The New Yorker
THE DESCENDANTS
How a spike in second-generation players is changing the N.B.A.
10+ min |
June 30, 2025
The New Yorker
WHEN TO QUIT
Haim sets off on a rampage.
7 min |
June 30, 2025
The New Yorker
HARDCORE DEPT. PAST LIVES
A candidate meets voters wherever they can. The other day, Justin Brannan, a burly Democratic city councilman from Bay Ridge who's running to be the Party's nominee for city comptroller, surprised one constituent by opening a papered-over door at a vacant retail space in Tribeca.
3 min |
June 30, 2025
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WRECKAGE
“F1,” “Sorry, Baby.”
6 min |
June 30, 2025
The New Yorker
TRUTH AND BEAUTY DEPT. NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS
On the morning of the New York premiére of the new sci-fi movie “The Life of Chuck,” in which Mark Hamill plays a grizzled, alcoholic, math-loving accountant, the actor visited MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics, near Madison Square Park. Hamill has accurately described his look in the film—white hair, walrus mustache, sweater vest—as “Geppetto.”
3 min |
June 30, 2025
The New Yorker
THE DOGEFATHER PART II
Who will help lead the Department of Government Efficiency now that Elon Musk has left the scene? News reports have mentioned Joe Gebbia, a Tesla board member and a co-founder of Airbnb, as a possible replacement. Gebbia is forty-three. Like Musk—his close friend—he is a billionaire, a resident of Austin, Texas, and the rumored recipient of a hair transplant. Gebbia formally announced his political conversion on X in January, posting that, after years of supporting Democrats, he finally “did [his] own research” and concluded that Donald Trump “deeply cares about our
9 min |
June 30, 2025
The New Yorker
SEEDS OF DOUBT
Can agricultural innovation outpace our growing appetites?
10+ min |
June 30, 2025
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EARLY WARNINGS
New technologies promise to catch more cancers sooner. But such screening can pose hidden hazards.
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
The New Yorker
TARIFF MEN
President Trump’s McKinley fixation and the demise of liberal internationalism.
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
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SPECIAL PEOPLE
What we talk about when we talk about genius.
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
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SOLO FLIGHTS
Jean Smart in “Call Me Izzy” and John Krasinski in ‘Angry Alan.”
5 min |
June 23, 2025
The New Yorker
TRUMP'S TO-UNDO LIST
Abolish amendments. Makes Constitution look weak. I read Constitution. I read passages, I read areas, chapters. Nobody reads Constitution more than me! Nobody even knows what the Fourteenth means. Let's go back to first draft!
2 min |
June 23, 2025
The New Yorker
LADIES' NIGHT
The Portland bar that screens only women's sports.
7 min |
June 23, 2025
The New Yorker
Molly Fischer on Mark Singer's “Mom Overboard!”
There are plenty of old magazine stories I love, but I also love old magazines themselves.
3 min |
June 23, 2025
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HELP WANTED
The history of advice columns.
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
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MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS
What did Elon Musk accomplish at the Department of Government Efficiency?
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
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HEADPHONES ON
How Addison Rae went from TikTok to the pop charts.
5 min |
June 23, 2025
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ANY HUMAN HEART
Rossi's Auto Repair and Full Service Gas had been there for as long as Maureen had been a resident of this New Jersey town.
10+ min |
June 23, 2025
Archaeology
THE HOME OF THE WEATHER GOD
In northern Anatolia, archaeologists have discovered the source of Hittite royal power
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD CITY
Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia's colonial capital
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
BOUND FOR HEAVEN
During excavations of a Byzantine monastery in 2017 just north of Jerusalem's Old City, a team led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Zubair 'Adawi and Kfir Arbiv discovered an unusual burial in a crypt beneath the altar of the complex's church.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Birds of a Feather
Intriguing rock art in the Four Corners reveals how the Basketmaker people drew inspiration from ducks 1,500 years ago
8 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL BRAIN
When most people envision the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they think of the casts of their bodies made by pouring plaster into voids left by their decaying corpses. Yet not all the physical remains of those who perished in the cataclysm decayed. In one case, a remarkable transformation occurred—a man’s brain turned to glass.
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
In Search of Lost Pharaohs
Anubis Mountain conceals the tombs of an obscure Egyptian dynasty
3 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SOLDIERS OF ILL FORTUNE
The Schmalkaldic War, which began in 1546 and lasted less than a year, pitted the forces of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V (reigned 1519-1556) against the Schmalkaldic League, a Protestant alliance formed by German principalities and cities within the empire.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
SAINTS ALIVE
Since 2019, archaeologists have been excavating in Berlin's oldest square, known as the Molkenmarkt, or Whey Market.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
Setting Sail for Valhalla
Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Archaeology
ITALY'S GARDEN OF MONSTERS
Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone
10 min |
July/August 2025
The New Yorker
WITHOUT BORDERS
A Palestinian doctor in Israel treats people on both sides of the conflict.
10+ min |
June 16, 2025
The New Yorker
VISITING DIGNITARY OLD HAUNTS
When Stephen Colbert landed in New Zealand in 2019, his ride from the airport was Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister.
3 min |