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April 21, 2025

The Crossword: Monday, April 21, 2025

Sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry: twelve letters.

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April 21, 2025

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 21st

“Great Scott! The past is no longer distinguishable from the future.”

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April 21, 2025

Cartoons from the April 28, 2025, Issue

Funny drawings from this week’s magazine.

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April 21, 2025

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

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April 21, 2025

How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.

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April 21, 2025

The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump

Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy?

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April 21, 2025

How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He’s Born?

In “Second Life,” the journalist Amanda Hess navigates the stratified landscape of contemporary reproductive technology.

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April 21, 2025

Play Laugh Lines No. 16: The Office, Part 2

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

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April 21, 2025

Why Harvard Can Afford to Stand Up to Donald Trump

The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian President.

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April 21, 2025

The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar

A great number of Americans wish to optimize their diets—and their lives.

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April 21, 2025

Curb Alert! Junk Lugging for Art’s Sake

Ser Serpas, a trash-art “assemblagist” who has been in the Whitney Biennial, takes her pick of New York’s litter, ahead of a new show at MOM...

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April 21, 2025

New York to Ford: NOT DEAD

After a screening of “Drop Dead City,” a new documentary on N.Y.C.’s 1975 fiscal crisis, a crew of old union stalwarts—sanitation workers, B...

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April 21, 2025

Billy Idol: Still in Leather, Still Hot in the City

With a big year ahead, the British rocker visited his old West Village haunts and remembered the bourbon-soaked night when Mick and Keith di...

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April 21, 2025

Activism for Introverts! Copying the Constitution

Every month at the Old Stone House, in Brooklyn, citizens are invited to find consolation in troubled times by writing out the nation’s foun...

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April 21, 2025

Our University’s Commitment to You

To students, faculty, and staff who may be wondering, Will our endowment face law-enforcement raids as it goes about its business, accruing...

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April 21, 2025

Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?

The series’ most exhilarating episode yet ended with the brutal murder of a beloved character. Where does the show go from here?

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April 20, 2025

Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far...

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April 20, 2025

Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak

At Danny & Coop’s, the actor and director partners with a Philadelphia restaurateur to bring that city’s beloved sandwich to New Yorkers.

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April 20, 2025

Carrie Brownstein on Richard Avedon’s Portrait of Cat Power

The space between the singer and the photographer’s lens is slippery, inaccessible; you’re not sure you were even invited.

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April 19, 2025

Mistaking Mary Magdalene

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approach...

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April 19, 2025

Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World

Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.

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April 19, 2025

Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”?

In Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 crowd-pleaser, two gay couples strike a bargain that turns both Faustian and farcical.

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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

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

The Mini Crossword: Friday, April 18, 2025

Oldest of the main Hawaiian islands: five letters.

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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 onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youss...

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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 Mini Crossword: Thursday, April 17, 2025

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