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April 18, 2025

The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on...

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April 18, 2025

Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game

Triumph hasn’t spoiled the comedian, or settled her insecurities. “It just never goes away—that feeling of not being worthy, or being though...

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April 18, 2025

The Power and Stakes of #TeslaTakedown

An organizer in the grassroots protest effort discusses why she joined the movement, and describes protesters’ fears of government interfere...

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April 18, 2025

How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Jill Lepore says that the SpaceX C.E.O., an avid sci-fi fan, misreads cautionary tales as instruction manuals—and that his obsessions will s...

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April 18, 2025

The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West

After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself. A letter signed by its illustrious contributors says a...

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April 18, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 18th

“Too much for hiding eggs in a field?”

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April 18, 2025

“Invention” Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and paranoia.

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April 18, 2025

The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion

Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges on stage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Yous...

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April 17, 2025

This Easter, with the Pope Ailing, Will the Catholic Church Stand Up to Trump?

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new w...

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April 17, 2025

The Judges Standing Up to Trump

From the daily newsletter: as the Administration flirts with contempt of court, two federal judges are trying to uphold the rule of law.

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April 17, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 17th

“Just wait till 2028 and things will go right back to how they were.”

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April 17, 2025

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, April 17, 2025

Jane Austen’s Woodhouse or Gustave Flaubert’s Bovary: four letters.

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April 17, 2025

It’s the Economy, Idiom!

You are all magnetic and user-centric examples of how, when we benchmark blue-sky thinking, even in a pre-tax, low-hanging-fruit environment...

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April 17, 2025

China’s Plan to Fight Trump’s Trade War

A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s...

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April 17, 2025

War Movies: What Are They Good For?

“Warfare” reconstructs an ill-fated 2006 mission in Iraq from the memories of the Navy SEALs involved. Does this method bring us closer to t...

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April 17, 2025

London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory

New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menageri...

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April 17, 2025

“Sinners” Is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror

Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in nineteen-thirties Missis...

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April 17, 2025

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April 16, 2025

The Fight for Higher Ed Is Just Beginning

From the daily newsletter: recession indicators are everywhere; and why the Supreme Court misunderstands Trump.

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April 16, 2025

Clare Carlisle and the Genre-Bender

The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.

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April 16, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, April 16th

“Today, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in the case of People v. Guy Who Will Ignore the Ruling.”

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April 16, 2025

I’m Really Dating Myself Here

My hair is parted to the side—it looks so nerdy parted in the middle! I know I’m still dating myself, but what do I care? At least the perso...

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April 16, 2025

Recession Indicators Are Everywhere

The memes responding to Trump’s seesawing tariff policy hint at a collective psychological state.

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April 16, 2025

The Crossword: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Fish in a caterpillar roll: three letters.

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April 15, 2025

Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump

Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.

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April 15, 2025

A Weird Tax Season at the I.R.S.

From the daily newsletter: Harvard versus the White House; and Trump eyes a minerals deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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April 15, 2025

How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

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April 15, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 15th

“Brace yourself—here come the C.P.A.s!”

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April 15, 2025

The Crossword: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Dot on an “i” or a “j”: six letters.

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April 15, 2025

Existential Kids

How did I get inside my body?

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April 15, 2025

The Plight of the Taxman

As I.R.S. employees toil through tax season, their agency is being dismantled by the government it powers.

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April 15, 2025

Just How Badly Does Donald Trump Want Access to Critical Minerals?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a war.

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April 15, 2025

What Do You Remember?

The more you explore your own past, the more you find there.

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April 15, 2025

Kids Say the Most Existential Things

How did I get inside my body?

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April 14, 2025

The Rise of the Fetal-Personhood Claim in the Anti-Abortion Movement

From the daily newsletter: the constitutional rights of embryos. Plus: evidence of starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails.

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April 14, 2025

Will the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump?

By defying the Justices’ ruling on a man mistakenly sent to El Salvador, the Administration has shown that it is not owed the deference typi...

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April 14, 2025

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April 14, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 14th

“No need to worry about our retirement funds—have you seen what these Trader Joe’s tote bags are reselling for?”

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April 14, 2025

Bagels, Ranked

Jalapeño and Cheddar: This is not a bagel. This is what you order to signal to the guy at the counter that you need him to call a cop.

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April 14, 2025

Letters from Our Readers

Readers respond to Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s piece about the near-universality of declining birthrates.

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April 14, 2025

How to Survive the A.I. Revolution

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

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April 14, 2025

“Fireflies”

“The new air is empty, and who knew / we’d miss even what afflicted us?”

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April 14, 2025

After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

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April 14, 2025

Briefly Noted

Short reviews of recent releases.

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April 14, 2025

The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her reputation.

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April 14, 2025

David Byrne Takes the Stairs

The Talking Heads front man brought his acrylic markers to the Pace gallery recently to make some art—dancing ovals, a glamorous blob—on the...

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April 14, 2025

Donald Trump’s Tariffs and the Price of Calm

The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.

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April 14, 2025

R. Crumb Looks Back

The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own psychedelic skulls,...

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April 14, 2025

Play Laugh Lines No. 15: Taxes

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

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April 14, 2025

What Comes After D.E.I.?

Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framewo...