The New Yorker
Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Sarah Stillman reports.
Today’s Mix
Donald Trump’s Tariffs and the Price of Calm
The view from northern Europe, which, until very recently, had long seen the United States as a land of hope.
What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week
The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it.
The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.
Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?
On their new show, “Paul American,” the controversial influencers try to show a softer side.
Jeff Bridges Is Digging It
The actor and musician discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic.”
The Lede
A daily column on what you need to know.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
The Conservative Legal Advocates Working to Kill Trump’s Tariffs
The New Civil Liberties Alliance is mounting a constitutional challenge to one of the biggest policy questions of our time. Will others follow?
Trump’s Do-Over Presidency
It’s not just tariffs—from ending low-pressure showerheads to pulling troops out of Europe, the President’s second-term obsession is pushing through the unfinished business of his first.
How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook
The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.
The Other Side of Signalgate
The extraordinary security breach elicited amusement and shock. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Donald Trump’s age of fear.
The Critics
“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes
Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism
What’s most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction.
The Miraculous Fate of a Photographer of Miracles
Kate Friend set out to make a series about the places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared. Her pilgrimage took a curious turn.
“The Shrouds” Is a Casket Case—and an Unsettling Vision of Techno-Paranoia
In David Cronenberg’s film, billed as his most personal work, Vincent Cassel plays a grieving husband who has devised a novel way of never letting go.
Regrets, the YouTube Moms Have a Few
The parents who exploit their kids for clicks in Netflix’s “Bad Influence” want you to think they couldn’t have known better.
Gjelina Imports the Fantasy of L.A.
The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.
The Best Books We Read This Week
A novel that explores how we might make meaning of our existence in the face of escalating loss; a provocative study of rivers that celebrates flooding; an elliptical meditation on the nature of reading; and more.
Our Columnists
Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”
The Massachusetts Democrat argues that Trumponomics is wrecking the American economy.
TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization
Global technology companies are becoming table stakes in the struggle to establish whatever new world order is emerging.
The Decimation of American R. & D.
The Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions is forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who count on it.
The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting
Dozens of audience members have lost consciousness watching Eline Arbo’s adaptation of “The Years.” The internet has come to believe that a conspiracy is afoot.
The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right
Alexandre de Moraes’s efforts to fight extremism online have pitted him against Jair Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump.
Ideas
Social Butterfly
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O. says that she wants to give power back to the user.
Environmentalists Are Rethinking Nuclear. Should They?
Some climate activists are giving atomic energy a second look. Should they?
Will A.I. Save the News?
Artificial intelligence could hollow out the media business—but it also has the power to enhance journalism.
The Dire Wolf Is Back
Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next?
That Sad Young Man at the Riviera
“The Great Gatsby,” with its glitzy Jazz Age parties and insatiable American desires, recently turned a hundred. In a winking 1926 Profile, John C. Mosher caught up with the book’s celebrity author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife, Zelda, in France. “All was quiet on the Riviera, and then the Fitzgeralds arrived.”
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