Caleb Hammer’s Humiliation Economy
The New Yorkerby Brady Brickner-Wood20d ago
When Caleb Hammer, a thirty-one-year-old personal-finance YouTuber, gets particularly exasperated, his voice enters a shrill upper register.
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top 92%The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison
The New Yorkerby Evan Gershkovich20d ago
In the library of Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, my fellow-inmates and I could choose from great novelists such as Charlotte Brontë and Marcel Proust or existentialists such as Samuel Beckett and...
More Sunshine with Joey Arias and Basil Twist
The New Yorkerby Sarah Larson20d ago
Recently, at the HERE Arts Center, near SoHo, the puppeteer Basil Twist, the performance artist Joey Arias, and six unseen puppeteers (“They’re wearing black velvet, hood on, like ninjas,” Twist...
Detecting Notes of . . . Citi Field?
The New Yorkerby Arthur Holland Michel20d ago
On a moonless Friday night at Citi Field, Ryan Goydos, one half of the popular social-media account known as SuperVinoBros, stood at a security entrance reserved for staff, press, mascots, players...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The New Yorkerby Eyal Press20d ago
On March 7, 2025, Celia Cohen, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, was finishing up a meeting at 26 Federal Plaza, in lower Manhattan, when she learned...
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?
The New Yorkerby Peter Hessler20d ago
In the valley where I live, along a quiet stretch of the Uncompahgre River, in southwestern Colorado, there is only one paved road, and, like most people around here, I don’t drive it south without...
How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures
The New Yorkerby Anthony Lane20d ago
The first thing you notice about the film director Paweł Pawlikowski is that he looks like a movie star. This is an unusual state of affairs.
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker20d ago
The Radiance, by Ayad Akhtar (Summit). The narrator of this form-bending novel is a man who shares the author’s name and profession, and who, at the story’s outset, is the victim of a hit-and-run.
Letters from Our Readers
The New Yorkerby The New Yorker20d ago
Things of Nature I was intrigued by M. R. O’Connor’s article about wildland firefighters who leap out of airplanes (“Going Up in Smoke,” September 7th).
How America Became Antifascist
The New Yorkerby Beverly Gage20d ago
In fiction, spoiler alerts exist to protect the reader experience, premised on the idea that knowing a story’s outcome will reduce momentum and suspense.
The Next Front in Trump’s War Against Immigrants
The New Republicby Felipe De La Hoz20d ago
In the Trump administration’s avalanche of immigration animosity, it can be hard to miss some of the more technical changes to immigration policy, buried as they are in the broader news of masked...
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
The New Republicby Kate Aronoff20d ago
Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down? Elementary school students fresh off an Earth Day lesson would probably suggest saving the tree.
The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
The New Republicby Michael Tomasky20d ago
About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up.
The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury
The New Republicby Scott Bradfield20d ago
Across the last half-century or so, Doonesbury has been one of those rare institutions that could always be counted on—even while the political world it described seemed to be run by people who...
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Wiredby Kate Taylor20d ago
In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of brand-new coworkers will be entering the workforce. You’ll learn their names and recognize their profile pictures.
Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team - NASA
NASAby Linda E. Grimm20d ago
The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of science fiction, but with NASA launching increasingly complex missions deeper into space, human-robot collaboration...
160-million-year-old proteins show surprising power against superbugs
ScienceDaily20d ago
160-million-year-old proteins show surprising power against superbugs Scientists revived 160-million-year-old antimicrobial proteins that could inspire new weapons against antibiotic-resistant...
South Korea Demands Apology From Ukraine Over Disclosure Of North Korean PoW Transfer
World Newsby Kyu-seok Shim; Rishabh Jaiswal20d ago
Sept 27 (Reuters) - South Korea’s presidential office demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to...
Kenya in ‘advanced’ talks with US on critical minerals deal: minister
Semaforby Alexis Akwagyiram20d ago
The News Talks over a deal that would see the US help develop Kenya’s critical minerals processing industry are at a “very advanced” stage, the African country’s mining minister told Semafor, as...
Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Wiredby Sophia Chen20d ago
From Suno composing uncanny elevator music to Tilly Norwood delivering customer-service-inflected one-liners, artificial intelligence has rattled creative industries.