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)
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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)
52. 人工智能需要宪法吗？- 吉尔-勒波尔撰写了《人工智能医生：Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist》和人工智能宪法，如 Anthropic 的聊天机器人克劳德的宪法。
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)
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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)
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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)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Burkhard Bilger’s piece about turbulence, Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s article on Anthropic, Ava Kofman’s story concerning surrogacy, and Katy Waldman’s essay about fawning. (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)
The Creator of Wordle Tries to Solve the Cryptic Crossword - Josh Wardle designed one of the most popular word games of our time. Now he wants to mainstream one of the most difficult ones. (www.newyorker.com)
The Lawlessness of Trump’s War in Iran - The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize civilian casualties. (www.newyorker.com)
Georgia Fourteenth Congressional District Special-Election Map: Live Results - The race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat pits a Trump-endorsed Republican attorney against a far-right insurgent backed by Kyle Rittenhouse. (www.newyorker.com)
A Birthday-Gift Guide by Your Most Absent Aunt - It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping. (www.newyorker.com)
The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms - Donald Trump is pushing the SAVE America Act, but there are other measures to undermine the electoral system. (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is Mojtaba Khamenei - The selection of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the assassinated Supreme Leader, signals defiance, as the Islamic Republic confronts the gravest threat in its history. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 9th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Bloody Life and Legacy of El Mencho - How the death of the notorious drug kingpin unleashed a wave of cartel violence across Mexico. (www.newyorker.com)
Joe Vilardi Likes to Move It - The master rigger has hoisted huge art works for Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, and MOMA. Now he’s brought new pieces by Michael Heizer from a Nevada ranch to Gagosian. (www.newyorker.com)
The Unmaking of the American University - For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government. (www.newyorker.com)
Life in Hitler’s Capital - In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance are allowed to speak for themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “End of Days,” “Tiny Gardens Everywhere,” “Floodlines,” and “Murder Bimbo.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things,” by Brenda Hillman - “The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.” (www.newyorker.com)
How God Got So Great - What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down, but there’s a reason it swept the world. (www.newyorker.com)
“Giant” Takes on Roald Dahl and His Antisemitism - Mark Rosenblatt’s début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer. (www.newyorker.com)
A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom - The region has long attracted idealists, from the radical performers of Bread & Puppet in the seventies to the striving artisan farmers of the early two-thousands. (www.newyorker.com)
The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson - The filmmaker behind “One Battle After Another” specializes in stories about people who are cut off, adrift, desperately seeking connection. His films are studies of American loneliness. (www.newyorker.com)
The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win - Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most. (www.newyorker.com)
A Day in the Pre-Internet World, as Understood by Someone Born in 2002 - When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world. (www.newyorker.com)
How to Prevent Insider Trading on Trump’s Wars - A flurry of well-timed and anonymous bets on Polymarket right before the U.S. strike on Iran shows the need for reform. (www.newyorker.com)
The Zombie Regulator - As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin. (www.newyorker.com)
Frankie Focus, Attention-Grabber - Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent policy cracks down on phones in schools. Her enforcer? A freaky neon-green creature. (www.newyorker.com)
The Battle Between Good and Evil - Angel or devil, book or TV, tea or Martini—in the eternal conflict, which side wins out? (www.newyorker.com)
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions - Some people have an A.I. bestie. Some have an A.I. husband. Some have three. (www.newyorker.com)
“Gold Street Barn,” by Henri Cole - “From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.” (www.newyorker.com)
Addie Citchens on Judging Women and the Spirit Life of New Orleans - The author discusses her story “The City Is a Graveyard.” (www.newyorker.com)
“The City Is a Graveyard,” by Addie Citchens - Life is a wild, silly ride when you’re out here yearning as hard as you are. (www.newyorker.com)
Where Is the Iran War Headed? - President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he’s fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader. (www.newyorker.com)
How China Learned to Love the Classics - The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. (www.newyorker.com)
Addie Citchens Reads “The City Is a Graveyard” - The author reads her story from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies - Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman. (www.newyorker.com)
The Most Beautiful Freezer in the World - Notes on baking at the South Pole. (www.newyorker.com)
The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement - In their warped and wrongheaded way, the omnipresent influencer Clavicular and his compatriots are intent on demystifying the ideal of natural beauty. (www.newyorker.com)
“Neighbors” Captures the Drama That Follows You Home - In the new HBO docuseries, about petty disputes between homeowners, everyone has a gun, a grievance, and a security camera. (www.newyorker.com)
“Yam Daabo” Reintroduces a Late, Great Filmmaker - Idrissa Ouédraogo’s first feature, now streaming, is a tense drama of romance amid politics and a striking advance in cinematic form. (www.newyorker.com)
Kristi Noem’s Fireable Offenses - The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration’s deportation efforts. (www.newyorker.com)
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead - The director talks with the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb about his movie, which has been nominated for a record-setting sixteen Academy Awards. (www.newyorker.com)
The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran - As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, March 6th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago” - No Nobel Peace Prize in sight. (www.newyorker.com)
Stephen Shore, Ryan McGinley’s Xeroxes in “Hard Copy New York” - Also: Jonathan Richman’s soft touch, Sean Hayes’s liquid charm in the play “The Unknown,” “The Bride!”-related culture picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
Can a “Living Drug” Cure Autoimmune Diseases? - CAR-T was developed as a cancer treatment. Now it is showing promise for conditions that have long been considered incurable, such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. (www.newyorker.com)
Iran’s Desperate, High-Risk Survival Strategy - The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense. (www.newyorker.com)
“Hoppers” Is a Happy Leap Forward for Pixar - In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and talk with the animals. (www.newyorker.com)
The Iran War Spreads to Lebanon - As the region spasms, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah is gathering force. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 5th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The End of Limits on a President’s Wars - Past conflicts eroded Congress’s ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran destroyed it. (www.newyorker.com)
Zohran Mamdani and the Art of the Ask - The new mayor’s plans require funding. How will he get it? (www.newyorker.com)
The No-Explanation War - The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sacred Vibes of Wunmi Mosaku - The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo healer in “Sinners,” stops at a Brooklyn apothecary and reflects on pregnancy, learning Yoruba, and blessing Michael B. Jordan’s bag. (www.newyorker.com)
I Asked ChatGPT and This Is What It Said - It’s so important to care about your health, and you’re so clever to check! (www.newyorker.com)
The Hall of Fame—and of Shame—of Oscars Hosts - Even the most seasoned performers have had trouble nailing the gig. Why is it so hard to get right? (www.newyorker.com)
“Vladimir” TV Review - The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes. (www.newyorker.com)
The Washington Roundtable on the Iran War - Is the U.S. repeating the mistakes of the invasion of Iraq? (www.newyorker.com)
“The Bride!” Exclaims but Never Explains - Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped. (www.newyorker.com)
Yuval Sharon Reimagines the Canon - The opera director—whose Met début, “Tristan und Isolde,” premières next week—discusses a few of his influences. (www.newyorker.com)
Why a Democratic Congressman Is Supporting Trump’s War with Iran - Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East. (www.newyorker.com)
Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism in “The Spectacle”? - Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 4th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Honest Eyelash-Curler Reviews - Dang, no lashes left behind with this curler. It even reaches those tiny corner lashes. Lifts, separates—the works. Also, the first time I used this curler, I saw God. (www.newyorker.com)
The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube - With releases like “Iron Lung” and “Backrooms,” Hollywood is looking to the platform for the next generation of horror auteurs. (www.newyorker.com)
Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO - In a new standup set, the comedian uses oddball physicality to locate the weird in the everyday. (www.newyorker.com)
Rimbaud and Verlaine in Washington Square Park - “Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York—and testifies to punk’s paradoxical relationship with the past. (www.newyorker.com)
In the Texas Primaries, a Good Night for James Talarico, and a Bad One for John Cornyn - Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas in more than thirty years, but on Tuesday night they seemed to have found an interesting prospect. (www.newyorker.com)
Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War? - On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, March 3rd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
North Carolina Primary Map: Live Election Results - The state’s primaries on March 3rd will determine candidates for House and Senate races in November, with major implications for the balance of power in Congress. (www.newyorker.com)
Why a Woman Would Rather Love a Statue Than a Man - In “When the Museum Is Closed,” Emi Yagi takes her study of female objectification to a new, literal extreme. (www.newyorker.com)
Baking Cookies as a Modern Human - Hold up . . . do you even own an oven mitt? (www.newyorker.com)
Texas Primary Map: Live Election Results - Both parties’ primaries for U.S. Senate have been fiercely competitive, while Governor Greg Abbott looks to take a first step toward securing an unprecedented fourth term. (www.newyorker.com)
Martin Parr’s Eye for Human Folly - The British photographer spent his career examining appetites and the contradictions they engender. (www.newyorker.com)
Special Episode: War in Iran - U.S. and Israeli air strikes have killed the Iran’s Supreme Leader, sparked a regional conflagration, and set the stage for a “strategic shit show,” Ishaan Tharoor says. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? - So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many. (www.newyorker.com)
The Republicans Are Messing with Texas - Amid the controversy over redrawn district maps, a bitter senatorial primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, and growing dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, has the Party overreached? (www.newyorker.com)
“Breath,” by David Baker - “When it’s time, let me walk where the grey moon / is light enough to lead.” (www.newyorker.com)
New York City Ballet Premières for the “No Kings” Era - Justin Peck takes on Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony, while Alexei Ratmansky turns the tale of the Emperor’s new clothes into an anti-Trump satire. (www.newyorker.com)
“How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” Is an Ode to Middle-Aged Friendship - The series, from the creator of “Derry Girls,” focusses on a group of Irish women investigating a death. But it feels less like a murder mystery and more like a buddy comedy. (www.newyorker.com)
Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle - Stephen Spencer is a college music lecturer, but his side gig is producing songs written by his three-year-old. “Apple The Stoola,” Record of the Year? (www.newyorker.com)
The Man Who Broke Into Jail - In Nashville, a criminal-justice activist commits a baffling crime. (www.newyorker.com)
Jafar Panahi Steps Out of the Shadows - The director of “It Was Just an Accident” will face arrest upon his return to Iran after the Oscars. But for now he’s looking for a new pair of shades. (www.newyorker.com)
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies - With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe? (www.newyorker.com)
Kadir Nelson’s “Cold Chill” - Trying to stay warm. (www.newyorker.com)
Eugène Atget’s Epic Record of Time and Place - An exhibit of the French artist’s work at the I.C.P. shows how he taught photography to be specific. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The War Within a War,” “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” “The Renovation,” and “Simple Heart.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm - Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today? (www.newyorker.com)
Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial - This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. (www.newyorker.com)
“‘I Might Not Be Here,’” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths - “We were being married / & it felt like marriage, our lives gliding in laughter.” (www.newyorker.com)
Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? - As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement. (www.newyorker.com)
The Tree House and the Oil Pipeline - In the fight against climate change, sometimes you have to go out on a limb. (www.newyorker.com)
High Times, Flying Once More - The stoner magazine stopped publishing in 2024. Now the founder of Raw Rolling Papers is lighting it up again. (www.newyorker.com)
The Modern Conditions - “Keeping Cough,” “Theraphonia,” and, oh, yes, “polio”: common ailments in the age of R.F.K., Jr. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Monday, March 2nd - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
The Shocking Season 4 Finale of “Industry” - Yasmin’s nihilistic trajectory on the HBO show arrives at a horrific low point. (www.newyorker.com)
What Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Meant to Iran, and What Comes Next - The Supreme Leader, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades, has been killed by Israel and the United States. Can the regime survive without him? (www.newyorker.com)
Has Trump Thought Through the Endgame in Iran? - The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes, but the conflict is far from over, and has convulsed the Middle East in a spasm of interstate violence. (www.newyorker.com)
“Calm Sea and Hard Faring,” by Yiyun Li - The children, two by two, walked into the woods solemnly, the hurricane lamp swinging, the light vanishing and then returning. (www.newyorker.com)
Yiyun Li on Stories That Happen Twice - The author discusses her story “Calm Sea and Hard Faring.” (www.newyorker.com)
Yiyun Li Reads “Calm Sea and Hard Faring” - The author reads her story from the March 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor - The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Pilgrims,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1963. (www.newyorker.com)
What Mehdi Mahmoudian Saw Inside the Iranian Prison System - The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” speaks about the abuses he’s witnessed and endured, war between the U.S. and Iran, and the true stories behind the film. (www.newyorker.com)
Can the Democrats Get It Together? - The fight over the 2028 primary calendar is one of several proxies for a broader battle about the future of the Party—and the search for the best nominee. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: The Golden Steer - The Golden Steer has attempted a rare reverse migration from Sin City to the Big Apple. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump Launches a War of “Epic Fury” on Iran - The U.S. and Israel have ignited a campaign to topple the Islamic Republic—with little thought to what comes after. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Reckless Decision to Pursue Regime Change in Iran - And the risks Democrats face if they fail to strongly oppose his war. (www.newyorker.com)
The Latest Columbia Student Detained by ICE - Elmina (Ellie) Aghayeva was taken from her university apartment on Thursday, almost one year after Mahmoud Khalil. How is the community coping? (www.newyorker.com)
The BAFTAs, and the Sloppy Pieties of Liberal Entertainment - The BBC spent resources politically castrating its awards-show broadcast that would have been better spent protecting vulnerable guests. (www.newyorker.com)
How High-Powered Lasers Became Part of Donald Trump’s Border-Security Complex - The funding debate in Congress is over immigration-enforcement practices, but the Administration is still spending unprecedented sums on military-grade equipment at the southern border. (www.newyorker.com)
The True Story of ISIS’s Rise in Syria - The rebellion against Assad led to sudden freedom, but also to crime and inequality. The Islamic State took advantage. (www.newyorker.com)
“Everyone is Overreacting” on the Tariff Ruling, Stephen Vladeck Says - Is the Supreme Court really checking Trump’s power? (www.newyorker.com)
The Ellison Media Empire Grows Again - After torpedoing Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros., Paramount Skydance is poised to have multiple major news organizations under its control. (www.newyorker.com)
The Iranians Waiting, and Even Hoping, for War - A war with the U.S. would be catastrophic for Iran. But some Iranians believe it may be the only way to topple the regime. (www.newyorker.com)
What Could Go Wrong, or Right, in a War with Iran - The foreign-policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour on what it would mean for the United States to pursue regime change in Iran, once again. (www.newyorker.com)
Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry” - Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of the financial drama, explain what “finance bros” misunderstand about capitalism’s allure. (www.newyorker.com)
Mitski’s New Album Is a Dark Ode to Isolation - On “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” a reclusive woman confronts the inhospitality of the world beyond her door. (www.newyorker.com)
Two New Documentaries Are Haunted by Unsettling Natural Wonders - Gianfranco Rosi’s “Pompei: Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux. (www.newyorker.com)
Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season - What’s new in theatre, movies, television, art, dance, classical, and contemporary music. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Friday, February 27th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents - The South Korean director Hong Sangsoo finds high drama and philosophical insights in the chance encounter of a woman’s boyfriend with her family. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday - PragerU, a fount of Judeo-Christian edutainment, is now a key partner in the Trump Administration’s “civic education” campaign. (www.newyorker.com)
The Timeless Provocations of “Wuthering Heights” (the Novel) - A great fuss surrounds Emerald Fennell’s anachronistic adaptation, but Emily Brontë’s ruthless text will always have the last word. (www.newyorker.com)
The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement - Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was. (www.newyorker.com)
“Hate Radio” Chucks the Transcript - A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths. (www.newyorker.com)
The Media Merger You Should Actually Care About - An under-the-radar, Trump-approved deal could create a broadcasting behemoth that controls local news stations across more than forty states. Why do some MAGA diehards oppose it? (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, February 26th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Critics at Large Live: “Wuthering Heights” and Its Afterlives - Emerald Fennell’s brazen take on the classic has both exhilarated and infuriated viewers. What does an adaptation owe to its source material? (www.newyorker.com)
Finishing School: The Moby-Dick Club - This year marks the hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary, or demisemiseptcentennial, of “Moby-Dick,” originally published in 1851. (Saving you the math.) Is it O.K. to have a “Moby-Dick” T-shirt for every day of the week? (www.newyorker.com)
How the Epstein Files Are Forcing a Reckoning with Power - Instead of providing closure, the release of thousands of documents has intensified the fear that the full truth may be unknowable—and that institutions cannot be relied on to provide it. (www.newyorker.com)
Kash Patel Can’t Contain Himself - So much winning to enjoy. (www.newyorker.com)
How Michael Pollan Expanded His Consciousness - The writer discusses a few of the works that influenced his new book, “A World Appears.” (www.newyorker.com)
Adrian Matejka Reads C. D. Wright - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.” (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, February 25th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s State of the Union Was Long and Wrong - But at least the President thinks everything is going great. (www.newyorker.com)
When Do We Become Adults, Really? - Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what it’s like to grow up. (www.newyorker.com)
“TBPN” and the Rise of the Tech-Friendly Talk Show - Silicon Valley had grown to resent the mainstream media. Two tech insiders decided to build their own version of it. (www.newyorker.com)
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The Betrayal of a Friend’s False Testimony - Under pressure from interrogators, a teen-ager helped send three of his friends to prison for murder. How could he ever make amends? (www.newyorker.com)
What Makes an Object Sexy? - A book of reportage on kinky subcultures describes how “deviant desire” can be transcendent —and completely mundane. (www.newyorker.com)
Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies - This year’s leading Oscar contenders are invigorated by performers notable for their personalities and wider-world accomplishments. (www.newyorker.com)
The Russians Turning to Google Maps In Search of Missing Soldiers - Around a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, four years ago. Family members, who often aren’t informed of their loved ones’ fates, have been relying on a digital place of last resort. (www.newyorker.com)
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 24th - A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. (www.newyorker.com)
Are We Living in the Age of Jeffrey Epstein? - The scandal suggests that everything awful we’ve ever believed is true. (www.newyorker.com)
More Places Microplastics Can Be Found - In a funk: They couldn’t help but notice that the over-all vibe of the online chatter was negative. (www.newyorker.com)
A Visit with The Talk of the Town - The Most Interesting Man in the World judges ideas for The Talk of the Town. (www.newyorker.com)
New York’s Best-Dressed Dogs Compete - Zeph McDonough takes a tour through the Annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest, and talks to its quirky participants. (www.newyorker.com)
Maybe She’s Born With It. Maybe It’s . . . Something Else - Some women seem to have it all. How do they make it look so effortless? (www.newyorker.com)
What I Imagine My Boyfriend’s Ex-Girlfriends Are Doing Right Now - Your partner’s exes can get inside your head—and they might just enjoy a few mimosas while they’re in there. (www.newyorker.com)
Cartoon Cautionary Tales - Edward Steed animates some of life’s most crucial lessons. (www.newyorker.com)
Introducing Our Mind-Blowing Virtual-Reality App - Think you know what reading is? Think again. Test-driving The New Yorker’s newest technological breakthrough. (www.newyorker.com)