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  1. Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:39:47 -0000

    The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
  2. Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:21:56 -0000

    The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
  3. Trump’s Grand Midterm Convention Finale: ‘I’m a Little Bit Tired of Politics’

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:01:12 -0000

    The president made clear as his convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it.
  4. How Trump Is Using the Postal Service to Intervene in Elections

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:08:32 -0000

    Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
  5. Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:25:25 -0000

    The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).
  6. Influencers Invited to the Republican Midterm Convention Largely Avoided Talking About The Economy

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:55 -0000

    Online media stars eager to promote President Trump and Republicans worked to find a message that would resonate with an audience that is struggling with an affordability crisis.
  7. Houthis Seize a Key Red Sea Island, Threatening Yet Another Global Oil Route

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:27:41 -0000

    The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached the Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.
  8. Inside an Ancient Lebanese City Engulfed by War

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:25:47 -0000

    The Lebanese city of Tyre, one of the oldest metropolises in the world, has been left scarred.
  9. Israel Destroys Underground Hezbollah Base in Southern Lebanon

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:21:33 -0000

    The complex sat below Ali al-Taher ridge, a strategic hilltop that overlooks the region and that has seen intense fighting.
  10. Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:04:11 -0000

    A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.
  11. Elevated Inflation Keeps Pressure on Fed to Raise Rates

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:47:38 -0000

    The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report.
  12. AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:28:17 -0000

    If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.
  13. How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:31:02 -0000

    Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.
  14. The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:34:10 -0000

    For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
  15. Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy’s Mistrial Highlights a Divide in America

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:48:54 -0000

    The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided.
  16. How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:35:45 -0000

    The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.
  17. What Are Kalshi and Polymarket?

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:07:35 -0000

    Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them.
  18. Are Our Expectations Too High for Democracy? Adam Przeworski Thinks So.

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:03 -0000

    What is democracy, and is it in crisis?
  19. This Is Really Bad

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:53:45 -0000

    We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
  20. Twenty-Five Years

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:35:14 -0000

    We look back at Sept. 11, 2001.
  21. Boy, 15, Drifted for Days on an Overturned Boat Before Rescue

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:04:42 -0000

    The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said.
  22. The U.S. Was Never Going to Win the “War on Terror”

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In the twenty-five years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged several military campaigns against extremism around the world, resulting in the deaths of almost a million people. What has it accomplished?
  23. Tom Sachs Channels Chanel

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    At his downtown studio, the perennially provocative artist makes a lo-fi version of the brand’s flagship Parisian store.
  24. The Culture Wars Have Come for Lingerie

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The culture wars have come for lingerie as the right, once the advocates of promise rings and purity culture, embarks on a crusade to “Make America Hot Again.”
  25. How Hermès Unharnessed Fashion

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Under the stewardship of Nadège Vanhée, the artistic director of women’s wear, a house known for craftsmanship is exploring the risqué.
  26. Saudi Arabia’s Pursuit of Michelin Stardom

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The kingdom, seeking to rebrand as a culinary juggernaut, has bankrolled new restaurants and conscripted big-name chefs. Will it succeed?
  27. Troy Jackson Is Still Surprised That He’s Running for Senate

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:24:56 -0000

    The former state senator replaced Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee. But, as he reminded voters over Labor Day weekend, “it could have been anyone else.”
  28. Is the Democratic Party Still Too Woke?

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank.
  29. Remembrance of September 11th

    Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale. The twentieth century had ended, and the twenty-first had begun.
  30. The Warning Benjamin Netanyahu Ignored

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:29:01 -0000

    New reporting from Haaretz shows that, before October 7th, the Israeli Prime Minister was told to expect an “earthquake” from Gaza—and didn’t inform his security chiefs.
  31. Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:46:03 -0000

    After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.
  32. Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:30:10 -0000

    The retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run-up to October’s election.
  33. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  34. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  35. The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
  36. Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising.
  37. The Strange Case of Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The N.B.A.’s investigation found that the team circumvented the salary cap. The severe punishment that followed was decisive, but the story as it unfolded was harder to pin down.
  38. How Much Is the Iran War Costing Americans?

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A proper calculation must take in more than just the military costs.
  39. Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.
  40. “The Journey,” a Five-Part Audio Investigation from The New Yorker

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? Examining a scandal that threatens to undermine the surrogacy industry.
  41. A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention.
  42. 9/11 at Twenty-Five

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life.
  43. The Path to the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:38:14 -0000

    Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.
  44. How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.
  45. Trump’s Neocolonialism Will Backfire

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The President is touting his big Venezuelan oil deal, but his interventions abroad are stirring anger and having unintended consequences.
  46. The New Yorker Festival Releases Its Full 2026 Lineup

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Tickets are now on sale, with events taking place October 23rd through the 25th and featuring leading figures from the worlds of politics, literature, entertainment, and more.