancy for Donald Trump Must Be Televised
When Donald Trump began to speak on Tuesday, during what would become the longest televised Cabinet meeting ever, he did not exactly advertise his plans to make history. There was…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, August 28, 2025
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There Will Be a Next School Shooting
This morning, a gunman opened fire into a Catholic church in Minneapolis. Two children are dead. How did we get here? And then: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sits on steps…
The Crossword: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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The Crossword: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons September 1 & 8, 2025
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The Creator of “Subway Takes” One Hundred Per Cent Disagrees
“Subway Takes” is the TikTok version of the “Tonight Show”: wholesome, relatable comedy, even if some episodes do acknowledge the existence of opioids and dick pics. The premise is exactly…
Restaurant Review: Santo Taco | The New Yorker
Santo Taco, one of the newest of the newcomers, opened this spring, in a sliver-slim SoHo space that previously housed La Esquina’s taqueria, whose primary function was as a street-facing…
What’s Life Like in Washington, D.C., During Trump’s Takeover?
On Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., the weird juxtapositions of life in this city, eleven days into the Trump Administration’s unprecedented takeover of the District’s local law enforcement, were on…
The Vibrant, Disappearing World of India’s Photo Studios
The Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori appeared to Ketaki Sheth as a kind of apparition. A photographer from Mumbai, Sheth owns a home in the coastal village, about a sixty-kilometre…
The Unsurprising F.B.I. Investigation into John Bolton
“There is a certain awful predictability” to the F.B.I. search of former national-security adviser John Bolton’s home. Plus: Photograph by Pedro Ugarte / AFP / Getty The Retribution Phase of…
The Mini Crossword: Friday, August 22, 2025
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Will the MAHA Moms Turn on Trump?
Earlier this month, the wellness entrepreneur Calley Means delivered opening remarks at a symposium called “The Future of Farming: Exploring a Pro-Health, Pro-Farmer Agenda,” held in Washington, D.C., at the…
When Your Parents Aren’t Your Parents
Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.…
IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu
On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that has become the biggest international toy fad since Beanie Babies in…
There’s No Easy End to the War in Ukraine
It wasn’t a “worst-case scenario,” Joshua Yaffa says of yesterday’s White House meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. But negotiations to end the war remain mired in misunderstandings. Plus:…
The Crossword: Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Does the Attorney General Represent the People or the President?
It’s what Donald Trump always wanted: an Attorney General willing to harness the law in service of his agenda. Is Pam Bondi just getting started? Plus: • Wall Street needs…
Play Laugh Lines No. 33: On the Phone
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
“Something Has Come to Light,” by Miriam Toews
I trust I’ll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me. Just yesterday afternoon Cor asked me if…
The Hyped Revival of Mixed Doubles
Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who his favorite players were. “Well,…
The Fiery Mania of Dijon’s “Baby”
Dijon Duenas has one of those voices that’s meant for televised singing competitions and gospel choirs, swooning ballads and achy slow jams. It preens and jilts, wails and whimpers, often…
Always Inadequate | The New Yorker
In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard in northern New Mexico, some miles from the glorious Rio…
A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Mohammed…
The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English Getaway
For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. If one lesson has emerged this travel season, it’s that you really, really don’t want…
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Petition to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has been busy during its summer break, issuing decisions on emergency petitions that have enabled President Donald Trump to gut the Department of Education, deport people to…
“An Open Heart,” by Jamil Jan Kochai
This is the seventh story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. They cut open my father’s chest…
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early 2023, it occurred to him that one of the central preoccupations of…
The Revenge of Millennial Cringe
In the summer of 2009, a shambolic Los Angeles band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a single titled “Home.” A romantic duet between the group’s founder and…
The Great Migraine Mystery | The New Yorker
Chronic headaches are an unnerving and often debilitating condition experienced by more than a billion people worldwide. Why do we know so little about them? Jerome Groopman explores the lingering…
Can President Trump Run a Mile?
Not to be fussy about it, but the Presidential Fitness Test, which Donald Trump plans to reinstate in schools, could use some shaping up of its own. The name promises…
Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air
That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that surprising; that he did so in actuality and not just…
How Zohran Mamdani Became the Main Character of New York City
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. On paper, a thirty-three-year-old socialist would seem an unlikely…
Can the Courts Stop Trump’s Tariffs?
“They want the madness to stop.” The court case challenging Trump’s tariff chaos. Plus: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Donald Trump in February. Photograph by Andrew Harnik / Getty…
The Latest Phase in Trump’s War on Data
Donald Trump had many priorities upon returning to the Presidency, and one of the most pressing was to get Winston Churchill back into the Oval Office. A bust of Britain’s…
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
In July sixty-three people, including more than twenty children, died of starvation in the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. More have been dying this week. Israel is now…
King Princess’s Homecoming | The New Yorker
After the Civil War, the German-born Jewish businessman Isidor Straus moved with his family to New York City. Straus was enterprising and handsome, with small round spectacles, an angular nose,…
How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It
At the Abundance conference, Diamandis’s audience seemed receptive to his reminders that “the two biggest wealth-creation opportunities are A.I. and longevity.” Part of his appeal is his insistence that extending…
Kiran Desai Reads “An Unashamed Proposal”
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“An Unashamed Proposal,” by Kiran Desai
Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same…
The Crossword: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype
There’s a certain face that only Sterling K. Brown can make. It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep…
Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies
Georg Riekeles knows about hardball trade negotiations: during the long and arduous talks about the terms on which Britain would leave the European Union, he was an adviser to Michel…
The Mini Crossword: Friday, August 1, 2025
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On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel
On Monday, during a visit to one of his two Trump-branded golf courses in Scotland, Donald Trump sat alongside the U.K. Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and stated a fact that…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, July 31, 2025
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The Enduring Power of “The Rules of the Game”
Even if Mozart’s name and a quote from Beaumarchais’s play “The Marriage of Figaro” didn’t feature in the credits of “The Rules of the Game,” this 1939 film by Jean…
The Crossword: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Americans Are Fixing Their Teeth in Mexico
“Nothing is more memorable, for better or worse, than a trip to the dentist.” Los Algodones, Mexico—known as Molar City—attracts scores of Americans from across the border seeking cheaper dental…
Worlds in Rooms | The New Yorker
I think that sometimes, when we look at art, we’re hoping to recapture a piece of our past—a golden time when we had a deep and unforgettable experience with a…
Play Laugh Lines No. 30: Fashion, Part 3
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Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”
To call something “middlebrow” seems to dismiss it as unserious, but, when America was arguably at its intellectual peak, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, this was the territory in which…
What to Do When the Supreme Court Is Wrong
In February, 1983, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia faced a dilemma. After years of looking, they believed that they had found the ideal plaintiff to challenge…
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable’s Evan Osnos interviews Katie Drummond,…
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Nowadays, a secondhand, first-edition copy can sell for hundreds of dollars; in August, the book will be reissued by D.A.P. as “Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” in an expanded,…
The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World
It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job back. Until the previous fall,…
Audiobooks to Save Your Road Trip
—Leo Lasdun, editorial production associate “Brideshead Revisited,” by Evelyn Waugh, narrated by Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons puts his “Lion King” voice-actor skills to impressive use in the audiobook version of…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, July 24, 2025
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We’re Living in an Age of Floods
Climate change has made the most dangerous floods more frequent, and we are simply not prepared to handle what’s to come, John Seabrook reports. Plus: On July 4th, the floodwaters…
Watch It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam | Daily Shouts
[upbeat music] Hi, I am here for my exam. Hi, I’m Dr. Black, have a seat. What seems to be the problem? Oh, no problem, just a routine eye exam.…
The Man Behind Trump’s Tariffs Strategy
“I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has forged a tight relationship with the President, and put himself at the center…
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
In January, 1861, Louisa May Alcott began writing a novel that she planned to call “Success.” Alcott was twenty-eight and living at Orchard House, the family home in Concord, Massachusetts.…
A New Way to Think About Schizophrenia
What if some psychiatric disorders are actually treatable autoimmune conditions? Introducing Rachel Aviv’s report on one woman’s stunning recovery from psychosis. Plus: • Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” told the truth•…
The Crossword: Monday, July 21, 2025
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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”
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“The Chartreuse,” by Mona Awad
She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering.
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway
I have a recurring dream about my father and me, one of the few welcome dreams I have about him. We’re both in our late thirties, though he’s fitter than…
Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza
Five months ago, when I was on a medical mission in northern Gaza, a Palestinian cardiologist named Marwan Sultan showed me what was left of the Indonesian Hospital, a hundred-bed…
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson
When Mr. Remnick asked me to write a seven-hundred-and-twenty-five-word Take on Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 Profile of Johnny Carson, I said, “My honor, cher David.” (New Yorker editors love when you…
The Sophisticated Kitsch of Blackpink
The London-based Nigerian singer Obongjayar has been steadily drifting toward his distinct sound. Initially discovered by XL Recordings head Richard Russell for a freestyle over the Kendrick Lamar song “u,”…
Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith
Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization of the desperate life of an artist—van Gogh as reimagined…
“Eddington” and the American Berserk
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Ari Aster’s wildly divisive new movie “Eddington” drops audiences…
How Elon Musk’s Chatbot Turned Evil
“Grok styling itself as a genocidal dictator is the kind of flaw that should make the entire A.I. industry take pause.” What Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot tells us about the…
“SWAG,” Reviewed: Justin Bieber’s Messy, Improbable Masterpiece
In the course of Justin Bieber’s nearly twenty-year career, his music has come to be somewhat immaterial to his celebrity. For many, he is an almost Kardashian-like figure, whose songs…
Finding Purpose After Tragedy | The New Yorker
“Cruel, nihilistic sabotage.” That’s how Jessica Winter describes the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump Administration to dismantle the Department of Education. But, first, Joshua Rothman on a doctor’s…
The Psychic Significance of Your Wordle Starting Word
C H E A T Your husband’s habit of exchanging Instagram Reels with his co-worker might, in fact, reflect a simmering mutual attraction—one that could be fully consummated at their…
The Future of Warfare Comes to America
“While the future of warfare is being invented in places like Ukraine, U.S. officials are looking on with a growing sense of urgency.” A report on the new technology of…
Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
The Compound, by Aisling Rawle (Random House). In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV…
The First World War, in Sharp Focus
The war would not leave Tempest. Although he was demobilized in February, 1919, the Old Comrades Association commissioned him to write the history of the battalion between 1915 and 1918.…
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from…
Earth’s Poet of Scale | The New Yorker
If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the atmosphere.…
Flash Floods and Climate Policy
Tropical Storm Barry developed in the Gulf of Mexico, as this magazine still calls it, on the morning of June 29th. It was the second named storm of the season…
Inside The New Yorker’s Fiction Department
In the wake of disaster in Texas, one community is relying on its volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country, Rachel Monroe reports. But, first, Deborah Treisman, The…
Recovering the Dead in Texas’s Flash-Flood Alley
On July 3rd, Lee Pool, the chief of the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department, was heading home to Texas from a vacation in Colorado with his family when his wife, Stephanie,…
Package Tracking Takes a Dark Turn in “Paper Towels”
When an online order goes missing, employees are often blamed. But how should they be punished? Now premium users get to decide.
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, July 10, 2025
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Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party
“I believe that [Zohran Mamdani] won that primary for the same reason that Donald Trump won the Presidential election,” the governor of Kentucky says.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
All this suggests that there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 8th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an Australian brought up in England,…
An Urgent Climate Wake-Up Call
In the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse prepares to give his three hundredth climate-warning speech; Elizabeth Kolbert reports. And, then, John Cassidy on the economic consequences…
The Economic Consequences of the Big Odious Bill
Sometimes, the small details tell a larger story. On February 6th, a couple of weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he met with Republican lawmakers to discuss…
Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from…
Sink or Swim | The New Yorker
He was surprised by what he found in California: “I guess in your imagination you see four or five people wandering around, where in reality it’s piles, crowds of people…
How to Save a Dog
For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
U2’s Bono on the Power of Music
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. In…
The Tragedy of the Diddy Trial
Sean Combs mouthed “thank you” to the jurors, his hands clasped in prayer. The intricacies of their deliberations will be revealed later on, in the requisite television interviews, but, as…
What Will Be the Song of the Summer?
A new story from Jhumpa Lahiri, inspired by Mavis Gallant’s writing. But, first, a summer playlist to kick off the season. And, then, Eric Lach on how Andrew Cuomo brings…
Lorde Strips Down to Start Over
Lorde is contemporary pop’s greatest demystifier, and also its greatest mystic. This contradiction has animated her music from the beginning. “We aren’t caught up in your love affair,” she declared…
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Erica Lubliner is a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos. She provides care to a wide range of…
Zadie Smith’s New Story Is Inspired by a Classic
As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were, in some way, inspired by fiction from the…
“The Silence,” by Zadie Smith
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
The Sincaraz Era Is Tennis Reborn
For years, many Grand Slam finals became, spontaneously, an event. When Rafael Nadal played Roger Federer, or Federer faced Novak Djokovic, or Djokovic took on Andy Murray, and the games…
The Grim State of Trans Health Care
This weekend, as raucous parties and strident Pride marches take place across New York City, many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community are in a less than celebratory mood. At best, the…
ICE Detains a Respected Immigrant Journalist
“La Boca del Lobo,” a 2019 Times short documentary, follows the work of Mario Guevara, a reporter based in the outskirts of Atlanta who has a large audience among Latino…
Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution
Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and the erosion of the rule of law. These worries have…
The Supreme Court Sides with Trump Against the Judiciary
The courts cannot protect us from President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional overreach. That is the terrifying lesson of Friday’s 6–3 Supreme Court ruling limiting the power of federal judges to issue…
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery
Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump, it became obvious that many of them have reached the same…
“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation
The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact.
Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Elisa Giardina Papa Megan Fernandes joins…
A Stunning New York City Mayoral Primary
“New Yorkers didn’t know who Mamdani was just a few months ago.” We spoke with Eric Lach, who spent yesterday morning with the presumed winner of the mayoral primary, about…
NATO’s Existential Moment | The New Yorker
As the NATO summit kicks off in Brussels today, a look at how European leaders are preparing for Trump’s arrival and why the President is upending America’s commitment to the…
What Have the U.S. and Israel Accomplished in Iran?
On Monday night, forty-eight hours after President Donald Trump ordered a series of strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, he announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Earlier that day, Iran…
How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern Warfare
In the weeks before two Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked, on June 13th, in the Gulf of Oman—acts which the United States attributes to Iran—American military strategists were…
With His Eyes on History, Benjamin Netanyahu Aims for Political Resurrection
In the days after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, evaded any public admission of responsibility for the colossal security failure. He mostly avoided…
The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran
On Saturday, President Donald Trump brought the United States into Israel’s war against Iran. American planes and submarines struck three sites in Iran, including two nuclear enrichment facilities—at Natanz and…
Donald Trump Bombs Iran, and America Waits
The United States joined Israel in its war against the Islamic Republic of Iran on Saturday night as President Donald Trump ordered American bombers to destroy three key nuclear sites.…
The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship
With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs.
Was a Right to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Possible?
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Why We Turn Grief Into Art
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The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery
On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the Lotto Texas jackpot was seventy-three million dollars. There was no winner that night—there hadn’t been a winner for the past ninety-one drawings—and so the…
The Rise And Fall of DOGE
The New Yorker staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the decline of DOGE, what Elon Musk’s exit from the White House means for the department’s work, and…
Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand
Not long ago, the Irish writer Anne Enright visited Australia and New Zealand. When asking for a local recommendation at the Potts Point Bookshop, in Sydney, she was encouraged to…
Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Promises and Perils of Early Cancer Detection
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The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American…
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“Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li
Rossi’s Auto Repair and Full Service Gas had been there for as long as Maureen had been a resident of this New Jersey town. It was the last business along…
Trump’s Military Birthday Parade Rolls Past Sparse Crowds in Washington
A soldier in a Revolutionary War uniform was sitting under a tree, vaping and scrolling on his phone. It was the Army’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary celebration in D.C., and I was…
Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood | The New Yorker
Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and…
Play It Again, Charles Burnett
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There Are No Perfect Choices in the New York Mayoral Race
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After Attacking Iran, Israel Girds for What’s Next
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Donald Trump’s Dictator Cosplay | The New Yorker
Call it Donald Trump’s Strongman Week. Over the course of just a few days, the President has ordered the military into the streets of Los Angeles—over the objections of California’s…
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
The adventure part, he thinks, explains why electrics ultimately fell away. Because electric engines were expensive to produce, a coalition called the Electric Vehicle Company formed to lease them to…
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Katherine Rundell’s Fantastic Four | The New Yorker
Katherine Rundell grew up reading about mythical creatures—Minotaurs and trolls, dragons and unicorns—in books by writers like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edith Nesbit, Diana Wynne Jones, and Philip Pullman. With…
Why L.A. Became an Immigration Flash Point
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 10th
“The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?”
Trump’s Military Escalation in Los Angeles
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Immigration Protests Threaten to Boil Over in Los Angeles
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Jim Shepard on Catastrophes and Timing
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Iran’s Daughters of the Sea
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The Oligarchs Are Fighting | The New Yorker
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Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to…
The Trump-Musk Feud as Seen From D.C.’s MAGA Hotspot
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The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 4th
“I’m just a bill, a big, beautiful bill, la-la-la, you get it, I’m cutting Medicaid.”
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 2nd
“None of them thought to thank me when they won during the regular season, so this is as far as they go in the playoffs.”
“Elias,” by Jon Fosse
I need to open the door now, it’s not the end of the world, it’s just that it’s been such a long time since anyone’s knocked on my door.
Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith
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Earlier this year, a member of the Federalist Society posted an article raising the alarm about an ambitious proposal to reshape federal labor law. The proposal, titled “A Pro-Worker Framework…
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 29th
“We’re sorry, but the goodbye-party budget was gutted by DOGE.”
Examining Trump’s War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary
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The Crossword: Monday, May 26, 2025
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Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy”
Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero.















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