CULTURE
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“Death by Lightning” Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot
History is littered with examples of the havoc wreaked by politicians’ will to power. No wonder, then, that voters cling…
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The Allure—and the Policing—of Subway Surfing
Are thrill-seeking kids like birds, deterred by metaphorical spikes on the roof? In late October, the M.T.A. did install barriers—vertical…
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage…
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What Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for Mayor Reveals About Being Muslim in America
In the autumn of 2008, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, broke from the Republican…
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Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man”
The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to…
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George Saunders and Zadie Smith Talk with Deborah Treisman
On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor,…
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Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?
The inevitable progress of technology, in other words, makes the technological sublime elusive. And it’s also true that technologies tend…
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Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry’s Teen-Age Dream
Katy Perry is a friend of Bezos and Sánchez and has herself spent time on Koru. In April, she also…
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How Much More Can Federal Workers Take?
What began as a budget impasse has turned into an unprecedented effort to fire federal employees and weaken agencies whose…
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