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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – AUGUST 4, 2025 PREVIEW

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People sit in the shade on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Chiaroscuro at the Met” – The art of shade.

What to Do When the Supreme Court Rules the Wrong Way

The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning. By Amy Davidson Sorkin

“No Tax on Tips” Is an Industry Plant

Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage. By Eyal Press

Israel’s Zones of Denial

Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming? By David Remnick

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 28, 2025 PREVIEW

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The illustrated cover for the July 28 2025 issue of The New Yorker in which many people are queuing in a line at an airport.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “Journeys” – Crossing the border.

Behind Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Problem

The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.” By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

“Yes, And” for Downsized Federal Workers

A Washington, D.C., improv theatre invited recently laid-off civil servants to a free workshop. The goals: stay adaptable, and maybe even laugh. By Sadie Dingfelder

Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief

How Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, plans to transform government into a money-making enterprise. By Antonia Hitchens

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 7 & 14, 2025 PREVIEW

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The cover for the July 7 14 2025 Fiction Issue of The New Yorker in which a building cleaner hangs from a harness off...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”…

Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution

How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S. By Jeannie Suk Gersen

Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand

The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 30, 2025 PREVIEW

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The cover of the June 30 2025 issue of The New Yorker which features a colorful geometric illustration of the Brooklyn...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 23, 2025): The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”’ – Crossing over the water. By Françoise Mouly Art by Christoph Niemann

Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis

It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts. By David Remnick

The DOGEfather Part II

Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his methods in his art-school days? By Charles Bethea

How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up

The Administration is strong-arming European nations to do more on behalf of their own defense. Is the strategy working? By Joshua Yaffa

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 23, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features David Plunkert’s “On Parade” – Toying with democracy.

President Trump’s Military Games

Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. By Ruth Marcus

New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.”

As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. By Adam Iscoe

What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?

Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 PREVIEW

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A cat sits on a table and knocks over a glass of wine.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See” – It’s good to be a cat. By Françoise Mouly Art by Haruka Aoki

The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing

A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. By Michael Luo

Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience

New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. By Andrew Marantz

A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space

Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. By Michael Schulman

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 9, 2025 PREVIEW

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A winding road in a hilly countryside.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 2, 2025): The latest issue features David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill” – An artist revisits seasons across a lifetime. By Françoise MoulyArt by David Hockney

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon?

As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising. By Rania Abouzeid

Elon Musk Didn’t Blow Up Washington, but He Left Plenty of Damage Behind

The obits for the tech mogul’s time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious. By Susan B. Glasser

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The New Yorker Magazine – May 5, 2025 Preview

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The Statue of Liberty sitting in a prison cell with a hundred tallies behind her to count the days.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 28, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days” – A beacon extinguished.

A Hundred Days of Ineptitude

Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. By David Remnick

A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump

Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace. By Jill Lepore

Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. By Andrew Marantz

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The New Yorker Magazine – April 28, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of a scene near the Picnic House at Prospect Park. Various dogs are running around and playing.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 21, 2025): Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs” – At least some of us are happy.By Françoise MoulyArt by Adrian Tomine

Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical. By Jonathan Blitzer

How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. By Antonia Hitchens

The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump

Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy? By Stephania Taladrid

The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion

Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more.

By Richard Brody, Michael Schulman, Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Brian Seibert, K. Leander Williams, Jane Bua, and Adam Gopnik

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The New Yorker Magazine – April 21, 2025 Preview

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Donald Trump plays with a large globe before popping it.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.

What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

What Comes After D.E.I.?

Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. By Emma Green

How to Survive the A.I. Revolution

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy