The New Yorker
Is the Hispanic Red Wave Receding?
In the Rio Grande Valley, bordering Mexico, ICE raids have emptied construction sites and restaurants. Recently turned Republicans are beginning to have doubts. Rachel Monroe reports.
Today’s Mix
The War on Gaza’s Children
Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.
Sheldon Whitehouse’s Three-Hundredth Climate Warning
The senator’s wake-up calls about government inaction take on a new urgency in Trump 2.0.
The Economic Consequences of the Big Odious Bill
The passage of a highly regressive budget-busting measure demonstrates anew that Donald Trump’s populism is a dangerous sham.
What The New Yorker Was Reading in 1925
Touted in our first issue: a love-crazed soldier, scheming septuagenarians, an Anglo-French chastity plot, and a suspected nymphomaniac with a taste for fast cars.
Richard Price’s Street Life
The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of city life.
The Lede
A daily column on what you need to know.
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution
How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S.
The Grim State of Trans Health Care
With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for trans children and adults continue to be dismantled at the state level.
The Supreme Court Sides with Trump Against the Judiciary
Its ruling lets the President temporarily revoke birthright citizenship—and enforce other unconstitutional executive orders without fear of being blocked by “rogue judges.”
ICE Detains a Respected Immigrant Journalist
Mario Guevara became a target of the law-enforcement and immigration agencies he covered. Others may be next.
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery
The NATO secretary-general goes all in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”
Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk
Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran.
The Fiction Issue
“The Silence”
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
Grace Paley’s “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age”
Zadie Smith on the New Yorker story that inspired her story “The Silence.”
“Jubilee”
I was simply happy to inhabit my birthplace, my janmasthan: this almost unbearably meaningful fact that linked me to every red letter box and double-decker bus.
Mavis Gallant’s “Voices Lost in Snow”
Jhumpa Lahiri on the New Yorker story that inspired her story “Jubilee.”
Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
In recent years, an irresistibly intuitive hypothesis has both salved and fuelled parental anxieties: it’s the phones.
The Critics
The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”
Decades after “28 Days Later,” the director Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland return to—and advance—a frighteningly effective franchise.
Lorde Strips Down to Start Over
On “Virgin,” the pop star examines the myths that make up her identity.
Curzio Malaparte’s Shock Tactics
The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s horrors.
The Argentinean Comic Strip That Galvanized a Generation
How the politically aware six-year-old heroine of “Mafalda” became an international phenomenon.
The Met’s Luminous New Rockefeller Wing Still Casts Some Shadows
A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all of it belongs in New York.
“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation
The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact.
The Best Books We Read This Week
A Palestinian American’s affecting memoir that meditates on the contradictions defining her bicultural background; an elegant travelogue that asks whether a natural entity can be regarded as a living thing; a comic strip addressing global issues from the perspective of a precocious and unrelentingly curious six-year-old girl; and more.
Our Columnists
The Tragedy of the Diddy Trial
After being acquitted of the charges that would have put him away for life, Sean Combs likely has a plan to work his troubles into a narrative of redemption.
Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, and Posting as Politics
In an era that rewards online authenticity, political leaders are becoming the new influencers-in-chief.
What the Iran Strikes Reveal About MAGA
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The movement has survived all sorts of political stress tests, but there’s one schism that could actually pose a problem.
The Sincaraz Era Is Tennis Reborn
In Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the sport has not only its next great rivalry but a moment that highlights everything the sport can be.
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How to Save a Dog
For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
Ideas
Sex Bomb
Confronted with a Vegas buffet of carnality, Generation Z appears to be losing its appetite.
Dead Reckoning
Supporters saw the Mütter Museum’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield.
Heir Ball
Pro sports have long seemed like the closest thing we have to a true meritocracy. But maybe not anymore.
Something in the Water
Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. Could lead exposure have led them to violent crime?
Finding a Family of Boys
Leaving Brooklyn for a new life as a college student in Manhattan was in itself an act of becoming.
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
Puzzles & Games
Take a break and play.
In Case You Missed It
Your Hip Surgery, My Headache
Getting Hugh home after his hip replacement involved a thick cushion and a car with legroom. “Ow!” he said whenever I tried to help. “You’re making everything worse!”
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