Profiles The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump. January 19, 2026 Weiss, who has faced criticism for the network’s recent coverage of the Trump Administration, told…

The Food Scene A pastry as ubiquitous in New York City as pizza or bagels is getting its turn on the higher end. January 4, 2026 Jamaican patties stuffed into coco bread, at Chef Kwame’s Patty Palace.Photographs by Shawn Michael Jones for The New Yorker You’re reading the Food Scene newsletter,…

Our Far-Flung Correspondents Since Putin invaded Ukraine, the short distance between Nome, Alaska, and Russia seems wider than ever. January 19, 2026 Front Street in Nome, Alaska, a city of thirty-seven hundred residents that is almost as far west as you can go in North America.Photographs by Ash…

Letter from Caracas After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another. January 14, 2026 The city’s holiday season was darkened by the imminent threat of conflict.Illustration by Diego Mallo Months before Christmas, Caracas was…

Books If you laugh at unfunny jokes, raise your hand too quickly, or can’t decide on your favorite color, you may be exhibiting a fawn response. January 12, 2026 According to the psychotherapist Meg Josephson, fawning is alternately a path to self-annihilation and a “subtle superpower” of heightened…

A Critic at Large On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake? January 12, 2026 Was the Goetz incident an inflection point in history, or was it merely a bubble on the surface of…

U.S. Journal In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong. January 12, 2026 Wallace Stegner called reserving the country’s signature landscapes for public enjoyment “the best idea we ever had.”…

Profiles As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe. January 12, 2026 For Rubio, taking down the regimes in Venezuela and Cuba has long been seen as a way of ascending to the White…

Annals of Technology The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there? January 12, 2026 The app carries the feelings of three billion people—and unthinkable power to shape society.Illustration by Jennifer…

The Political Scene The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here? January 5, 2026 Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker of the House, believes that Greene is uniquely in touch with the MAGA base, calling her the “canary in the coal mine”…

The Art World In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. December 22, 2025 “Mauve District” (1966).Art work by Helen Frankenthaler / Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation / MOMA / ARS “Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep,” at the Museum…

A Critic at Large The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward? January 5, 2026 Several new books try to construct a philosophy of sex that goes beyond “yes” and “no.”Illustration by Michelle Mildenberg Lara In 1978, Greta Hibbard was twenty-two and living in…

Fiction Deal-Breaker January 4, 2026 Illustration by Kimberly Elliott Pam is seeing someone, but she’s not talking about it. Of course, her friends know, but she has not told her parents or her sister, Wendy. She would tell her father, Charles, because he doesn’t pry, but then he would tell her…

Profiles Will Pope Leo XIV follow the progressive example of his predecessor or chart a more moderate course? His work in Chicago and Peru may shed light on his approach. January 5, 2026 Since the Second Vatican Council, in the early nineteen-sixties, it has been the pattern that a dynamic,…

The Control of Nature The industry has lost billions of dollars, largely because smoke makes the drink taste like licking an ashtray. Now a team of scientists is chasing a solution. January 5, 2026 Across the West Coast, vintners now fear a bitter, ashy-tasting product.Photograph by Bobby Doherty…

A Place for Sharing Ideas and Stories There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for…

The Lede A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts. December 20, 2025 Photograph by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty On October 26, 1963, just four weeks before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy travelled to Amherst…

Under Review Sarah Ruden aims to return familiar texts to the fresh clay from which they were made. April 28, 2021 As always, but especially when it comes to describing the numinous, the inadequacy of language is not only a problem for readers, but for writers, too.Image from Hulton Archive / Getty…

Open Questions The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. November 14, 2025 Illustration by Josie Norton You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. Recently, my wife was texting with a…

Scott Myers 3 min read· Jul 17, 2019 -- From the 1998 movie The Truman Show, written by Andrew Nichol. Get Scott Myers’s stories in your inbox Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer. Setup: Truman has just come to the ‘end’ of his world and is talking to ‘God’. Here is the script…

4-min read I’ve been through several crises. 1987: Dow crashes 22.6%. It was my first week of my first job after graduating UCLA. A bunch of the analysts went down from the 44th floor to the trading floor on the 17th, at 1251 Avenue of the Americas (Morgan Stanley), to witness what our boss said was…

5-min read Tim Ferriss and Sequoia Capital are encouraging people not to go to SXSW and to adjust for the “black swan event of 2020.” Firms cancelling, and minimizing their burn, is understandable. While catching corona would be bad, worse would be passing it to someone vulnerable. I put my trust in…

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Sia Furler is looking for love. This being 2018, that means using apps like Tinder and Bumble. She doesn’t use her real name, but she does post real photos of herself on the apps. Not that anyone recognizes her; although she’s scored hits like “Chandelier” (1.9 billion YouTube views and counting)…

4-min read The worst thing about a cataclysmic weather event, or a single-stranded-RNA virus that wipes out the species is … it might impact the economy. Take my eyes, but don’t let the NASDAQ breach 8,000! That’s how it feels, no? In a capitalist society, good or bad, the first words out of Lester…

4-min read My book agent, Jim Levine, gave me a piece of parenting advice that has stuck with me — find moments of engagement. As I have no real manly skills (fishing, building fences) to bond with my kids over, I opt for the cheap route and establish intimacy with my sons by breaking rules. I…

Let’s disentangle the prized day of casual clothing from its colonial connotations, writes historian Katie Pickles. As another school year starts up around the country, getting into uniforms is compulsory for most pupils. It’s only the occasional mufti day that brings the chance to ditch the…

Peekaboo, I see you. Photo: Neon What’s in a house? Much of the shock and thrill in Bong Joon Ho’s genre-flexible movie Parasite — nominated for six Oscars including Best Production Design — hinges on the fictional house built by a fictional architect owned by the wealthy Park family. When the…

Concert FM is to be stripped down in favour of a new station for youth, even as the government prepares bigger plans for restructure. Toby Manhire on the mood inside and outside the national broadcaster. No one seriously thought things could stay as they were. RNZ’s music outputs had been subject to…

Email is one of those things that’s just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with themselves for not owning a…

Happy Thoughts: Here are the things proven to make you happier: *** Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here . *** What’s the secret to a head full of happy thoughts? Time to…

This is Jack: And this is Today: Jack and Today are dating. The relationship is going all right and Jack’s reasonably happy, but for a while now, Jack has known that the Today he’s with is not the one . Sure, he and Today have fun sometimes, but all too often, Jack feels like he’s dating a mundane…

5-min read Jack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, built an empire that birthed films including Casablanca , Batman, and The Shining . Warner built a 13,600-sq-ft Georgian-style mansion in the 1930s, supposedly, and unlikely, with the wood floor that Napoleon was standing on when he proposed to…

November 11, 2019, 10:00 AM RICHES FROM RAGS Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade. The two-story cutting room at Star Wipers fills with a soft, mechanical hum. About 20 middle-aged women and a handful of men stand at workstations encircled by 6-foot-tall plastic bins full of used…