The New Yorker

June 23, 2025

Letters from Our Readers

Readers respond to Kathryn Schulz’s review of “Melting Point,” Lauren Michele Jackson on a new biography of Mark Twain, Diego Lasarte on com...

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June 23, 2025

“South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day”

“The comfort in the smell of bacon in the morning / is mostly burning fat & salt, but the taste is sweet / as the part of the pig that store...

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June 23, 2025

The DOGEfather Part II

Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his...

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June 23, 2025

Bach’s Colossus

Pygmalion’s visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.

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June 23, 2025

Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.

Pro sports have long seemed like the closest thing we have to a true meritocracy. But maybe not anymore.

The New Yorker

June 23, 2025

A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical a...

The New Yorker

June 23, 2025

Are Young People Having Enough Sex?

Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite.

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June 23, 2025

Mark Hamill Considers the Odds

The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in “The Life of Chuck.” At MoMath, he studied fractals a...

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June 23, 2025

What Zohran Mamdani Got Right About Running for Mayor

The thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist has created a movement. Can it overcome Andrew Cuomo’s power?

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June 23, 2025

Why Passing the Stablecoin GENIUS Act Might Not Be So Smart

Critics say enacting the pro-crypto legislation will make the financial system less safe and less stable—and further enrich Donald Trump.

The New Yorker

June 23, 2025

Amazon’s New James Bond

The secretary Miss Moneypenny will now be known as Miss Money One Hundred Billion Dollars Money Money Money. Or Alexa.

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June 22, 2025

With His Eyes on History, Benjamin Netanyahu Aims for Political Resurrection

There is no overestimating the triumphalism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s circle, but the cascading effects of the war being waged on Iran...

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June 22, 2025

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in Iran

Why even a successful attack might do less to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions than a diplomatic deal would have.

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June 22, 2025

John McPhee on His Childhood Appearance in The New Yorker

The little boy in the piece was definitely me, and the moment I saw it I developed a lifelong affection for the magazine.

The New Yorker

June 22, 2025

The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles

As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

The New Yorker

June 22, 2025

Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”

The author reads his story from the June 30, 2025, issue of the magazine.

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June 22, 2025

The Caitlin Clark Rules

The basketball star’s domination on the court is one of the most inspiring things in all of sports. Does it represent a revolution or evolut...

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June 22, 2025

Donald Trump Bombs Iran, and America Waits

The U.S. strikes were unprecedented, and the repercussions are impossible to predict.

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June 21, 2025

Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed?

President Donald Trump’s decision on whether to attack Iran may prove to be the most consequential of his Presidency yet.

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June 21, 2025

Could New York City’s Next Comptroller Be a Punk Rocker?

Justin Brannan, a city councilman from Bay Ridge running in the Democratic primary, used to play guitar for the hardcore bands Indecision an...

The New Yorker

June 21, 2025

Why I Wear the Turban

The headwear is burdened by stereotypes—but it can carry, too, the pleasures of self-invention.

The New Yorker

June 21, 2025

The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Ande...

The New Yorker

June 21, 2025

The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story

A pair of recent films, Celine Song’s “Materialists” and Sean Baker’s “Anora,” turn the fairy tale on its head, with mixed results.

The New Yorker

June 21, 2025

Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis

It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save...

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June 21, 2025

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June 20, 2025

Was a Right to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Possible?

The Supreme Court was unlikely to strike down a state ban on some pediatric medical treatments, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy...

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June 20, 2025

Why “Jaws” Still Has Bite

From the daily newsletter: The classic shark-attack movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released fifty years ago today.

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June 20, 2025

Cartoon Highlights: 1976-1985

A collection of classic gags from the sixth decade of The New Yorker.

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June 20, 2025

Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist

Kogonada’s first feature, starring Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, and Parker Posey, highlights the inspirational power of the architecture f...

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June 20, 2025

America’s Oligarch Problem

How did the United States join Russia and China as an oligarchy? The staff writer Evan Osnos chronicles the shift in his new book, “The Have...

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June 20, 2025

Why Israel Struck Iran First

The Israeli American writer Yossi Klein Halevi is vehemently opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, but he makes a case for why Netanyahu was right...

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June 20, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 20th

“Hopefully we can have a productive dialogue, now that the Americans are sitting at the kids’ negotiating table.”

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June 20, 2025

The Mini Crossword: Friday, June 20, 2025

Artist Sherman or model Crawford: five letters.

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June 20, 2025

Tales from the Abyss

It’s only a big hole—nothing to worry about.

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June 20, 2025

Is the Anti-Trump Opposition Getting Its #Resistance Back?

How the movement might cohere—if it does at all—remains an open question.

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June 20, 2025

The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus

Also: Bill McKibben’s nature-doc picks, the full-bodied soul of Baby Rose, new work from Pam Tanowitz, and more.

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June 20, 2025

“F1” is a Well-Tooled Engine of Entertainment

The destination of this comeback narrative starring Brad Pitt may be predictable, but Joseph Kosinski’s direction ensures thrillingly tight...

The New Yorker

June 19, 2025

The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Green morsels in matar paneer: four letters.

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June 19, 2025

The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery

When a “purchasing group” won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambli...

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June 19, 2025

Why We Turn Grief Into Art

In dark times, many novelists, poets, and performers turn to their work to process and express what they’re feeling. What do these texts bor...

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June 19, 2025

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation

As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underes...

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June 19, 2025

“Familiar Touch” Is an Exquisitely Fragmentary Portrait of Memory Loss

In Sarah Friedland’s début feature, Kathleen Chalfant plays an octogenarian with dementia adapting to the constraints and possibilities of a...

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June 19, 2025

Poems on Returning to New York After Some Years Away

No judgment, but is everyone high all the time now?

The New Yorker

June 19, 2025

The Rise And Fall of DOGE

Without Elon Musk, what is the Department of Government Efficiency going to do?

The New Yorker

June 18, 2025

Absolutely No King

In case anyone had any doubt.

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June 18, 2025

Why the Trump Administration Is Handcuffing Politicians

From the daily newsletter: the detention of Brad Lander in New York is just the latest example of the Trump crackdown on elected officials.

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June 18, 2025

Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand

The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.

The New Yorker

June 18, 2025

Donald Trump’s No-Strategy Strategy on Iran

How the President could drag the U.S. into a new war in the Middle East.

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June 18, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 18th

“Does attending a Bruce Springsteen concert count as political activism now?”

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June 18, 2025

What “Outrageous” Misses About the Mitford Sisters

The television series gives period-drama treatment to one of the most scandalous families of twentieth-century Europe.