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📢 How Tina Fey Wrote the Most Realistic—and Optimistic—Marriage on TV

The New Yorker

How Tina Fey Wrote the Most Realistic—and Optimistic—Marriage on TV

On “30 Rock,” Tina Fey pioneered the kind of heteroskepticism that’s more prevalent than ever now. With “The Four Seasons,” she’s explo...

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📢 Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 15th

The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 15th

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📢 Fight Night at the White House

The New Yorker

Fight Night at the White House

To celebrate his eightieth birthday—and the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth—President Trump invited the country to watch U.F.C. fighters be...

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📢 American Pokeberry

The New Yorker

“American Pokeberry”

“Thrashers and cardinals dart / through the brush, through / the season.”

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📢 Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble

The New Yorker

Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble

The boom-and-bust cycle has always been a feature of capitalism. Today, we are living through yet another speculative boom—this time, the star is...

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📢 The Knicks Take the Series—Seize the Joy!

The New Yorker

The Knicks Take the Series—Seize the Joy!

A fan’s late-night notes.

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📢 Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General

The New Yorker

Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General

In a Senate that took its constitutional role seriously, Blanche would not win confirmation a second time.

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📢 How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?

The New Yorker

How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?

History helps explain the particular faith that now rules our religious marketplace.

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📢 Will Americans Start to Care About the World Cup Now?

The New Yorker

Will Americans Start to Care About the World Cup Now?

The 2026 World Cup’s approach has felt strangely muted, and the U.S. team has had a rough few years. Then the games began.

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📢 The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

The New Yorker

Life in the Thatcher Era, Along Britain’s Longest Thoroughfare

In Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” life along a major British thoroughfare reveals fissures in the nation’s identity.

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📢 Kate Millett Disappears

The New Yorker

Kate Millett Disappears

The writer and artist’s 1972 installation “Terminal Piece” shows us the failure of language in the face of violence.

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📢 The World Cup and the Changing Psyche of the Haitian Diaspora

The New Yorker

The World Cup and the Changing Psyche of the Haitian Diaspora

For Les Grenadiers and their fans, the game will be about the confrontation of a certain psychological displacement.

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📢 Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace

The New Yorker

Iran Can Hold America Hostage in Either War or Peace

Iran has demonstrated its ability to hold out, sometimes for years, for what it wants, while the U.S., with its two- and four-year election cycles,...

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📢 Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Losing a Son in Gaza

The New Yorker

Rachel Goldberg-Polin on Losing a Son in Gaza

The most visible spokesperson for the families of Israeli hostages in Gaza discusses her memoir, “When We See You Again,” and the unending pain...

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📢 Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback”

The New Yorker

Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback”

New Yorkers unite in hope.

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📢 Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 12th

The New Yorker

Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 12th

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📢 Are Americans Too Old?

The New Yorker

Do Older Americans Have Too Much Power?

In “Gerontocracy in America,” the historian Samuel Moyn argues that the central conflict of our era is between the young and the elderly.

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📢 How the Dangerous Rise in Anti-Immigration Politics Went Mainstream

The New Yorker

How the Dangerous Rise in Anti-Immigration Politics Went Mainstream

Violent unrest after a stabbing in Northern Ireland showed the extent to which the far right has taken hold in the U.K., as well as in Europe and t...

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📢 “Mudville,” Reviewed: An Atlanta Filmmaker’s Expansive D.I.Y. Family Drama

The New Yorker

“Mudville,” Reviewed: An Atlanta Filmmaker’s Expansive D.I.Y. Family Drama

Adam Pinney made his new movie for an estimated five hundred dollars, and cast his own wife and kids.

npub1s7ze...9adh 3 weeks ago

📢 Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis

The New Yorker

Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis

The nation’s official advocate for children’s books says most of them are “crud.” But matters of literary quality don’t explain why kids ...