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The Old Man
After becoming a father at fifty, Jelani Cobb reflects on the rising average age of first-time American dads.
Today’s Mix
How Should We Address Political Violence?
A Minnesota lawmaker has been killed in what is being called a “politically motivated assassination.” From 2024: Treating political violence as a contagion could help safeguard the future of American 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.
After Attacking Iran, Israel Girds for What’s Next
Crisis has become the norm in Israel, but this time feels different. Is it a victory, or the start of a new war?
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.
Tyrese Haliburton Has Worn Me Down
The Indiana Pacers star is corny, he’s awkward, and he’s thrilling.
The Lede
A daily column on what you need to know.
There Are No Perfect Choices in the New York Mayoral Race
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani are leading the Democratic field. Even they seem nervous.
Why Netanyahu Decided to Strike Iran Now
The editor-in-chief of Haaretz on how President Trump enabled Israel to carry out an attack years in the making.
Inside the Activist Groups Resisting ICE
As raids spread beyond L.A., organizers, lawyers, and volunteers in Orange County are attempting to slow down arrests and deportations.
What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Is Not O.K.
V.A. insiders describe themselves as miserable—and they worry that the Trump Administration will do long-term damage to the agency.
Looking for the National Guard in Los Angeles
President Trump’s assertions that federal troops have saved the city from destruction did not appear to reflect reality.
The Critics
“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures
Celine Song’s romantic tale, starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, offers thrilling dialogue but some puzzling silences.
Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening
How “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” helped the musician find a purpose beyond hippie-culture stardom.
How the Meanest Genre Got Nice
Hardcore was once brutish and insular. Has Turnstile made it popular?
Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off
“Call Me Izzy” and “Angry Alan” feature two stars up close and personal.
Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail
In “Constellation,” the photographer’s largest-ever show in New York, images linger in the strange space between intention and effect.
Our Romance with Jane Austen
The author’s novels are critiques of Regency England’s high society. Why, two hundred and fifty years after her birth, does her work resonate so strongly with modern audiences?
The Best Books We Read This Week
A visually luxurious graphic novel; the story of the men behind the world’s most famous movie studio; a nuanced account of providing end-of-life care to a loved one; and more.
Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala
The photographer Luis Corzo returns to the scene of his own kidnapping.
Goings On
Recommendations on what to read, eat, watch, listen to, and more.
The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
Marina Harss on a revival of Taylor’s timeless and timely pieces from the sixties at the Joyce. Plus: Alexandra Schwartz on her favorite Jane Austen movie adaptations, and more from our critics.
Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing
Helen Rosner visits the new restaurant from the chef duo Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh.
Addison Rae’s Path from TikTok to the Pop Charts
Amanda Petrusich reviews the artist’s new album, “Addison,” in which she presents herself as a gently debauched girl next door.
A Tour of Fantastical Worlds
Katherine Rundell, the best-selling author of “Impossible Creatures,” on four noteworthy works set in imaginative realms.
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
The legend discusses her new album, her complicated relationship to performing, and recording a duet with Bob Dylan decades after he first asked her to collaborate.
Dept. of Hoopla
Day of the dad.
Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the “Murderbot” series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness.
Our Columnists
Play It Again, Charles Burnett
Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that came after, or that never came to be?
Donald Trump Enters His World Cup Era
The upcoming tournament, hosted in North America for the first time in three decades, reflects the President’s nativist and transactional approach to foreign affairs.
How a Family Toy Business Is Fighting Donald Trump’s Tariffs
Despite securing an important court victory against the Administration, the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg knows that his battle with the White House is far from over.
What Gaza Needs Now
My family is starving. My neighbors are dying. I’m compelled to share these injustices because they need to stop.
Ideas
Why Do Doctors Write?
In one sense, doctors have always been writers, penning case reports since antiquity. Literary writing by doctors is a more modern development.
What the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Did to Women
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.
What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime
A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.
The Radical Development of a New Painkiller
The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s something effective.
The Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom
Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
How I Learned to Become an Intimacy Coördinator
At a sex-choreography workshop, a writer discovered a world of Instant Chemistry exercises, penis pouches, and nudity riders to train for Hollywood’s most controversial job.
Puzzles & Games
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In Case You Missed It
Fiction from the Archive
Louise Erdrich
Selected Stories
The Stone
“The woman had not named the stone. She had thought that naming the stone would be an insult to its ineffable gravity.”The Flower
“Wolfred asked the girl to tell him her name. He asked in words, he asked in signs, but she wouldn’t speak.”The Reptile Garden
“I locked myself in my room, which I soon realized was a garden for lizards, geckos, garter snakes, and some exotics, like a hooded cobra.”The Years of My Birth
“She had called herself, simply, my mother. Not my birth mother—that careful, distancing term—but my mother.”
Selected Stories
The Stone
The Flower
The Reptile Garden
The Years of My Birth
The Talk of the Town
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