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The New Yorker Magazine – April 14, 2025 Preview

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 7, 2025): The latest issue features Richard McGuire’s “Zooming In” – Peering at our relationship to technology. By Françoise MoulyArt by Richard McGuire

At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere. By David Remnick

Protecting the National Airspace, Post-DOGE

For nearly seventy years, the F.A.A.’s experimental safety lab near Atlantic City has run turbulence tests, set fire to seat cushions, and dropped crash-test dummies. Will it survive Elon Musk? By Robert Sullivan

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user. By Kyle Chayka

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The New Yorker Magazine – April 7, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of Pete Hegseth J. D. Vance Tulsi Gabbard and others holding cellphones while riding on a missile.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 31, 2025): Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices” – The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.

The Greater Scandal of Signalgate

The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted. By David Remnick

The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance

Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will John Thune, the new Majority Leader, let them? By David D. Kirkpatrick

Mixed Signals

Who says there are no historical precedents for accidentally including a journalist on top-secret war plans? By Anthony Lane

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 31, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of a parent carrying a stroller with a child seated in it down a flight of stairs into the subway.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 24, 2025): The latest issue features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Upstairs, Downstairs” – A tale of two schlepps.

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics? By Manvir Singh

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate by Sean Willi

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment

With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again. By Elizabeth Kolbert

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 24, 2025 Preview

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A young woman holds an oversized teacup.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” – The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.

The Battle for the Bros

Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back? By Andrew Marantz

How an American Radical Reinvented Back-Yard Gardening

Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But her secrets went beyond the garden plot. By Jill Lepore

Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines

The former Vanity Fair editor recalls a time when the expense accounts were limitless, the photo shoots were lavish, and the stakes seemed high. What else has been lost? By Nathan Heller

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 17, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of chefs and staff preparing food in a kitchen.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 10, 2025): The latest issue cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Masterpiece” – Delicious forms of innovation.

The Unchecked Authority of Greg Abbott

The Texas governor gained national attention by busing migrants to Democratic cities. Jonathan Blitzer reports on how he’s paving the way for President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. By Jonathan Blitzer

Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science

Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress. By Dhruv Khullar

How the Red Scare Reshaped American Politics

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded—and from how it came to an end? By Beverly Gage

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 10, 2025 Preview

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 3, 2025): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Vitamin N.Y.C.” – Bright spots amid gloomy winter months.

Trump’s Disgrace

While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. By David Remnick

Menopause Is Having a Moment

If you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. So why does every generation think it’s the first to have hot flashes? By Rebecca Mead

Will Harvard Bend or Break?

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education. By Nathan Heller

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview

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The Founding Fathers are escorted out of their offices.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (February 24, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!” – The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis.

The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan

The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. By Jonathan Blitzer

Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas

The Population Implosion

Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

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The New Yorker Magazine – February 17, 2025

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (February 10, 2025): The latest issue features Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred – The magazine celebrates its centenary.

The Editorial Battles That Made The New Yorker

The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth anniversary, we’re breaking them all. By Jill Lepore

Onward and Upward

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became. By David Remnick

The “Intactivists” Campaigning Against the Cut

New York’s biggest foreskin fans take their anti-circumcision message to the streets. By Diego Lasarte

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 3, 2025 PREVIEW

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A woman stands on a roof as pigeons take flight around her.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 27, 2025): The latest issue features Kadir Nelson’s “Messenger” – The city’s ubiquitous winged creatures can be an unexpected source of inspiration.

Trump’s Attempt to Redefine America

The effect of the President’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to be an American citizen—is guaranteed. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno

A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history. By M. R. O’Connor

A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons

Mazen al-Hamada fled Syria to reveal the regime’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back. By Jon Lee Anderson

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The New Yorker Magazine – January 27, 2025 Preview

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (January 20, 2025): The latest issue features…

Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.

Firefighters address a burning landscape.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide. By Elizabeth Kolbert