The End of “END RACISM” in the End Zone
Racism has ended! Have you heard? Or maybe ending racism has ended. On Tuesday, it was reported that the N.F.L. would switch one of the slogans stencilled on the edge of the end zone during Super Bowl LIX from “END…
Lundy’s and the Risks of Restaurant Revivals
I’m not sure if the same can be said of the new Lundy’s, whose home is an odd little corner building, inset in a gated lot where the city’s yellow school buses sleep at night, across the street from the…
My Life with Left-Handed Women
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed…
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting room is full by 7 A.M., and it can take as…
Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I. | The New Yorker
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 in-box. Many of the most draconian measures implemented in the first couple…
Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror | The New Yorker
Nearly twenty years ago, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic account of the shambolic American takeover of the Iraqi government, “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.” Most memorably, he described what a Times reviewer called “the lethal combination…
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
Some misunderstandings can be remedied by a simple explanation. Others end friendships or marriages. The most frightening miscommunications are those between nuclear-armed superpowers. In October, 1962, near the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine in the Caribbean…
Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?
The veteran transportation-safety reporter Matthew L. Wald breaks down the dangers of airline safety becoming a political flashpoint.
The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus | The New Yorker
Adam Smith is a standard boomer Democrat—born in 1965, technically a year after the generational cutoff, but he still uses an AOL account, which pushes him over the line. He likes to read books about the high stakes of democracy:…
Women Won the Grammys | The New Yorker
In today’s newsletter, Dexter Filkins offers an in-depth report on why the military is facing one of its most severe recruitment shortfalls in fifty years. But, first, Carrie Battan on memorable moments from last night’s Grammys. Plus: Doechii Photograph by…
A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming
In the course of the project, as Barbara grew older, Wywrot’s photographs became more collaborative, and more humorous, with mother and daughter messing around, staging scenes together. Wywrot told me that when her own creative energy collided with Barbara’s, a…
Donald Trump’s Anti-Woke Wrecking Ball
On the Wednesday evening of a Washington week defined by a blitzkrieg of executive orders, vituperative confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, and an effort by the new President to suspend much of the federal…
David Rabe on the Mystery of Friendship
This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Your story, “My Friend Pinocchio,” explores a decades-long friendship between…
How to Understand the Reagan Airport Crash
It took the social-media site X about an hour to reach consensus on the cause of the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday evening: the helicopter was trying to take down the plane, to kill someone on board….
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
At her house, Kohner-Zuckerman showed me souvenirs of her parents’ world, which were nestled amid memorabilia of her beach days. One was a bound copy of her father’s University of Vienna dissertation, “Der Deutsche Film: Tatbestand und Kritik einer neuen…
The Brief and Brilliant Career of Sara Gómez
Such new forms of behavior and new ways of thinking are exactly what Gómez brings to light in her feature, “One Way or Another.” The opening credits trumpet its blend of documentary and fiction, labelling it “A film about people,…
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Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Revenge
It was a mega-MAGA morning on Capitol Hill. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the F.B.I., faced hostile questioning from Democrats about his past as a QAnon-adjacent promoter of conspiracy theories and his…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 30th
“This is most likely caused by the stress of having your symptoms constantly dismissed, but I wouldn’t worry about it.”
What the Capybara Can Teach Us
In today’s newsletter, Gary Shteyngart explains his love for the world’s biggest rodent, and then: Caroline Mimbs NyceNewsletter editor The capybara is big and brown and buck-toothed; it looks like a giant, dusty, rounder rat. The Internet is positively obsessed….
Behind the Chaotic Attempt to Freeze Federal Assistance
On Monday, January 27th, the United States Office of Management and Budget sent out an unprecedented directive instructing all government agencies to carry out a sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans, and other financial-assistance programs. This…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 28th
“Apparently, there’s a new Chinese A.I. company that can much more cheaply make us have to hear about A.I.”
From the Front Lines of a California Wildfire
In today’s newsletter, our puzzles and games editor, Liz Maynes-Aminzade, introduces Laugh Lines, a new weekly game that challenges your knowledge of New Yorker cartoons. But, first, M. R. O’Connor reports on what it’s like to fight a wildfire. Plus: An…
“A Visit from the Chief,” by Samanta Schweblin
Lidia was struck that no one moved to give their seat to the old woman. Perhaps it was because she held so tightly to the handrail, seeming to obstinately ignore her own fragility, or maybe it was just that her…
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something of the ludicrous with them, and by inventing grotesque terms…
David Lynch’s (Possible) Realism | The New Yorker
In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in his late twenties and had just finished shooting his first feature film, “Eraserhead.” After living on set, in the stables…
Tom Brady, Armchair Quarterback | The New Yorker
A few months ago, when Tom Brady was beginning his career as an N.F.L. commentator for Fox Sports, a commercial aired. It begins with Brady, his face all angles, sitting at a desk in a nondescript room, looking at videos…
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 operators, as taxis, or perhaps rent them, à la Zipcar….
Returning to a Home Consumed by the Wildfires
The longtime staff writer Dana Goodyear talks about the inferno that devastated her house and thousands of other buildings in the Los Angeles area.
Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages
Exhausted yet? It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency, and so far he has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty and the World Health Organization; announced the unilateral cancellation of the Constitution’s…
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Two New Yorker Films Receive 2025 Oscar Nominations
The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday, and two New Yorker films are among the contenders. “Incident,” which uses body-camera and surveillance footage to examine a police shooting in Chicago, is nominated in the Documentary Short Film category, while…
David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Within hours of his Inauguration, and shortly after proclaiming that his victory had been preordained by God, Donald…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 22nd
“Act now—the first fifty callers receive a Presidential pardon.”
Should You Question Everything? | The New Yorker
Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a couple of videos a thumbs-up, and your whole feed swerves in a new ideological direction. My political default is…
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Under the Radar Keeps Rollin’ Along
When Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II first adapted Edna Ferber’s epic novel “Show Boat” for the stage, in the nineteen-twenties, they were the wild-eyed experimenters of their day. The American musical before 1927 had been light stuff—part operetta, part…
Donald Trump Plays Church | The New Yorker
It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least once every four years. Every Inauguration Day, many of the…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 20th
“Come to think of it, I’d love to contribute to the coronation fund.”
America Experiences Hours of TikTok Withdrawal
In today’s newsletter, TikTok in limbo, and then: Photograph by Andy Bao / AP Kyle ChaykaStaff writer Just before 11 P.M. on Saturday night, TikTok went dark in the United States. According to U.S. law, the platform’s parent company, ByteDance,…
Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.
The conflagration that became known as the Bel Air Fire broke out on the morning of November 6, 1961, in a patch of brush north of Mulholland Drive. Fanned by Santa Ana winds, the flames jumped the drive, then spread…
The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea
During Han’s lifetime—he died in 1999—he was primarily known for his commercial work. In 1966, he founded Han’s Photo, one of the first studios to specialize in advertising (cosmetics, electronics) as South Korea’s consumer age was ushered in. He occasionally…
Madame President: The Cover That Never Was
The portrait above, “Kamala,” painted by Kadir Nelson, would have been the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue of The New Yorker—that is, if Kamala Harris had won the election on November 5th. Instead, late that evening, when it…
How Fast Turn Circuit Board Manufacturers Ensure Precision
Fast Turn Circuit Board Manufacturers Ensure Precision The emergence of fast turn PCB manufacturing has transformed the way companies operate. Faster prototyping and production accelerates innovation for businesses seeking to meet changing market demands. This shift towards efficiency has also…
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
Like many medications, the wakefulness drug modafinil, which is marketed under the trade name Provigil, comes with a small, tightly folded paper pamphlet. For the most part, its contents—lists of instructions and precautions, a diagram of the drug’s molecular structure—make…
How Does the Cost of HDI Boards Compare to Multi-Layer Boards?
Cost of HDI Boards Compare to Multi-Layer Boards The electronics industry is focusing on HDI or High-Density Interface boards right now. These boards allow for much more components to be placed on a single PCB and fit in minuscule form…
Why the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Is Happening Now
On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas announced an agreement on a multi-phase ceasefire deal that, if fully implemented, would bring the war in Gaza to an end. Phase one of the deal, which is expected to go into effect in the…
Joe Biden’s Farewell Speech: “An Oligarchy Is Taking Shape”
George Washington’s farewell address, a long valedictory letter written largely by Alexander Hamilton, and published in Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser, in September, 1796, was an eloquent rationale for his departure from public life and for the need for peaceful transitions of…
The Shock of a Gaza Ceasefire Deal
Shortly after 7 P.M. on Wednesday in Israel, Keren Marciano, a news anchor for Channel 12, announced, “This time, it’s real.” She went on, “Four hundred and sixty-seven days after the start of the war, a deal is in place…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 15th
“Between shorter daylight hours and longer times for getting dressed, it’s easier to stay inside.”
Watch John Early Enters the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest | Cartoon Caption Contest
[light music] I’m John Early, and today, I’m gonna caption some cartoons. [laughs] There is a flight attendant. Not clear as to whether or not he’s gay. [bell ringing] I’m shocked to say I have a really strong instinct with…
The Pressure Campaign to Get Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary
The lack of rigor in the Hegseth investigation is reminiscent of the F.B.I.’s investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation hearing, in 2018. Three years after Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the F.B.I. disclosed that it had received more than forty-five…
The Inauguration of Trump’s Oligarchy
In modern terms, a Presidential Inauguration is an open-air branding opportunity. John F. Kennedy, a hatless Cold Warrior, placed his Administration at the vanguard of a new generation “born in this century,” and delivered an internationalist vow to “pay any…
Coco Gauff Edits Her Game
Last year, Coco Gauff, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, hit four hundred and thirty double faults—by far the highest total on tour, sixty more than the player with the next most. Nineteen of them came in one…
Could Other Countries Prosecute Soldiers in Gaza?
Last spring, a video spread across social media. Filmed at night, it shows several soldiers in olive-green army fatigues transporting a group of prisoners. The captured men wear white jumpsuits and blindfolds, and they have their hands tied behind their…
What’s a Fact, Anyway? | The New Yorker
Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in the prelapsarian era before social media—or before smartphones, or the Internet—there was a time when journalists were trusted. Back then,…
A Cancer-Causing Virus Hiding in Millions of Americans
Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to the hospital. Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J., had spent the previous week in…
Elon Musk’s Latest Terrifying Foray Into British Politics
For the past week, British public life has reverberated with the impact of Elon Musk’s tweets—percussive, repetitive, basically vile—calling for the overthrow of the elected government and weaponizing a national scandal relating to the rape of young girls in impoverished…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 9th
“I mean, it’s not really new anymore and it sure as hell isn’t happy, but you too, I guess.”
The Role of a PCB Stiffener in Wearable Electronics
PCB Stiffener in Wearable Electronics PCBs are subject to mechanical stress during manufacturing, assembly, and use. Stiffeners strengthen the circuit boards to resist bending or warping and prevent damage. They also enhance component support, which minimizes stress on solder joints…
Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. After nearly a decade as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has resigned from office. His stepping down…
Tracking the Threats to German Democracy
In December, the German government—a coalition led by Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats—lost a no-confidence vote. Elections will be held next month. Scholz came to power after the sixteen-year reign of Angela Merkel, but has become unpopular amid a stagnant economy—one…
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Abandon Fact-Checking
In today’s newsletter, new research on the dangers of ultra-processed food. But, first, the head of the magazine’s fact-checking department on Meta’s decision to stop checking facts. Plus: Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / Getty Fergus McIntoshHead research editor The news…
How Does the Bending Radius Affect Flex PCB Production?
Bending Radius Affect Flex PCB Production The bending radius is the minimum amount of curvature that the flex PCB can sustain before suffering damage to its copper. It is an important factor that must be considered during the design phase…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 6th
“Fine, you travelled for pleasure. I’m asking why you’re coming back.”
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to begin enacting the anti-immigrant agenda at the center of his campaign the moment he takes office: mass deportations, a crackdown on people “pouring up through Mexico and other places,” even the elimination of birthright…
Kanak Kapur Reads “Prophecy” | The New Yorker
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Kanak Kapur reads her story “Prophecy,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at…
Writing as Transformation | The New Yorker
It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 2nd
“It’s post-vacation burnout. We’ll have them back to normal, everyday work burnout in no time.”
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 1st
“I think we should switch gears and have a group screaming session.”
Reading for the New Year
Illustration by Daniel Jurman The Best Films of 2024 The year’s strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a global medium. Our film critic Justin Chang explains the thinking behind his list of the year’s best. “With one exception,…
Lawrence Wright Remembers Jimmy Carter
In today’s newsletter, a look at Jimmy Carter’s life, and then: Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, near their home in Plains, in 2018.Photograph by Matt McClain / The Washington Post / Getty Remembering a Visit to Jimmy Carter in…
Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary | The New Yorker
On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White House to watch the installation of thirty-two solar water-heating panels. “A generation from now,” he told them,…
The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds
A while ago, I searched for a beard trimmer in my bedroom. I spent probably forty-five minutes looking in every likely location at least twice, and every unlikely location at least once. I swore up a storm; the trimmer never…
Refinding James Baldwin | The New Yorker
The text that weighed on him at the time of his arrival to Turkey was his novel “Another Country,” then unfinished. The turbulence of civil-rights America, too. Baldwin is said to have come to the residence of Engin Cezzar, a…
The Unstoppable Rise of the State Symbol
If your New Year’s resolution is to stop obsessively reading post-election analyses, then perhaps you would welcome another way of understanding these United States. What do Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia have in common? Not…
Hua Hsu on the Costs of Spotify
In today’s newsletter, a deep dive into how the streaming service upended our listening habits, and then: File-sharing may have anarchist roots, but Spotify’s C.E.O. and co-founder, Daniel Ek, seems more interested in turning us into captive, passive consumers.Illustration by…
The Holiday Crossword: Friday, December 27, 2024
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The Weird New Normal of Donald Trump in 2024
On Christmas Day, Donald Trump issued his traditional holiday greeting. Posting on Truth Social, the social-media site created to serve as a platform for both his personal enrichment and his political aggrandizement, he reprised his threats to reclaim the Panama…
The Holiday Crossword: Thursday, December 26, 2024
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Dobby Gibson Reads Diane Seuss
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph courtesy Zoe Prinds-Flash Dobby Gibson joins Kevin Young to read “I have slept in many places, for…
Trump Won—Get Over It, Charlie Brown!
Open on a tidy suburban street rendered melancholic by snowfall. Bouncy yet melancholic jazz piano plays. Charlie Brown and Linus rest their arms on a sturdy yet melancholic brick wall. CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with…
The State of the Spy Drama
From the daily newsletter: Inkoo Kang reviews new espionage shows. Plus: an amateur U.F.O. hunter; the choreography of Kyle Abraham; and an early Annie Proulx story.
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2024. The magazine’s writers also made their way through many other books—novels they had missed upon publication, long-out-of-print essay…
The New “Nosferatu” Drains the Life from Its Predecessor
Robert Eggers’s remake of the German director F. W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic, “Nosferatu,” may be presumptuous, but it’s not cynical. Murnau’s film, a silent, is an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”—an unauthorized one, which led to a lawsuit from…
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be closer to that goal than at any…
Why Watch the Los Angeles Lakers?
On Thursday, J. J. Redick, the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, was asked about the N.B.A.’s decline in ratings, a topic that has led to hand-wringing in basketball circles. Ratings of N.B.A. games on ESPN were down twenty-eight per…
“The Leper,” by Lee Chang-dong
The prosecutor spoke without emotion: “Your father’s been charged with espionage. Spying under orders from the North Korean puppet regime.”
The G.O.P.’s Elon Musk Problem
For almost a decade, conservatives have insisted that we should take Donald Trump seriously, not literally. But how seriously should we take Elon Musk? Musk, who funnelled more than two hundred and seventy million dollars into Trump’s Presidential campaign, has…
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which she appeared to promote Tesla’s new A.I. robot, Optimus. In a video on X, captioned “Meet my new…
“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
Not long into “The Brutalist,” the director Brady Corbet plunges us into darkness—a darkness that, although neither formless nor void, marks the film as a creation story. Deep in the hold of a ship that has just arrived in New…
The Importance of Fiducial Marks in SMT Assembly
Fiducial Marks in SMT Assembly In the world of Smt assembly, fiducial marks are a critical part of ensuring that every component is placed accurately. Typically circular or square in shape, they are used as reference points for the machine…
Can You Hand Solder Components For PCB Manufacturing Assembly?
Hand Solder Components For PCB Manufacturing Assembly PCB assembly is the process of inserting components and soldering them to a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The most common types of PCBs are surface mount technology (SMT) and through-hole technology (THT). Both…
“A Complete Unknown” Shears Off Vital Details in the Life of a Colossal, Complicated Artist
One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on December 25th, simplifies Bob Dylan’s early professional life and dilutes its furies. To a certain extent, it hardly matters: Dylan…
How the U.S. Can Learn from Its Policy Failures During the Arab Spring
As a first step, Ford told me, the U.S. should begin where it has the most clout: the Kurdish forces who control northeastern Syria. The Kurds, operating under the name Syrian Democratic Forces, have worked closely with U.S. military and…
The “Nickel Boys” Director RaMell Ross on Making the Most Haunting Scene
RaMell Ross walks us through a pivotal scene in his début fiction feature, “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of the novel by Colson Whitehead. Ross has spent years honing his skills as a visual artist, teacher, and documentary filmmaker, and his…
What are the key steps in PCB prototype design?
key steps in PCB prototype design The process of designing a PCB prototype involves several key steps, each crucial for ensuring that the final product will meet the intended requirements and function properly. A PCB prototype is a preliminary version…
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2024
The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick—my boss—likes to say that what we do at the magazine is “weird.” What he means is that it can be hard to convey The New Yorker’s essence in an elevator pitch or…
Introducing the Cartoons & Puzzles Issue
In today’s newsletter, Anthony Lane on a life-changing meal. But first, the editors behind this week’s Cartoons & Puzzles Issue share a holiday feast of gags and games. Plus: Liz Maynes-Aminzade | Emma AllenPuzzles and games editor | Cartoon editor…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 16th
“People prefer your traditional surveillance to the drones.”
The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon
A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon. Houston is nicknamed…
Food Review: Three Exceptional Panettones
When it comes to the Italian holiday loaf, there’s magnificence and there’s stultifying disappointment, with little in between.
The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change
The nation of Vanuatu consists of eighty-three islands arrayed in the shape of a shaggy “Y” in the South Pacific. Some of the islands are deserted; some have glorious white beaches, and some active volcanoes. Vanuatu has fewer people than…
Have the Democrats Become the Party of the Élites?
Why did Kamala Harris lose the election? So glad you asked. Pull up a chair—actually, no need to sit, because the answer is so simple that it can be summed up in a few seconds. The main problem was the…
The Ultimate Gift Guide | The New Yorker
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, December 13th
“Apparently, my mother’s upgrading the holiday newsletter to a paid Substack.”
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, December 12th
“Which destinations are also shifting to fascism, so I can respond to their jabs by laughing at their hypocrisy?”
Remembering Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)
So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the Shed. Maybe you did, too? It’s been a while, but I’ve been hesitating to write: I’m still processing. Branagh is certainly meant to be the draw at…
The Crossword: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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The Cinema of Female Desire
From the daily newsletter: “Babygirl” and the return of the erotic thriller. Plus: the acquittal of Daniel Penny; Michael Schulman on the best performances of 2024; and Rashid Johnson’s metamorphosis.
Monopoly: A.I. Edition! | The New Yorker
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Are Blanket Pardons for Officials on Donald Trump’s Target List a Good Idea?
This past Wednesday, Politico reported that members of the Biden Administration are considering offering pardons to a number of current and former members of the government who may find themselves unfairly prosecuted by the incoming President. Donald Trump has promised…
Restaurant Review: Borgo Is Worth the Trip to Manhattan
If you’re in the bar, or in the main dining room just beyond it, you might miss the kitchen’s wood-burning oven. It’s used to cook, among other things, the “focaccia Borgo,” which is not the lofty, bubbly slab you might…
What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America
As you know, the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare, fifty-year-old Brian Thompson, was murdered on the street in midtown Manhattan, on Wednesday morning, twenty minutes before sunrise. He was in town for an investors’ convention, and had worked for UnitedHealthcare for more…
A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Home Birth
A paradox of giving birth is that you are irrefutably there—no one has ever been more there!—and yet not there at all. In all but one of Shannon’s images that portray a woman in the throes of labor, her eyes…
The Vibrant Abandon of Barbara Hannigan
Jane BuaBua covers classical music for Goings On. It is the dream of many a musician to become a big enough star that their name comes to mind with any mention of their art form. But for someone to actually…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, December 5, 2024
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The Other MAGA President | The New Yorker
In today’s newsletter, Jon Lee Anderson reports on the slash-and-burn austerity measures in Argentina that have earned admiration from Trump acolytes. Plus: Javier Milei Wages War on Argentina’s Government The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to…
How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime
In a stunning offensive that appeared to catch the regime of Bashar al-Assad off guard, opposition forces took over much of the Syrian city of Aleppo last week, and began moving on the city of Hama, another major urban center….
Joe Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Further Undermines His Legacy
For the first seven months of 2024, in that long period before Joe Biden was finally forced to reckon with both the realities of his diminished capacities and popularity, an essential question to ask the aging President was how he…
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker
After the recent revelation that Pete Hegseth had secretly paid a financial settlement to a woman who had accused him of raping her in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump stood by his choice of Hegseth to become the next Secretary of…
Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Charlotte Stouvenot Ayşegül Savaş joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Abduction,” by Tessa Hadley, which was…
Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term
Charles Dickens, a journalist of such Victorian energies that he managed to write some fiction on the side, was a keen observer of human vanities. Of a minor figure in “Our Mutual Friend,” he wrote, “Mr. Podsnap was well to…
A Bahraini Photographer Returns Home
Unexpected juxtapositions like these appear across the photographer Ali Al Shehabi’s series “As I Lay Between Two Seas,” which documents the contours of everyday life in Bahrain. Taken over the course of three years, from 2020 to 2023, the photographs…
Life Among the Bears in California
In today’s newsletter, reporting on an animal crisis in Lake Tahoe. And then: Wildfires, overdevelopment, and easy access to garbage have brought Tahoe’s bears into increasingly close contact with their human neighbors. One local described a bear as “a five-hundred-pound…
Looking Back on a Fallen Life in “Oh, Canada”
The resurgence, in the past decade, of Paul Schrader as one of the most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary movie directors is part of a bigger trend: the self-reinvention of Hollywood auteurs as independent filmmakers. Since 2010, such directors as Martin…
Has Bitcoin’s Elusive Creator Finally Been Unmasked?
In a subsequent series of text exchanges, Hoback told me, “Peter was the only person who tried to dissuade me from doing this. He said, ‘Satoshi doesn’t want to be found—leave him alone.’ ” Once or twice, Todd’s own name had…
A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
If you were a new parent in 2006, you might have stumbled across a lengthy Amazon review of Gerber’s Tender Harvest Sweet Potato Baby Food entitled “Mmm-Mmm Good.” The review, which gives the product five stars, begins with a description…
Has the Robotics Revolution Arrived?
In today’s newsletter, James Somers on how robots learn. And then: “This is the year that people really realized that you can build general-purpose robots,” Carolina Parada, the leader of the robotics team at Google DeepMind, said recently.Illustration by Tameem…
How Texas Created a Women’s Health Crisis
In today’s newsletter, reporting on the deteriorating condition of women’s health care in Texas. And then: Dr. Tony Ogburn helped build a residency program in an underserved area. After Roe was overturned, the program collapsed.Photographs by Christopher Lee for The…
Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie
In your story for this week’s issue, “Paris Friend,” an aspiring writer living in Beijing, Li Mo, makes a friend on the Internet named Li Lu, who claims to be studying literature in Paris. When Li Mo enlists an acquaintance…
“Paris Friend,” by Shuang Xuetao
So you get on well? he said. You could say that, I said. You could say that, for a while now, she’s been my only reason to go on living.
The Rise of 4B in the Wake of Donald Trump’s Reëlection
Last week, here in Seoul, I was trying to digest the aftermath of the election when I began to notice that my American peers were looking this way, in search of guidance from South Korea. On TikTok, X, and Instagram,…
Conner O’Malley Is the Bard of the Manosphere
Hark, the manosphere! In the days following the Presidential election, the word suddenly seemed to be on everyone’s lips. Comprising a loose consortium of highly influential, extremely online, and mostly young, white, and right-leaning male podcasters, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers,…
The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0
That was fast. Barely two weeks after winning reëlection, Donald Trump has already so thoroughly owned the news cycle that I’m not sure anyone even recalls that Joe Biden is still President. (It was his eighty-second birthday on Wednesday, by…
“Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers,” Reviewed
If you remember anything about this painting, may it be that the dog’s name is Noble. The black poodle in the bottom left greets us as a silhouette with a few shiny parts: teeth, eye, damp nose, pink tongue. The…
What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The New Yorker staff writers Dexter Filkins and Clare Malone join Tyler Foggatt to examine Donald Trump’s appointments…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 20th
“I want to be in the moment, just not this moment.”
Why Do We Talk This Way?
Just before the election, I went to see a play. It was staged for a small group, was about ninety minutes long, and was followed by a Q. & A. For all that time, the audience sat quietly, respectful and…
Rafael Nadal’s Last Stand | The New Yorker
Rafael Nadal is afraid of the dark. He has an intense fear of storms. He is afraid of animals, including dogs. (“I doubt their intentions,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Rafa.”) He doesn’t like to swim in deep water, even…
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due”
The author reads his story from the November 25, 2024, issue of the magazine.
R.F.K., Jr.,’s Next Move
From the daily newsletter: Clare Malone on R.F.K., Jr.,’s health crusade. Plus: more on Trump’s extreme Cabinet; the naïveté of post-election despair; and the gripping drama of “Say Nothing.”
The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority
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 in-box. American voters have elected a President with broadly, overtly authoritarian aims….
The Most Extreme Cabinet Ever
Joe Biden, once again, seems to be cursed with awful timing. On Wednesday morning, in an awkward photo op meant to underscore his adherence to old-fashioned constitutional principles, like the peaceful transfer of power, the forty-sixth President welcomed Donald Trump…
Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The second Trump Administration might dramatically reshape the foundations of the federal government for decades to come. Meanwhile,…
Career Fair, Class of 2028
Corporate JugglerAre you a go-getter? Go get a corporate job! The position actually used to be six different jobs, but time is money, and if you want money you’re going to have to sacrifice all of your time. So strap…
A Republican Focus on the Family
In today’s newsletter, what pro-life means now. And then: Post-Dobbs, social conservatives are shifting their rhetoric away from abortion.Illustration by Keith Negley The New Pro-Life Playbook Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant. “Republicans have just…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 12th
”I know it’s early, but it makes me believe we’ll make it to Christmas.”
“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it. The two genres converge to startling effect in “Emilia Pérez,” a Mexico-set extravaganza, by the veteran French director…
The Cleveland Cavaliers Are Dialed In
“I like building little machines,” the Cleveland Cavaliers’ center Jarrett Allen once told a local reporter. He was describing the soil-humidity reader he’d crafted one weekend so that he could know when to water his plants. He grew up taking…
Restaurant Review: Bridges | The New Yorker
Bridges is situated in Chinatown, in the former home of Hop Shing, a restaurant that served affordable, no-frills Guangdong-style dim sum from 1973 until it shuttered during the early months of the pandemic. In 2023, when Lawrence and his business…
Canvassing for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania
As several friends and I knocked on the front doors of registered Democrats’ homes around Allentown, Pennsylvania, the weekend before the election, and in Northeast Philadelphia on Election Day, there were moments that felt emblematic. The white couple whose toddler,…
It Can Happen Here: Reckoning with Donald Trump’s 2024 Election Victory
On the morning after Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, in 2016, the White House was a funereal place. For weeks, Barack Obama and his inner circle had worried about Hillary Clinton’s campaign—the failure to visit crucial…
Donald Trump’s Reëlection, and America’s Future
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 in-box. In the end, Donald Trump’s rhetoric of another stolen election, and…
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” Transcends the Holiday-Movie Genre
It wasn’t on my list of likely occurrences that a nostalgic and sentimental holiday movie would provide some of the year’s sharpest characterizations on film and also boast a strikingly original narrative form. But this paradoxical blend turns out to…
The Deep Rot Revealed by Trump’s Return to Power
Thought Experiment No. 1 Imagine a baseball stadium. Fill it with twenty thousand Americans. Require Democrats to wear blue and Republicans red. At a podium at second base, have a person make a speech about, say, immigration. Soon enough, fights…
What is PTH in circuit board assembly?
PTH in circuit board assembly A jiggling component or a loose screw can affect the functionality of a circuit board, so PCB assembly must be done carefully and accurately. Fortunately, automation can help reduce costs and human error at scale….
Can Direct Democracy Save Abortion Rights?
In the first Presidential race since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the American electorate appeared to stake out two seemingly irreconcilable positions. Voters gave a mandate to Donald Trump, who appointed half of the conservative supermajority that abolished…
What certifications do flexible printed circuit manufacturers need?
certifications do flexible printed circuit manufacturers need Flexible Printed Circuits (FPCs) play a critical role in modern electronics, serving applications in industries ranging from consumer electronics and automotive to aerospace and medical devices. Given the importance of these circuits in…
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Jean Hanff Korelitz’s All-Time Favorite Sequels
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of nine novels, including “The Latecomer” and “You Should Have Known” (upon which “The Undoing,” the HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, is based). Her latest book, “The Sequel,” is a follow-up…
Election 2024: Live Presidential Results Map | Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris | Republicans Win the Senate
One of the most tumultuous Presidential campaigns in U.S. history remained unresolved in the early hours after Election Day. Votes in critical states were still being tallied in the race between Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump,…
Even Losing May Not Stop Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance
Barely more than a week ago, it seemed as though the Washington political class and their big-money counterparts in New York had all but written off Kamala Harris, on the basis of what, exactly, I was never sure, given the…
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 4th
“I don’t want to know. My stress level is high enough as it is.”
The United Charms of Baseball
Let us now take a respite from the cleaving political moment to praise famous men in slightly more convivial division. The World Series has just been contested between those old baseball rivals, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles…
The Influence of Sedona Prince
At twenty-four years old, Sedona Prince is starting her seventh year of college basketball, but she has only played in seventy games. Last year, her first at Texas Christian University, she averaged roughly twenty points, ten rebounds, and three blocks,…
How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board
On the morning of October 1st, Janice Johnston, a mild-mannered former ob-gyn in her early seventies, was sitting in the back of a crowded courtroom in downtown Atlanta, taking notes on an iPad. She wore an orange skirt suit and…
Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Photograph by Roberto Ricciuti / Getty Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,”…
A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife’s Unfathomable Act
Patrick Clancy’s wife killed their children during a postpartum mental-health crisis. Prosecutors describe a clear-headed scheme, but Clancy says, “I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick.”
The Joy of New Americans
At ceremonies in Arizona, hundreds of people were naturalized, and many prepared to vote.
In “Juror #2,” Clint Eastwood Judges the System Harshly
It’s commonplace to acknowledge Clint Eastwood as one of the most distinctive and original political filmmakers. What’s surprising about his new film, “Juror #2,” is that the politics it brings to life is essentially, and forcefully, anti-political. It’s a brisk…
The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutter, which sold to the Times in 2016, made money by driving its visitors to retail Web sites like Amazon or Best Buy, taking a small…
Why the Democrats Can’t Sell Bidenomics
In today’s newsletter, how Joe Biden came to guide the largest economic overhaul since the New Deal, and why it seems to have been completely overlooked. Plus: The Administration has passed legislation spending trillions of dollars on manufacturing and infrastructure…
Who is J. D. Vance?
From the daily newsletter: Benjamin-Wallace Wells on the V.P. candidate. Plus: Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally; the Obamas campaign for Kamala Harris; and the rebellion of a fruitless apple tree.
Daily Cartoon: Monday, October 28th
“Sometimes I think we’ve got it bad, but thank goodness we’re not candy broccoli.”
The Obamas Campaign for Kamala Harris
Obama devoted time in his speech to Harris, too, with whom he has some things in common (“this convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible,” he had…
On a Newly Translated Story by Yukio Mishima
The story “From the Wilderness” by Yukio Mishima was written and published in Japanese in 1966, but wasn’t translated into English until now. It will be included in a new collection, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes: and Other Stories,” which…
Baseball Is for the Losers
Angell, Gammons, and I now rode the elevator. In the Boston clubhouse, a crowd of reporters surrounded Buckner’s locker, waiting. Cruel jokes were already being worked up. (Question: What do Bill Buckner and Michael Jackson have in common? Answer: They…
Watch the 2024 New Yorker Festival
The 2024 New Yorker Festival is under way! For the twenty-fifth year, leading artists, actors, writers, politicians, and thinkers have gathered for a dynamic weekend of conversations, performances, and more in New York City, hosted by the magazine’s writers and…
“Conclave” Is a Mild Thriller About a Tense Papal Election
A reformist Pope who boldly leads the Catholic Church into controversial changes should be played by an actor of commanding presence. In “Conclave,” there is such a Pope—he’s seen early in the film and he’s the very cause of the…
What’s the Matter with Young Male Voters?
What is wrong with young men? In recent weeks, many liberal outlets have been puzzling over polling results, some of which show that men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are leaving the Democratic Party. These stories, many of…
Donald Trump and the F-Word
Donald Trump is closing crazy. Does it matter? For the historical record, let it be noted that, with less than two weeks until his third and likely final Presidential election, Trump in recent days has talked about Arnold Palmer’s penis…
The Mini Crossword: Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Can We Spot Foreign Meddling in Our Elections?
In today’s newsletter, understanding the true threats to election integrity, and then: China, Iran, and Russia are the prime manipulators of U.S. political discourse.Illustration by Ben Wiseman The U.S. Spies Who Warn About Election Interference A group of intelligence officials…