We’re Living in an Age of Floods
Climate change has made the most dangerous floods more frequent, and we are simply not prepared to handle what’s to come, John Seabrook reports. Plus:...
Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high heat across...
The Man Behind Trump’s Tariffs Strategy
“I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, has forged a tight relationship with the President, and...
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York....
A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students
In April, U.S. District Judge William Young, who sits in Boston, made a procedural ruling from the bench that seemed to catch the lawyers in...
What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means
Nothing to see here! CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show,” an institution so basic to the texture of our rapidly thinning common entertainment culture that...
The Price of Occupation | The New Yorker
On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank,...
“The Chartreuse,” by Mona Awad
She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering....
How Rembrandt Saw Esther | The New Yorker
Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even...
Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza
Five months ago, when I was on a medical mission in northern Gaza, a Palestinian cardiologist named Marwan Sultan showed me what was left of...
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson
When Mr. Remnick asked me to write a seven-hundred-and-twenty-five-word Take on Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 Profile of Johnny Carson, I said, “My honor, cher David.” (New...
Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The Washington Roundtable’s...
The Shame of “Alligator Alcatraz”
From the daily newsletter: the immigration reporter Jonathan Blitzer on the Florida detention facility....
Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith
Delaney’s style or, more accurately, styles, developed in the course of a long apprenticeship that can read like a novelization of the desperate life of...
How Elon Musk’s Chatbot Turned Evil
“Grok styling itself as a genocidal dictator is the kind of flaw that should make the entire A.I. industry take pause.” What Elon Musk’s rogue...
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the...
A New Agnès Varda Exhibition Is an Extension of Her Life’s Work
When Varda shot portraits on location, her practice was both observational and interventionist. She took subjects around town in her car in search of suitably...
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 15th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings....
The Future of Warfare Comes to America
“While the future of warfare is being invented in places like Ukraine, U.S. officials are looking on with a growing sense of urgency.” A report...
Wimbledon in the Age of Sincaraz
In tennis, it is not enough to win; you have to keep winning. It is not even enough to be the greatest of all time;...