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                        Deep Breath

                        Scientists used to think that life-sustaining oxygen could only be found near Earth’s surface, where plants and algae grow. Then they started finding it deep underground—raising profound questions about what else could be down there. James Dinneen reports from the bottom of a South African mine shaft.

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                Today’s Mix

                  Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

                  The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.

                    By Ruby Cramer

                  What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

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                  The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.

                    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

                  Perez Hilton and Our Live-Streaming Nightmare

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                  Nothing speaks more to our perma-tabloid social environment than the advent of the live stream, which allows ordinary people to become both the celebrity and the paparazzi of their own lives.

                    By Brady Brickner-Wood

                  Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

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                  A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.

                    By Stephania Taladrid

                      Inside Russia’s New Gulag

                      Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.

                        By Joshua Yaffa
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                The Lede

                A daily column on what you need to know.

                  What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

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                  Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.

                    By George Francis Lee

                  An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

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                  Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.

                    By Bernard Avishai

                  The Great Delegalization

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                  More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

                    By Dara Lind

                  A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue

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                  As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”

                    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

                  The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General

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                  A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.

                    By Ruth Marcus

                  Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?

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                  How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.

                    By Michelle Lhooq

                  Max Miller’s Victim Mentality

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                  The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.

                    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
                        Dispatches

                      The Doulas Who Help Us Die

                      In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.

                        By Alexandra Schwartz
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                The Critics

                    The Front Row

                  Could “Fast” Be, at Long Last, Rob Tregenza’s Breakout Film?

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                  A young auto racer brings speed and passion to small-town life in an unsung American auteur’s latest work.

                    By Richard Brody
                    On Television

                  The Pyrrhic Victories of “House of the Dragon”

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                  Season 3 of the “Game of Thrones” prequel ends with yet more bloodshed—and less of the charm that’s made Westeros worth visiting.

                    By Sarah Larson
                    The Current Cinema

                  “Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom

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                  The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.

                    By Justin Chang
                    Annals of Inquiry

                  G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

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                  A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.

                    By Shayla Love
                    Under Review

                  Claudia Rankine Plays Dead

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                  In “Triage,” the writer explores how we should respond—or, perhaps, not respond—to a world in crisis.

                    By Maya Binyam
                    Critics at Large

                  Critics’ Cult Classics: Hannah Goldfield on the Food World’s Secret Tastemakers

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                  The New Yorker food correspondent discusses the recipes and restaurants that have defined the culinary good life.

                    By Vinson Cunningham , Naomi Fry , Alexandra Schwartz , and more

                      What We’re Reading

                      A chatty novel about a writer navigating the season of life when friendships are tested by growing families and by the realization of ambition; an exploration of wilderness through various remote sites; and more.

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                    Fault Lines

                  If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

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                  The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.

                    By Jay Caspian Kang
                    The Financial Page

                  What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?

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                  The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.

                    By John Cassidy
                    Critic’s Notebook

                  Ariana Grande and the Disappointment of Diagnosis

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                  The pop star’s appearance has prompted fans to speculate that she’s suffering from an eating disorder. How should we talk about famous women’s bodies?

                    By Lauren Michele Jackson
                    Open Questions

                  What If We Can Never Trust A.I.?

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                  Like humans, the technology will never be perfect. The question is what imperfections we’re willing to tolerate.

                    By Joshua Rothman
                        Books

                      Hannah Arendt’s American Education

                      The writer’s political ideal—citizens appearing before one another as equals, engaging in dialogue and debate—had a counterpart in her spirited gatherings on the Upper West Side.

                        By David Denby
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                Flash Fiction

                A series of very short stories.

                  “Tributaries”

                  He heard her crying out in the dark. He couldn’t be sure if it was in sadness or joy or both.

                    By Kyle Edwards

                  “One and No One”

                  When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp.

                    By Gabriel Winslow-Yost

                  “The Window”

                  Yes, pulling the shade was my nightly task, and she’d never think to do it, but already I was half an hour away from home.

                    By Helen Phillips

                  “Why Would That Help?”

                  How generous his mother was to some people—but was she?

                    By Diane Williams

                  “Broken”

                  Usually, when I informed a guy that I had a type, that I couldn’t help whom I was or wasn’t attracted to, he moved on. Not you.

                    By Rabih Alameddine
                        Flash Fiction

                      “The Hobbler”

                      Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days.

                        By Ingeborg Bachmann

                Songs of Summer

                A series on music and memory.

                  “Something to Love”

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                  Jason Isbell’s tune, from 2017, is the song of summers past and summers to come.

                    By Casey Cep

                  “Get Lucky”

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                  The 2013 Daft Punk track was uncannily evocative of the late nineteen-seventies.

                    By Lucy Sante

                  “Padam Padam”

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                  Kylie Minogue’s 2023 track belongs to a category of solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of self-professed thirtysomething old folks.

                    By Lauren Michele Jackson

                  “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”

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                  This 2003 song by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett was part of a wave of hits that envisioned an escape to the seaside.

                    By Kelefa Sanneh

                  “No Letting Go”

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                  To a young d.j. in 2003, Wayne Wonder’s dancehall anthem seemed like a beacon from a better world.

                    By Hua Hsu
                        Profiles

                      The Delusions of John Roberts

                      The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.

                        By Margaret Talbot
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                Ideas

                  What Would It Mean to See a New Color?

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                  Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.

                    By Rivka Galchen

                  How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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                  Kate McLoughlin’s “Silence: A Literary History” covers everything from the empty halls of “Beowulf” to COVID lockdowns and beyond.

                    By Anthony Lane

                  The Myth of the Food Desert

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                  Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem?

                    By Kelefa Sanneh

                  Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die

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                  When cultural preservationists cast every extinction as murder, they can ignore speakers’ decisions—and the costs of keeping a fading tongue alive.

                    By Nikhil Krishnan
                        The New Yorker Interview

                      How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year

                      The début novelist behind “Yesteryear” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne Hathaway’s plans to adapt her best-seller for the screen.

                        By Rachel Syme

                Persons of Interest

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                  Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

                    By David Remnick
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                  Roy Cohn Took Donald Trump Under His Wing and Taught Him Everything He Knew

                    By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark

                  Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith

                    By Helen Rosner
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                  Sam Smith on Their New Album

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                        Essay

                      Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

                      For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.

                        By Anna Russell
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                Puzzles & Games

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                    Catalogues

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                    The Crossword

                    A puzzle that ranges in difficulty, with the occasional theme.

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                    A bite-size crossword, for a quick diversion.

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                    Shuffalo

                    Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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                    Laugh Lines

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                    Name Drop

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                        Letter from Beijing

                        The Future, Made in China

                        Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

                            By Evan Osnos
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                In Case You Missed It

                      Progress Report
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                      The Godmother of the “Conspiracy Mom”
                      Sixty years ago, a J.F.K.-assassination buff in Oklahoma provided a preview of a contemporary archetype.
                            By Jessica Winter
                      Under Review
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                      How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era
                      This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?
                            By Peter C. Baker
                      Critic’s Notebook
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                      Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
                      Anthony Fauci became a symbol of truth and integrity during the pandemic. In his diaries, he’s mostly talking about how he “butt called” Barbra Streisand.
                            By Molly Fischer
                      On Television
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                      Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards”
                      The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.
                            By Leo Lasdun

                      Fiction

                    “The Blight”

                      By Emma Cline
                      Illustration by Dadu Shin

                  And here was a town house, five stories high. The car idled in front. David looked out the window of the back seat, up at the stone façade. There was a guard, installed on the front steps, and a rash of flags mounted over the door, as if it were an embassy. The façade was lighted from below by the exterior lights that specified the building, separated it from the other night buildings. It was the flags that threw him.Continue reading »

                                This Week in Fiction
                                Emma Cline on Rendering the Human Experience

                The Talk of the Town

                    The Pictures
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                  Hannah Einbinder’s Tricks and Treats

                    By Emma Allen
                    Dept. of Surveillance
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                  I Spy with My Little Eye . . . a Spy

                    By Charles Bethea
                    Sign of the Times Dept.
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                  The World’s Borough Gets a New Slogan

                    By Ben McGrath
                    The Boards
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                  The Many Masks of Dan Hoyle

                    By Nathan Heller

                Daily Cartoon

                    “It was O.K.—the real world is scarier.”
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                Shouts & Murmurs

                Cartoons, comics, and other funny stuff. Sign up for the Humor newsletter.

                  Instructions for Pet-Sitting My Dog, Cerberus

                    By Brandon Follick

                  Eat the Lotus!

                    By Anthony Lane

                  A Mostly True History of Marco Rubio

                    By Christopher Gangemi

                  What My Life Would Be Like If All of Those Spam Texts Were Legit

                    By Natalie Wexler

                  Freelance Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected

                    By Larry Doyle

                  Memorandum from the National Review Committee for National Day Designations

                    By Jordan Roter

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