- The New Yorker·8h ago
Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?
Skip to main contentNewsletterThe LatestNewsBooks & CultureFiction & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazinePuzzles & GamesVideoPodcastsGoings OnShop“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s...
AIApplePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·9h ago
The FBI Director Is MIA
On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and...
PoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·11h ago
The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Donald...
PoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·12h ago
The Art of the Fictional Pop Song
The chart-topping hits you hear in movies can stretch the limits of belief. On the “Mother Mary” soundtrack, Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff capture the real thing. Mitch Therieau writes.
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·12h ago
El retorno de la detención familiar
Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica. Sarah Stillman investiga la difícil situación de las familias migrantes retenidas en el Centro de Procesamiento de Inmigrantes de Dilley, en el sur de Texas.
AIMarketsCryptoAppleSpaceClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·13h ago
The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera
On a recent Friday night in Edinburg, Texas, in a ballroom adorned with hundreds of blue and white flowers, the d.j. at Jimena Sáenz’s quinceañera took the mike and implored guests not to leave just yet. It...
CryptoAppleClimatePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·13h ago
Iran Had a Doomsday Weapon All Along
President Trump has said that he went to war to stop Iran from ever having a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately, the war he launched led Iran to discover that it already had an extremely effective doomsday...
MarketsCryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·14h ago
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Download a Transcript.Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of...
CryptoAppleHealth - The New Yorker·14h ago
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Patrick Radden Keefe, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.
AIApplePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·14h ago
One of These Trump Threats Is Not Like the Others
Twelve hours after Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”—after he’d previously threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages”—the president agreed...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Stratechery·15h ago
2026.16: Servers, Satellites, and Stars
(Amazon) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone....
AIAppleSpaceHealth - The Atlantic·15h ago
Breaking Free From Alex Jones
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Josh Owens, a videographer and the author of a memoir about his years working for Infowars, the...
CryptoAppleClimatePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·16h ago
The First Draft of Cultural History
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Newspapers publish the rough draft of history, as the saying goes. And what’s the rough draft of...
CryptoPolitics - The New Yorker·16h ago
We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-Mail Jobs
Growing up, I had these childlike dreams of being an astronaut, a firefighter, or an N.F.L. player with twenty concussions. But because of my state-school education that my parents paid for with their...
SpaceHealth - The New Yorker·18h ago
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 17th
Skip to main contentNewsletterThe LatestNewsBooks & CultureFiction & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazinePuzzles & GamesVideoPodcastsGoings OnShopApril 17, 2026Cartoon by Polly AdamsDaily HumorThe...
- The Atlantic·18h ago
The Real Crisis of <em>The Pitt</em>
This article contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The Pitt. The first season of The Pitt presented an emergency room brought to the absolute limits of its capabilities, unfolding as 15 hours of...
CryptoSpaceClimateHealth - The Atlantic·19h ago
Photos of the Week: Glacier Performance, Gorilla Birthday, Moon Return
Cherry blossoms in bloom in Japan, preparations for a humanoid-robot half marathon in China, a boisterous water festival in Thailand, a scene from Coachella in California, and much more
SpaceClimate - The Atlantic·21h ago
The Scapegoat Scam
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán, who lost his election in a landslide on Sunday after 16 years in power, presented himself as a defender of Western...
MarketsCryptoPoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws
The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a Catholic liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. Emma Green reports.
AIMarketsCryptoAppleSpaceClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
Our Longing for Inconvenience
Hanif Abdurraqib writes about the CD player, the DVD, the Nintendo and the nuisances of past technologies, even as they have fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times.
AIPoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.April 17, 2026The photographer David...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”
Like many upbeat biographical dramas, “I Swear” begins at the end. A culminating moment of triumph is neatly reverse engineered into a prologue: it’s 2019, and the Scottish activist John Davidson (Robert...
AICryptoClimateHealth - The New Yorker·22h ago
Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy
“The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, features Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding dress and coronation gown, and fashion by designers such as Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies, and Ian Thomas. Rebecca Mead reports.
CryptoPoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·1d ago
America’s Orange Jesus
In her 2023 memoir, “Oath and Honor,” published the year before Donald Trump’s remarkable return from political oblivion, the Republican apostate Liz Cheney describes watching in amazement on January 6, 2021,...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
The Allbirds Pivot Is a Terrible Idea … Right?
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Walk into...
AIMarketsCryptoPoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·1d ago
Donald Trump, Bible-Thumper
Blitt’s KvetchbookMaking the good book great again.By Barry BlittApril 16, 2026Buy New Yorker Cartoons »More Humor and CartoonsPotential slogans for J. D. Vance’s 2028 Presidential campaign.Starter packs for...
Politics - The Atlantic·1d ago
RFK Jr.’s New Normal
Updated at 6:58 p.m. ET on April 16, 2026The White House has reportedly urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to avoid talking about vaccines, but this morning he had no choice. When...
PoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
Hasan Piker has attracted millions of followers across multiple social-media platforms, making him one of the most popular left-wing streamers. He has been the subject of several flattering magazine profiles...
CryptoPoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
The Tyranny of AI Everywhere
I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that my shoes—my comfortable, unfashionable wool shoes—were pivoting to AI. “But you’re a shoe company,” I said. “Just go out of business! Keep your dignity!”My shoes...
- The New Yorker·1d ago
“Mother Mary,” Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, Reviewed
Like David Lowery’s 2017 film “A Ghost Story,” his new film, “Mother Mary,” is a tale of a haunting that’s set mainly in a single location. With “A Ghost Story,” it was one house in Texas; in “Mother Mary,”...
ClimateHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
Trump Voters Are Over It
Tomas Montoya has sold festival foods—funnel cakes, burgers, hot dogs—across the American Southwest for years. But lately, business has been rough. Costs are up, so he’s increased his prices. Employees are...
PoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
On the day I was laid off from the Kennedy Center, I felt a little like Dolley Madison saving the Stuart portrait of Washington before the British sacked the capital. I was the staffer in charge of the...
AIPoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
The Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to Crumble
In the days after Donald Trump won his second term, I called a handful of Hungarian political analysts to ask what the American future might look like. My impulse was not an original one; the analysts had...
PoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
The DNA Fix for Aging
On his son’s fourth birthday, Michael Prescott had his first heart attack. Prescott, who worked as a civil engineer designing bridges in Tennessee, was in his 30s, and until that day, he had appeared to be in...
AIClimatePoliticsHealth - The New Yorker·1d ago
Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran?
A look at Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, Ahmad Vahidi, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Ahmad-Reza Radan, and Mojtaba Khamenei, who are seeking to fill country’s leadership vacuum. Sudarsan Raghavan reports.
MarketsCryptoApplePoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Earlier this year, when I walked into a renovated loft in downtown San Francisco, the couches and tables were littered with flyers advertising an “emotionally intelligent real-time AI coach.” They were for...
AICryptoApple - The New Yorker·1d ago
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, April 16th
Skip to main contentNewsletterThe LatestNewsBooks & CultureFiction & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazinePuzzles & GamesVideoPodcastsGoings OnShopApril 16, 2026“Will you be using my story as a foil...
- The Atlantic·1d ago
Pope James David Vance the First
The Trump administration doesn’t seem to have many rules, but one of them is that once the president picks a fight, his posse must show up to support him, no matter how ill-advised the conflict. And few...
CryptoPoliticsHealth - The Atlantic·1d ago
If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It
One afternoon in the summer of 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his hut near Walden Pond and walked into town to pick up a shoe he was having mended. He was stopped by the local tax collector, who nudged him...
MarketsHealth - The New Yorker·1d ago
“Beef,” “The Drama,” and the New Marriage Plot
Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it.April 16, 2026Illustration by Miguel...
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