The New Yorker

May 19, 2026

If People Talked About Other Technologies the Way They Talk About A.I.

Don’t worry—we have the most brilliant scientists in the world working to make sure it’s not in the Cuisinart mixer’s best interest to kill...

The New Yorker

May 19, 2026

The Crossword: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Kingdom more closely related to Animalia than to Plantae: five letters.

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May 19, 2026

Kentucky Primary-Elections Map: Live Results

A race to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate and Thomas Massie tries to hold on to his seat in Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional Distr...

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May 19, 2026

The Enrollment Cliff Is Here. Which Schools Will Survive It?

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

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May 19, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

What Thomas Massie’s Race Says About Trump’s Influence

The race between Thomas Massie and Ed Gallrein in Kentucky asks the question: Can a Republican defy Trump in this day and age, and still exp...

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May 18, 2026

Benjamin Netanyahu’s War at Home

The Israeli Prime Minister’s government is bringing radical change to the country’s democratic institutions.

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May 18, 2026

All of a Sudden, the Glories of Cannes Are Upon Us

In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Ryûsuke Hamag...

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

Where Are the Tariff Refunds for American Consumers?

The Trump Administration has started repaying more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars to companies that paid its import duties. So far...

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May 18, 2026

Mary Todd Lincoln Has Long Been Derided. Is Her Reputation Salvageable?

History knows the First Lady as a hysterical widow and a lavish spender. Her most recent biographer chooses to highlight her mental fortitud...

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May 18, 2026

Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World

The composer’s work, featured at a recent festival in Germany, includes a howling denunciation of war crimes against children.

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May 18, 2026

Baseball’s Magna Carta Finds a New Home

In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby’s auction and nabbed the “Laws of Base Ball,” a nineteenth-century document detailing early rules of...

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

Shaggy’s Boombastic Pilates Session

In town to talk about his new album, “Lottery,” and en route to a collaboration with Sting, the Grammy-winning reggae star stretches and sha...

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May 18, 2026

Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions

“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my...

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May 18, 2026

The Crossword: Monday, May 18, 2026

Artist who painted himself as Goliath in “David with the Head of Goliath”: ten letters.

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

Cartoons from the Issue

Cartoons from the Issue

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Monday, May 18, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

Can Mozart and Salieri Work It Out?

At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish on playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on Starz’s...

The New Yorker

May 18, 2026

The Age of “Intentional” Drinking

Americans are losing their appetite for booze. Could the mini Martini lure them back?

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May 18, 2026

Can Hakeem Jeffries Lead a Democratic Takeover of the House?

An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trump—and internal divisions among Democrats—has made the Minority Leader’s path to vic...

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May 18, 2026

Play Laugh Lines No. 72: Art, Part 2

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

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

Weike Wang on Recurring Dreams and Loneliness

The author discusses her story “The Dreamdrive.”

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May 17, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Sunday, May 17, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

“The Dreamdrive,” by Weike Wang

Each morning, he “awoke”—not the term he would have used—exhausted, having not slept and having driven all night.

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

Can the Democrats Take Back the Senate?

Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan?

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”

The author name reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda

The AMC dramedy “The Audacity” treats its terrifying tech less like a distorted dystopian future and more like a reflection of our current c...

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

Boots Riley, Marx Brother

Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

Restaurant Review: Dean’s Is Not Your Average Pub

Dean’s, a new restaurant from the team behind King, isn’t really a pub; it’s a hot downtown restaurant wearing a pub’s clothing, Helen Rosne...

The New Yorker

May 17, 2026

The Fastball Has Never Been Faster

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseball’s pitching development. But what does that kind o...

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May 17, 2026

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May 16, 2026

The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke

A new law in the U.K. bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest of their lives. For the British government, even a sixty-year-ol...

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May 16, 2026

Biking Outside the Lines in New York City

Brian Finke’s photographs document riders breaking through the constraints of the city’s crowded landscape—and showing off while they do.

The New Yorker

May 16, 2026

Can Art Teach?

Describing a work of art as “didactic” has become a way of writing it off. But works such as HBO’s “The Pitt” push us to reconsider the meri...

The New Yorker

May 16, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Saturday, May 16, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

May 16, 2026

Louisiana Primary-Election Map: Live Results

Bill Cassidy tries to defend his seat against a Trump-endorsed challenger; congressional races are postponed in the wake of the Louisiana v....

The New Yorker

May 16, 2026

The Pageantry and Flattery of Donald Trump’s Visit to China

During his visit with Xi Jinping, the President touted his entourage of C.E.O.s, kept the press at arm’s length, and avoided offering a clea...

The New Yorker

May 16, 2026

A Member of the “Seditious Six” on Reviving the Democratic Party

The Democratic representative Jason Crow on how the Party can recruit winning candidates and craft a message that will defeat Donald Trump a...

The New Yorker

May 15, 2026

How to Win Our Cartoon Caption Contest

From the daily newsletter: Or, at least, how to give it your best shot.

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May 15, 2026

America at 250: A View from the Streets

We asked Americans what they’re thinking and feeling about the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.

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May 15, 2026

The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore

Three prominent historians discuss a national milestone arriving in the midst of a politically charged conflict over how Americans see the p...

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May 15, 2026

Daily Cartoon: Friday, May 15th

See today’s Daily Cartoon.

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May 15, 2026

The Mini Crossword: Friday, May 15, 2026

Fluid produced in the liver: four letters.

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May 15, 2026

The Confessions of Isaiah Rashad

The Tennessee rapper reflects on sobriety, the scrutiny he faced after his sexuality was publicized, and a new album that fittingly covers h...

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May 15, 2026

Play Shuffalo: Friday, May 15, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The New Yorker

May 15, 2026

What the Gerrymandering Wars Mean for the Midterms—and 2028

“The balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right.” The New York Times’ chief political analyst on whether the Democ...

The New Yorker

May 15, 2026

Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound

The polymath musician, formerly of Vampire Weekend, likes to push our idea of what a pop song can be.

The New Yorker

May 15, 2026

The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

The New Yorker

May 15, 2026

How a New Israeli Policy Cuts Off Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred 37 international N.G.O.s from Gaza. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on with...