The New Yorker

November 18, 2024

Helping “Gypsy” ’s Strippers Take It All Off Anew

George C. Wolfe finds inspiration for his production—starring Audra McDonald as Broadway’s first Black Mama Rose—watching the pasties twirl...

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November 18, 2024

An Investigation Into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries

One of the notes on potential jurors read, “I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,” then added, “Must Kick, too Risky.”

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November 18, 2024

This Election Just Proves What I Already Believed

The list of issues I was right about goes on and on. Guns? Kamala Harris owns too many, but also not enough.

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November 18, 2024

Understanding Latino Support for Donald Trump

Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.

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November 18, 2024

Why Is Elon Musk Really Embracing Donald Trump?

After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more.

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November 18, 2024

With Help from Martin Scorsese, a Little Italy Organ Gets a Sprucing Up

Since the Civil War, the Erben organ has imbued St. Patrick’s Basilica with “a tinge of sadness.”

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November 18, 2024

Why N.S.A. Rules Say No to Smartphones, No to Texting, Yes to Podcasts

The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”

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November 18, 2024

The Crossword: Monday, November 18, 2024

Dalmatian, e.g.: five letters.

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November 17, 2024

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due”

The author reads his story from the November 25, 2024, issue of the magazine.

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November 17, 2024

Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback

The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.

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November 17, 2024

Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Wonders

The President-elect’s nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet. But it is a trollin...

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November 17, 2024

Rafael Nadal’s Last Stand

Amid his impending retirement, the tennis champion leaves behind a legacy of courage.

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November 17, 2024

“Here,” Then and Now

Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums.

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November 17, 2024

Upstairs and Downstairs at Clemente Bar

A new lounge above Eleven Madison Park offers refined plant-based bites and beverages while leaving fine-dining social hierarchies intact.

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November 16, 2024

Jake Paul Gave Mike Tyson a Senseless Beating

The YouTuber turned boxer triumphed over the legend of Iron Mike, and, less impressively, the man himself.

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November 16, 2024

How Donald Trump Gave Democrats the Working-Class Blues

Kamala Harris spoke of creating an “opportunity economy,” a vague idea more likely to appeal to entrepreneurs than to struggling workers.

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November 16, 2024

Documentaries of Dissent

“No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see.

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November 16, 2024

Bearing Witness to American Exploits

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of h...

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November 15, 2024

“Terrorists in Retirement” Brings Wartime Traumas Back to Life

With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a mainly Jewish grou...

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November 15, 2024

The Mini Crossword: Friday, November 15, 2024

The Rockies or the Andes, for example: five letters.

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November 15, 2024

What Russia and Ukraine Want from a Second Trump Presidency

The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome.

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November 15, 2024

The Naïveté Behind Post-Election Despair

What sort of reply can one offer to a person who has already decided that the world ends here?

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November 15, 2024

“Say Nothing” Is a Gripping Drama of Political Disillusionment

The FX adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book captures both the allure of the I.R.A.’s cause and the way violence comes to weigh on its p...

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November 15, 2024

The Elegiac Art of Robert Frank

Also: Rachel Syme samples opulent advent calendars, Helen Shaw reviews “Tammy Faye” and “A Wonderful World,” “Emilia Pérez” is streaming, an...

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November 15, 2024

The Most Extreme Cabinet Ever

Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun.

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November 14, 2024

Why the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than It’s Ever Been

As “imminent” famine looms, Israel’s legislature has voted to ban the main U.N. relief agency for Palestinians.