THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Kenton Nelson’s “Early Morning” – Opening hours.

The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons

The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand. By Benjamin Wallace-Well

Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart

The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” By Rebecca Mead

Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. By Rivka Galchen

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Edel Rodriguez’s “Mayor Mamdani”

The Mamdani Era Begins

His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

Dick Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism

For years before taking office, the former Vice-President appeared less dogmatic than he was.

The Dishy Operatics of Lily Allen’s Breakup Album

On “West End Girl,” all the gritty bits are there: messages with a husband’s mistress, the discovery of a cache of sex toys.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Sudden Shower’ by Sergio-Garcia Sanchez.

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about. By James Somers

Voting Rights and Immigration Under Attack

The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause. By Jelani Cobb

Mobsters We Have Seen on High

The jewel heist at the Louvre reminded Brooklynites of the time, in 1952, when two bejewelled crowns were swiped from a beloved local church—the one with a Mob boss on the ceiling. By Susan Mulcahy