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Onward and Upward with Technology

How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?

Video-game engines were designed to mimic the mechanics of the real world. They’re now used in movies, architecture, military simulations, and efforts to build the metaverse.
Dept. of Medicine

How to Die in Good Health

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.
A Reporter Aloft

Are Flying Cars Finally Here?

They have long been a symbol of a future that never came. Now a variety of companies are building them—or something close.
Annals of Sound

What Is Noise?

Sometimes we embrace it, sometimes we hate it—and everything depends on who is making it.

Commentary

Daily Comment

Biden Is the Most Pro-Labor President Since F.D.R. Will It Matter in November?

The President is winning over union leaders, but not necessarily rank-and-file voters.
Daily Comment

The Supreme Court Asks What Enron Has to Do with January 6th—and Trump

The former President notwithstanding, the government’s position in Fischer v. United States is unsettling.
Daily Comment

How to Both-Sides a “Civil War”

In his new film, Alex Garland seems to be trying to have it both ways, using our dire politics as buzzy I.P. while tap-dancing around conversations that might get him in trouble.
Comment

Donald Trump’s Very Busy Court Calendar

The first criminal trial of a former President starts this week. After all the legal posturing, the action will finally get real—that’s the theory, anyway.

Conversations

Q. & A.

How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children: “When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day after tomorrow?”
Q. & A.

Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza

The Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.
Q. & A.

Why Israel’s Approach to Civilian Casualties May Not Affect U.S. Support

An analyst with the International Crisis Group on how strikes are being carried out in Gaza and whether the Biden Administration is ignoring American laws by continuing to provide Netanyahu with military aid.
Q. & A.

Biden’s Increasingly Contradictory Israel Policy

A former State Department official explains the Administration’s sharpening public critique of Israel’s war and simultaneous refusal to “impose a single cost or consequence.”

From Our Columnists

Letter from Biden’s Washington

Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?

The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Donald Trump Did This

On abortion, Arizona, and the 2024 Presidential election.
Our Columnists

Will Historic Job Growth Bring an End to the “Vibecession”?

The Labor Department’s March employment report shows the U.S. economy continuing to power ahead. Yet many voters’ perceptions remain stubbornly negative.

More News

News Desk

The Fate of Israel’s Hostages After Iran’s Rocket Attack

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oversees an increasingly fraught regional confrontation, the families of Hamas captives work to free their loved ones.
News Desk

Israel’s Momentous Decision

After Iran’s dramatic but largely ineffective attack, Benjamin Netanyahu’s response will have tremendous consequences.
Our Local Correspondents

Donald Trump’s Trial of the Century

Manhattan prosecutors have argued that the Stormy Daniels case—the first criminal trial of a former President in American history—is about much more than hush money. And legal experts believe that a conviction is likely.
Daily Comment

The Vatican’s Statement on Gender Is Unsurprising, and a Missed Opportunity

A new document that strives to reconsider matters of human dignity nevertheless echoes Church rhetoric from decades ago.
The Weekend Essay

Is This Israel’s Forever War?

Foreign-policy analysts whose careers were shaped by the war on terror see troubling parallels.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

How a Republican and a Democrat Carved out Exemptions to Texas’s Abortion Ban

Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect some people who need abortions and the doctors who provide them. Plus, a band rehearsal with the songwriter and actor Maya Hawke.
Fault Lines

What Phones Are Doing to Reading

It’s becoming harder, or at least less common, to read the old-fashioned way. But the new ways of reading are not all bad.
Dispatch

Watching the Eclipse from the Highest Mountain in Vermont

People cracked cans of beer and smoked cannabis and popped mushroom gummies and ate smoked-meat sandwiches as totality approached at fifteen hundred miles per hour.