The New Yorker
SUBWAY VIGILANTE
Revisiting the New York shooting that defined an era
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CONTAGION
A Broadway revival of Tracy Letts's “Bug.”
6 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CONQUESTS
\"Magellan\" and \"The Testament of Ann Lee.\"
6 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
D.C. POSTCARD WATCH YOUR STEP
A complaint for negligence, recently filed in the District of Columbia, describes what it calls “The Longstanding Hole in the Sidewalk in front of the IRS building.” The document offers a capsule history of the six-inch-deep, eight-inch-wide circular void in the tax agency’s sidewalk. Around September of 2011, the hole was filled with cement. By the summer of 2015, the cement had been removed. Orange cones subsequently appeared around the hole. That November, D.C.’s Department of Transportation determined that the hole needed to be filled, “contingent upon funding and weather.” A month later, the department referred the hole-filling job to the feds. Cones remained around the hole, off and on, through 2017. Years passed. The cones disappeared, along with Presidential Administrations and the Bed Bath & Beyond franchise. The hole in the sidewalk remained.
2 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
BOOTS ON THE GROUND
There aren't many moments in Donald Trump's political career that could be called highlights.
4 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
THE PICTURES PERIOD CORRECT
When Miyako Bellizzi was designing the costumes for “Marty Supreme,” the new Josh Safdie movie, she spent a lot of time thinking about Timothée Chalamet’s underwear. His character, Marty, a Ping-Pong champ from the Lower East Side, might have worn a one-piece union suit, the conventional male undergarment of 1952, when the movie is set. But boxers and briefs were just coming into style, and although most of Marty’s shabby wardrobe was likely a few years old, Bellizzi opted to put him in the newfangled undies. She explained her logic: “It’s kind of like how our grandmothers aren’t wearing thongs, but we are.” (She added, “And, to be honest, the union suit is not the greatest look, right?”)
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
MOM AND DAD: THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Mom, Dad, thanks for being on time this year. Dad, I can see by your T-shirt that it was a challenge. So you've already exceeded expectations.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
HERE TO THERE DEPT. V.I.P. IN CHAINS
Whatever else you think about invading a country and capturing its President, there’s no getting around the inconvenience of imprisoning Nicolás Maduro in New York City. Maduro is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, near Industry City, in Brooklyn.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY: HEY THERE!
How WhatsApp took over the global conversation.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
POWER TRIP
As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has become the unlikely executor of Trump's disruptive foreign policy.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
UNDER THREAT
The Danes were America's most loyal ally. Now they feel targeted—and terrified.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CALL OF THE WILD
When calamity strikes in America's busiest national park, who comes to the rescue?
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
Kim's Game
It still feels strange not to start her day with the first milking.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote's “In Cold Blood”
In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson asked Truman Capote about capital punishment. Capote had written, in unsettling detail, about the hanging of two killers, Dale Hickock and Perry Smith. Carson said, of the death penalty, “As long as the people don't have to see it, they seem to be all for it”; if executions occurred “in the public square,” Americans might stop doing them. Capote wasn't so sure. His hands laced together professorially, he murmured, in his baby-talk drawl, “Human nature is so peculiar that, really, millions of people would watch it and get some sort of vicarious sensation.”
3 min |
January 19, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Battle over supportive housing erupts in affluent Santa Monica
It was a scene that left residents of this pricey, palm-lined Santa Monica neighborhood flabbergasted.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Naumov's emotional pick highlights strong U.S. team
'We did it': A figure skater in grief clinches first Olympic bid as full roster is revealed.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Migrants, ICE raids dominate governor forums
Candidates for Newsom's job point records, roots as the race comes into focus.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Freshman guards make big impact in Southland
After competing with one another for years, they hold their own vs. stronger players.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
No one's safe from Trump's ICE squad
The shooting deaths of Keith Porter and Renee Good bring that home
4 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
He's the most important athlete in L.A.
Whew. The best nearly went bust.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN WARNS TRUMP AGAINST STRIKES
Iran says it would target U.S. and Israel if they use force in support of protesters.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
A sterling speech by a challenged governor
The most outstanding thing about Gov. Gavin Newsom's final State of the State address last week was that he actually gave it.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal'
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. President Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was removed as Venezuela's leader in a U.S. invasion.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Hamas makes a pledge on Gaza
The militant group says it will dissolve its government, but specifics are unclear.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
THE BARN WHERE HOLLYWOOD WAS BORN
A humble L.A. museum preserves the birthplace of the American film industry
8 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
A moment of humanitarian relief
A concert benefiting Sudan and Gaza aid focuses on empathy, and raises $5.4 million.
3 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
In Altadena, rage and a call for state probe
Residents demand accountability for 19 deaths and epic losses in Black enclave.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
"Godfather' of Chicano art is on exhibit
Artist and author Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill remembers when her father, Emigdio Vasquez, asked her to pose for one of his paintings. She was a teenager and he asked her to remain still and hold a lit cigarette.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
How ABC's 'Rookie' became a hit with teens
The success of a show about a cop in his 40s provides strong evidence of the importance of Tik Tok and other social media
3 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
State's first 2026 measles case is confirmed
Barely more than a week into the new year, the California Department of Public Health confirmed its first measles case of 2026.
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