The New Yorker
Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress's Photo from September 11th
It's all there in this photograph of first responders reduced to helpless bystanders in a wilderness of pulverized concrete. We cannot see what they see, but in their attitude of stricken astonishment we feel it—the recognition of the unrecognizable that confronted us on that Tuesday morning in September. We see them standing in that ashen pall, like the last survivors of a lost time, and it comes only as an afterthought that they appear not to notice the one other living thing we know was there—the photographer, my friend and colleague Gilles Peress.
1 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
COMMENT ILL ADVISED
Last month, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, demanded that Susan Monarez, the newly confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fire senior officials at her agency and accept wholesale the recommendations of a handpicked panel of vaccine advisers whom he had installed. Monarez refused, and Kennedy asked for her resignation, just weeks after saying that he had “full confidence” in her “unimpeachable scientific credentials.”
4 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
THERE'S THE RUB
At the World Championship in Massage, no body is left behind.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
THE CHAMELEON
Bohuslav Martinů explored one musical form after another.
5 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
TAKE ME BACK
Nostalgic cravings at the Minnesota State Fair.
7 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
Voyagers!
They drove two hours before the third stop.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
TALKING CURE
Bella Freud's podcast, \"Fashion Neurosis,\" was born of obsession-and childhood trauma.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
BOT MEETS GIRL
Playing the field with a pack of A.I. companions.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
BACK TO SCHOOL DEPT.DUMPSTER DIVING
Each year, in late May, the custodial crew at N.Y.U. conducts a lightning sweep of the campus's twentythree dorms in preparation for the abbreviated summer session.
3 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
CAVITY DEPT.CHEWY
Earlier this year, the identical twins Adeev and Ezra Potash, who are from Omaha, Nebraska, were named that state’s first-ever Composer Laureates.
4 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
ENEMIES OF THE STATE
Inside the Trump Administration's mass-deportation program.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
COMEDY OF ERRORS
Sabrina Carpenter's carnal jokes.
5 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
CALLAS, GALAS
In a dressing room near the amphitheatre on Little Island, a makeup artist (James Kaliardos, standing) was pouring his attention and a wealth of beauty supplies onto a countertenor (Anthony Roth Costanzo, seated). “I chose a little of Lady Gaga’s makeup, a little of Rihanna's,” Kaliardos told Costanzo. “We have to bring the divas with us. From diva to diva.” Costanzo replied, “It’s communicable.”
3 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
GULF
This summer, on his Scottish golf course, the President played the golf of Scotland, but now that he's back on this continent he can play the golf of Mexico.
3 min |
September 15, 2025
The New Yorker
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARLOWE
Spy, murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day, the transgressive Elizabethan dramatist is catnip to biographers.
10+ min |
September 15, 2025
Los Angeles Times
FAIR Plan keeps denying smoke damage claims
Insurer is doing so despite a court loss and sanctioning by state regulators.
4 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Overspending, shoddy work in past fire cleanups alleged at trial
Exposing years-old concerns about California's resilience to wildfires, a government whistleblower and other witnesses in a recent state trial alleged that cleanup operations after some of the largest fires in state history were plagued by mismanagement and overspending — and that toxic contamination was at times left behind in local communities.
9 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Japanese premier will resign after historic election defeat
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday that he will resign, after growing calls from within his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July’s parliamentary election.
1 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Redistricting unites and stirs up state GOP
California’s minority party enters survival mode, talks strategy to defeat Proposition 50.
5 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Tech whiz is first millennial saint; 2nd Italian also canonized
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Roman Catholic Church's first millennial saint, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname “God's influencer.”
3 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
L.A. may require landlords to keep their rentals cool
City Council will weigh limiting indoor temperatures to 82 degrees or below.
4 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Cordless hairstyling tools OK only as carry-on
TSA bans devices with lithium batteries from flight cargo area over their fire risk.
2 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
How Trump is weaponizing the government
President Trump, once a casino owner and always a man in search of his next deal, is fond of a poker analogy when sizing up partners and adversaries.
5 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
One out from a no-no somehow too much to ask
Yamamoto tosses 8 2/3 innings of no-hit ball, then Dodgers implode in epic walk-off loss.
5 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
ICE raid strains South Korea ties
Seoul secures release of Hyundai workers in U.S., but crackdown spurs trade concerns.
4 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Chaos as a wave of COVID hits U.S.
Seniors in some parts of nation say they are being denied vaccines amid Trump policies.
6 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Student activist warning of Al's reach unnerves tech bros for good reasons
Trump’s dinner with execs leaves little hope of meaningful regulation
6 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Did son kill three people in East L.A. with father's help?
Community's fear made it difficult to prove guilt
6 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'Conjuring: Last Rites' is nail in coffin
It's a sluggish farewell for the franchise and its protagonists, Ed and Lorraine Warren.
3 min |
September 08, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Taylor sparks winning rally for Angels
He draws a walk from A’s reliever in eighth inning, and d’Arnaud follows up with ground-rule double.
2 min |